Cimarron

Watch: Cimarron

12/1/19602h 27m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ The Story Of A Man, A Land and A Love! ~

Overview:

The epic story of a family involved in the Oklahoma Land Rush of April 22, 1889.

Director:

Anthony Mann

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$6,000,000.00

Revenue:

$11,000,000.00

Key words:

based on novel or book
oklahoma
marriage
idealist
homesteader
land rush
1890s

Cast

Glenn Ford

~ as ~

Yancey 'Cimarron' Cravat

Maria Schell

~ as ~

Sabra Cravat

Anne Baxter

~ as ~

Dixie Lee

Arthur O'Connell

~ as ~

Tom Wyatt

Russ Tamblyn

~ as ~

William Hardy, The Cherokee Kid

Mercedes McCambridge

~ as ~

Mrs. Sarah Wyatt

Vic Morrow

~ as ~

Wes Jennings

Robert Keith

~ as ~

Sam Pegler

Charles McGraw

~ as ~

Bob Yountis

Harry Morgan

~ as ~

Jessie Rickey

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Reviews (1)

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talisencrw
Written 9 year(s) ago
8
Thinking as I have, upon seeing the two versions (on consecutive days) depicting the fourth (from April 22, 1889) of the five Oklahoma land rushes, I have to reconsider my initial impression that the 1931 film was marginally better than this, Mann's 1960 version. I realize I'm not a member of the Glenn Ford Fan Club by any stretch of the imagination, but his co-stars are WAY better, and in Anthony Mann, you find a master of both the Western and the epic format (his later 'The Fall of the Roman Empire' is one of my favourite films from the 60's).

A jar of beeswax could have out-acted Richard Dix's performance in the original (it's a dirty rotten shame HE even got nominated for Best Actor, in a year when MANY outstanding actors were overshadowed, not being so honoured), but I have to admit Ford was good, even if IMHO he didn't deserve the honour of being front-and-center of a 2 1/2 hour epic, and you can't beat what Maria Schell, Anne Baxter, Harry Morgan and Vic Morrow--just to name a select few--brought to the picture.

Some scenes in the 1931 original still work better, but overall I believe this is one case in which the remake is better than the original. I further would insist that had Mann not been fired and replaced by Charles Walters, it would have been a minor masterpiece.