Cimarron
A newspaper editor settles in an Oklahoma boom town with his reluctant wife at the end of the nineteenth century.
- Rated
- Approved
- Runtime
- 2h 3m
- Released
- 1931
- Country
- United States
Details
Release year: 1931
Storyline
A newspaper editor settles in an Oklahoma boom town with his reluctant wife at the end of the nineteenth century.
Top credits
Richard Dix — Yancey Cravat
Irene Dunne — Sabra Cravat
Estelle Taylor — Dixie Lee
Nance O'Neil — Felice Venable
Awards
3 wins & 4 nominations
See all awards →Did you know
• The celebrated land rush sequence took a week to film, using 5,000 extras, 28 cameramen, six still photographers, and 27 camera assistants. The scene is so iconic that, three decades later, when MGM remade the film, the camera angles for the land rush sequence remained almost identical to the original.
• The first Western to win a Best Picture Oscar. It would be another 59 years before a Western would win the Academy Award for Best Picture again when Dances with Wolves (1990) took the main prize.
• Yancey Cravat, the character played by Richard Dix, was based on real-life lawyer and gunfighter Temple Houston - the son of Sam Houston, whom Dix played in Man of Conquest (1939) and upon whom the 1960s western TV series Temple Houston (1963) was based.
User reviews
45 reviews have come before mine and I will try to write new stuff and not bore you with repeating what others have said.
Quantity - not quality
Does not play well to a modern audience
Technical specs
- Sound mix
- Mono
- Aspect ratio
- 1.20 : 1
- Color
- Black and White
