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Cimarron

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Cimarron
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2hrs 10min
Genres:
Western,Drama
Release:
1930
Director:
Wesley Ruggles
Distributor:
Warner Home Video
Starring:
Richard Dix, Irene Dunne, Estelle Taylor  ...more
Synopsis: 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, Cravat establishes a muckraking newspaper, and with pistols in hand he becomes a widely respected (and widely feared) peacekeeper. ... Full Synopsis
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Hans J. Wollstein, AMG 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 and tends to dwarf the empire building sweep of Edna Ferber's original ... Full Review
Featured Cast
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Richard Dix
Yancey Cravat
Irene Dunne
Sabra Cravat
Estelle Taylor
Dixie Lee
Nance O'Neil
Felice Venable
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