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| Cimarron | 
| Directors: Anthony Mann, Charles Walters
Actors: Glenn Ford, Maria Schell, Anne Baxter, Arthur O'connell, Russ Tamblyn
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (14 reviews)
Sales Rank: 10559
Format: Dvd-video, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD
Running Time: 147 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: WARD036299D
UPC: 883929005109
EAN: 0883929005109
ASIN: B00005JP3X
Release Date: August 26, 2008
Theatrical Release Date: December 1960
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Description
et in Oklahoma from 1890-1915. A quarter century of change is seen through experiences of a pioneering couple determined to succeed in America. Based on a novel by Edna Ferber.
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The 1960 remake of Cimarron manages a slight improvement on the worst Best Picture (1931) in Academy Award history. Not that Edna Ferber's novel of pioneer Oklahoma was ever a movie natural. There's a plethora of themes--several species of prejudice, capitalism vs. charity, sons unhappily following in fathers' footsteps, and the irreconcilable tensions between a stability-craving wife and her footloose hero-husband--but the action is front-loaded and the husband (Glenn Ford) is offscreen for years at a time. Anthony Mann gets solo directorial credit, yet the movie seems more typical of his replacement, Charles Walters, a maker of pastel musicals. Most of the large cast comes and goes without establishing identities; Maria Schell's Sabra Cravat is tiresome as both ditz and pill. Photographed in CinemaScope and Metrocolor by Robert L. Surtees, the Oklahoma land rush is properly spectacular--though less impressive than John Ford's in Three Bad Men. --Richard T. Jameson
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 "Glenn Ford Series ... Cimarron (1960) ... MGM (2008)" September 23, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
MGM presents "CIMARRON" (December 1960) (147 mins/Color) (Dolby digitally remastered) -- Our story line and plot, 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 indians of their land and oil --- Anthony Mann (Director), Robert Surtees (Cinematographer) and John D. Dunning (Film Editor), with the striking memorable score from Franz Waxman completely stirring the veins of drama, which will keep the heart pounding from the opening scenes to the end credits --- One character is expanded considerably from the 1931 film. Edna May Oliver was Mrs. Wyatt who was a pioneer woman whose husband we never did meet --- Here Mrs. Wyatt is played by Mercedes McCambridge who is married to Arthur O'Connell who is very important to the story. They're this hardscrabble share cropper family who get a real scrubby piece of land at the beginning of the land rush, mainly because O'Connell falls off the stagecoach right at the beginning of the land rush and Mercedes runs across the starting line and she claims the land right at the line --- Anthony Mann went from making westerns to epics, and with this film, he was in the best of both worlds --- Director Anthony Mann who got fired towards the end of the film's production did a very good job with both the cast and the spectacle. The Oklahoma land rush scene was as thrillingly done as it was in the 1931 version --- All the characters present in Edna Ferber's saga of the transforming of Oklahoma from territory to state made it from the first film --- The cast includes also such fine people as Anne Baxter, Edgar Buchanan, Russ Tamblyn, Vic Morrow, Aline McMahon, Robert Keith, Charles McGraw, all ably filling out parts from the original version. The land rush scene is every bit as good as the first time around --- All of them meet during the Oklahoma land rush and while Glenn and Maria are the leads, the story of the film is what happens to all of them.
Under the production staff of:
Anthony Mann - Director
Edmund Grainger - Producer
Edna Ferber - Book Author
Arnold Schulman - Screenwriter
Robert Surtees - Cinematographer
Franz Waxman - Composer (Music Score) / Songwriter
Paul Francis Webster - Songwriter
John D. Dunning - Editor
George W. Davis - Art Director
Addison Hehr - Art Director
Henry W. Grace - Set Designer
Hugh Hunt - Set Designer
Otto Siegel - Set Designer
Walter Plunkett - Costume Designer
William J. Tuttle - Makeup
Arnold A. Gillespie - Special Effects
Robert R. Hoag - Special Effects
Lee Le Blanc - Special Effects
Ridgeway Callow - First Assistant Director
SPECIAL FEATURES:
BIOS:
1. Glenn Ford (aka: Gwyllyn Samuel Newton Ford)
Date of Birth: 1 May 1916 - Sainte-Christine, Quebec, Canada
Date of Death30 August 2006, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles County, California
2. Maria Schell
Date of Birth: 15 January 1926 - Vienna, Austria
Date of Death: 26 April 2005 - Preitenegg, Carinthia, Austria
3. Anne Baxter
Date of Birth: 7 May 1923 - Michigan City, Indiana
Date of Death: 12 December 1985 - New York City, New York
4. Anthony Mann (Director)
Date of Birth: 30 June 1906 - San Diego, California
Date of Death: 29 April 1967 - Berlin, Germany
the cast includes:
Glenn Ford ... Yancey 'Cimarron' Cravat (editor, 'Oklahoma Wigwam')
Maria Schell ... Sabra Cravat born Venable
Anne Baxter ... Dixie Lee (owner, Dixie's Social Club)
Arthur O'Connell ... Tom Wyatt
Russ Tamblyn ... William Hardy aka The Cherokee Kid
Mercedes McCambridge ... Mrs. Sarah Wyatt
Vic Morrow ... Wes Jennings (Cherokee Kid gang)
Robert Keith ... Sam Pegler (owner, 'Oklahoma Wigwam')
Charles McGraw ... Bob Yountis
Harry Morgan ... Jessie Rickey (printer) (as Henry {Harry} Morgan)
David Opatoshu ... Sol Levy (shopkeeper)
Aline MacMahon ... Mrs. Mavis Pegler
Lili Darvas ... Felicia Venable (Sabra's mother)
Edgar Buchanan ... Judge Neal Hefner
Mary Wickes ... Mrs. Neal Hefner
Royal Dano ... Ike Howes (photographer)
L.Q. Jones ... Millis (Yountis' henchman)
George Brenlin ... Hoss Barry - Cherokee Kid gang
Vladimir Sokoloff ... Jacob Krubeckoff (sculptor)
Hats off and thanks to Les Adams (collector/guideslines for character identification), Chuck Anderson (Webmaster: The Old Corral/B-Westerns.Com), Boyd Magers (Western Clippings), Bobby J. Copeland (author of "Trail Talk"), Rhonda Lemons (Empire Publishing Inc) and Bob Nareau (author of "The Real Bob Steele") as they have rekindled my interest once again for B-Westerns and Serials --- If you're into the memories of B-Westerns with high drama, this is the one you've been anxiously waiting for --- please stand up and take a bow Western Classics --- all my heroes have been cowboys!
