Cimarron
Summary:
Cimarron was the first Western to win the Oscar for Best Picture--and, until Dances with Wolves in 1990, the only one. The film begins on April 22, 1889, the opening day of the great Oklahoma Land Rush on the Cherokee Strip. Boisterous Yancey Cravat (Richard Dix) is cheated out of his land claim by the devious Dixie Lee (Estelle Taylor). Instead of becoming a homesteader, Cra... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Richard Dix - (Yancey Cravat)
Irene Dunne - (Sabra Cravat)
Estelle Taylor - (Dixie Lee)
Nance O'Neil - (Felice Venable)
William Collier, Jr. - (The Kid)
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Review:
According to Hollywood lore, Cimarron's famous Oklahoma Land Rush sequence was filmed near Bakersfield, CA, and included 47 camera operators and 5,000 dress extras. The scene, which to a modern viewer suggests some heavy borrowing from William S. Hart's similar sequence in the silent Tumbleweeds (1925), remains Cimarron's centerpiece an... Continue >>
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