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Cimarron (1931)
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9 February 1931 (USA)
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World's Mightiest Show! more
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A newspaper editor settles in an Oklahoma boom town with his reluctant wife at the end of the nineteenth century. full summary | full synopsis
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Won 3 Oscars.
Another 1 win
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4 nominations
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Movie Make-up's Royal Family To Be Honoured On Walk Of Fame
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(From WENN. 28 September 2008, 6:12 PM, PDT)
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The State of Oklahoma Gets the Red Carpet.
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Richard Dix | ... | Yancey Cravat |
 | Irene Dunne | ... | Sabra Cravat |
| Estelle Taylor | ... | Dixie Lee |
| Nance O'Neil | ... | Felice Venable |
| William Collier Jr. | ... | The Kid |
| Roscoe Ates | ... | Jesse Rickey (as Rosco Ates) |
| George E. Stone | ... | Sol Levy |
| Stanley Fields | ... | Lon Yountis |
| Robert McWade | ... | Louis Hefner |
| Edna May Oliver | ... | Mrs. Tracy Wyatt |
| Judith Barrett | ... | Donna Cravat (as Nancy Dover) |
| Eugene Jackson | ... | Isaiah |
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131 min
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1.20 : 1 more
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Mono (RCA Photophone System)
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USA:Approved (PCA #1029: 2 July 1935 for re-release) |
USA:Passed (National Board of Review)
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One of the extras was Nino Cochise, the actual grandson of the great Chiricahua chief Cochise. He and his good friend Apache Bill Russell were in this movie as well as several others.
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Anachronisms: During the period of the film set in 1907, Yancey is the Progressive Party's candidate for governor of Oklahoma. The Progressive Party did not form until 1912, and then disbanded after Theodore Roosevelt's unsuccessful third party candidacy that year.
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Yancy Cravat:
Louie Heffner, as coroner do your official duty and remove the body.
Louie Heffner: Okay, Yancy. It was self-defense and justifiable homicide. This town needs a Boot Hill and I'll start it with this burial.
Yancy Cravat: Fellow citizens! Under the circumstances, we will forego the sermon and conclude this service with a brief word of prayer.
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Louie Heffner: Okay, Yancy. It was self-defense and justifiable homicide. This town needs a Boot Hill and I'll start it with this burial.
Yancy Cravat: Fellow citizens! Under the circumstances, we will forego the sermon and conclude this service with a brief word of prayer.
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Referenced in The Ten-Year Lunch: The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table (1987)
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The outstanding but admittedly dated "Cimarron" dazzled audiences so much that it was a runaway Best Picture Oscar winner in 1931. The film is novelist Edna Ferber's epic tale of the early American settlements of Oklahoma from 1889 and goes to the economic unrest of the Stock Market crash of 1929. Richard Dix (Oscar-nominated) immediately moves his family out to the untamed land and starts a new life. Wife Irene Dunne (Oscar-nominated) has doubts not only about the new land, but also about her husband's adventurous nature. Dix is an individualist with itchy feet and thus he comes and goes as he pleases, but always seems to come through for his family and his adopted state when the chips are down. "Cimarron" is an abbreviated history of a land which was once wild and untamed that slowly became modern by the early-20th Century. The views upon African-Americans and Native Americans is given much air time here. Ferber's equally riveting "Giant" posed similar questions towards Texas' views of women and Hispanic Americans. She was a truly gifted writer and her novels were both adapted into stunning motion picture experiences. Wesley Ruggles' (Oscar-nominated) direction is a bit prodding and the film does stall a bit due to its length, but overall "Cimarron" is an important American movie that if nothing else created the legitimate Western genre. 4.5 out of 5 stars.