Total Time: 147 mins on DVD ~ Warner Home Video ~ (8/26/2008)
one of my favorite westerns: beautiful and poetric September 9, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I know that this is one of the most under-rated westerns, but it also has its die-hard fans like myself who consider it a long-lost classic. I'm so happy it's finally on DVD. I think it's one of Anthony Mann's greatest films, much more sweeping and visually creative than the original, and I've always been moved by Maria Schriver's performance, and of course Glenn Ford who is always great. I think it is a particularly deep western- complex and interesting even when it fails at times... I think its epic ambition make it particularly enriching and fascinating to watch. Really beautiful at times...
 Much Overrated Western July 4, 2008
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
CIMARRON (1960) was MGM's big Cinemascope/colour remake of RKO's epic 1930
production of Edna Ferber's classic story of the same name. From a
screenplay by Arnold Schulman it was - I am loath to say - unevenly directed by Anthony Mann.
I am quite astonished - even aghast - that some reviewers on these pages
have given this film a five and even four star rating together with wholly exagerated claims that it is Mann's best and most underrated western. It is nowhere near his best western! Anthony Mann's best western is "Winchester 73" with "Naked Spur" running a close second! In fact "Cimarron" isn't even a good western! Not in the normal sense of what we regard as a good western such as "The Searchers", "Shane" or "Last Train from Gun Hill". Even Glenn Ford's "The Sheepman" is a far superior western to "Cimarron"! More light hearted sure but a good western just the same and much more fun to watch.
The first half of "Cimarron" isn't at all bad and contains the best staging of the 1889 Oklahoma land rush ever put on the screen and in widescreen too (though in 1992 Ron Howard made a good fist of it in "Far & Away"). But let's face it, the second half of the movie is relentlessly
boring and its 147 minutes just drags and drags. Firstly, Anne Baxter
who has third billing after the leading lady Maria Schell, is written out of the film which I suppose isn't very noticable since she didn't have
a very important role in the picture anyway. But then Glenn Ford -
the star of the movie - is also written out of the picture and only makes a brief and perfunctory reappearance just before the last reel and then he's gone again never to be seen in the rest of the picture. With its star gone from the movie the picture loses a lot of its balance and never regains the stature it had in the first half. Of course the story is that old chestnut of the mismatched couple who get hitched - she wants to play house and raise a family - while he wants to be charging up San Juan hill or somewhere winning battles where ever they are and never wants to return home to his lovely wife. Well, to my mind any man who could leave the stunningly beautiful Maria Schell - even for a long weekend - isn't playing with a full deck! Huh?
Nope, I'm sorry but I really don't think "Cimarron" is all that great a movie! There are some great things in it - besides the lovely Miss Schell there is the fine Cinemascope cinematography of Robert Surtees, the elaborate score by Franz Waxman (his anthem like choral Main Title and his recurring Main Theme plus his music for the land rush is outstanding) and the land rush itself is wonderfully exciting but there is nothing in the turgid second half of the picture that can persuade me to give this movie any more than a two star rating. Sad!!
 New DVD release planned for Summer 2008 May 26, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Maybe I was spoiled by the 1931 version of this film. In particular the very hammy portrayal of Yancey by Richard Dix has come to grow on me just as Irene Dunne's wonderful portrayal of Sabra. That film won an unbelievable Best Picture Oscar and even a Best Actor nomination for Dix. This movie is far superior to the original, especially with Glenn Ford as Yancey playing it straight this time. It confronts head-on the social issues that the original just skirts around, yet in doing this it just seems to take on too much. The film is about an ill-matched couple that settles in Oklahoma during the land rush years and how things progress between the two of them as the years roll on. Yancey is a wanderer at heart, and can't help taking off every time a new frontier beckons. His wife, Sabra, wants Yancey to settle down and raise a family. As a result of Yancey's adventurous ways it is left to Sabra to bear the burden of taking care of the business and the children. You'll probably like this one more if you haven't seen the original.
This film is being released on DVD both individually and as part of Warner Home Video Western Classics Collection (Escape from Fort Bravo / Many Rivers to Cross / Cimarron 1960 / The Law and Jake Wade / Saddle the Wind / The Stalking Moon). If you like western classics, buying the boxed set might be a more economical way to go. There are no extra features in the boxed set or the individual movies except a theatrical trailer per film.
Cimmaron August 21, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I don't remember when this movie reached the general public but I do remember that I was quite young at the time. I was in the Army and it was soon after I left high school(it only cost a quarter to see a movie then). I was impressed to see a story of a man who was so independent. He was so independentthat it worked against his family. However, the story depicted the the raw individualism of the typical westerner of our great country. Life and times were difficult in those days and westerners refected their moral beliefs in their daily lives. Yes, it did strain their family life but to this day it shows the strength of the western conservatism.
Things re changing but you can still see the ruggedness of the families who were born and raised here and are generations old.
I will get this movie and view it several more times before I die.
L. M. Dreyer
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