
The epic saga of a frontier family, Cimarron starts with the Oklahoma Land Rush on 22 April 1889. The Cravet family builds their newspaper Oklahoma Wigwam into a business empire and Yancey Cravet is the adventurer-idealist who, to his wife's anger, spurns the opportunity to become governor since this means helping to defraud the native Americans of their land and resources.... (Full plot summary below)
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The epic saga of a frontier family, Cimarron starts with the Oklahoma Land Rush on 22 April 1889. The Cravet family builds their newspaper Oklahoma Wigwam into a business empire and Yancey Cravet is the adventurer-idealist who, to his wife's anger, spurns the opportunity to become governor since this means helping to defraud the native Americans of their land and resources.
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| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzTedious remake of the 1931 Wesley Ruggles version of Edna Ferber's classic. |
| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyA dull, inferior remake of the 1930 Oscar-winner Cimarron, this time starring Glenn Ford and Maria Schell. |
| User ReviewDaniel Aawesome western! although with some uncoincidences, mostly on the aging of some characters, the film is still marvelous, and depicts really well the struggle of the pioneers searching for a new life in their new given away lands. |
| User ReviewZoran SAn engaging epic. mostly due to Mann's direction and Glenn Ford's performance. It's looses steam toward the end but the 2.5 hours don't really drag. |
| User ReviewGrant SA true masterpiece from start to finish. I enjoyed every single moment!!!! |
| User ReviewWilliam WThinking 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. |
| User ReviewJackson SThis sprawling western epic is a remake of the Best Picture winner from the early 1930's. Very well produced. The costumes, sets, cinematography all all top notch. Way too long though. Glenn Ford does a fine job but Maria Schell comes off as abrasive, naggy and bitchy and it really hurts the film. |
| User ReviewNicolas AAnother TCM staple. Glenn Ford is great, as usual. The thing I like about it is the will-he, won't-he narrative about Yancey - I won't spoil the ending, but there's a strange kind of modernity about it. |
| User ReviewNeil GThis was a good-ish film at a time when it would have been hard to make an epic like this was. Hard to rate it when you can only compare to later films. I'm sure it was great at the time. |
| User Reviewjay nSprawling, epic but overlong western much changed from the excellent novel and not for the better. Sabra, the lead character, was in the book a naive but resourceful woman who became through necessity a tower of strength and who was understanding and willing to lose whatever prejudices she had quickly while forging a life for herself and her children in the wilds of Oklahoma since Yancy, her husband was a born wanderer and would disappear for years at a time. In the movie she's a bigoted simpering harpy. That was her daughter Donna, who is completely missing from the film, in the book apparently they grafted those qualities on to her for the movie. A shame to ruin a great character that way. However the movie does have a good cast and beautiful photograpy, the land rush is very impressive, overall though a disappointment. |