Cimarron
Terrific as all creation!
Cimarron (1931)
Timing:
2:3 (123 min)
5.585/10
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6.1/10
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Country
Production
Genre
Drama, Western, History
Budget
$1 433 000
Revenue
$1 383 000
Director
Actors
Scenario
Producer
Wesley Ruggles, William LeBaron
Operator
Composer
Artist
Audition
Editing
Short description
When the government opens up the Oklahoma territory for settlement, restless Yancey Cravat claims a plot of the free land for himself and moves his family there from Wichita. A newspaperman, lawyer, and just about everything else, Cravat soon becomes a leading citizen of the boom town of Osage. Once the town is established, however, he begins to feel confined once again, and heads for the Cherokee Strip, leaving his family behind. During this and other absences, his wife Sabra must learn to take care of herself and soon becomes prominent in her own right.
What's left behind the scenes
- The prototype for Jancy Cravat, a character played by Richard Dix, was the lawyer Temple Houston – the son of Sam Houston, whom Dix later played in the 1939 film 'Man of Conquest'.
- The filming of the scene illustrating the land run in Oklahoma in 1889 took a whole week. 5,000 extras and 28 camera operators participated in the work.
- One of the first sound films, almost all of the action of which takes place outdoors. For the filming, RKO Pictures studio purchased almost 4 square kilometers of land in California, where the film's artist Max Ree (1889-1953) built sets of a Wild West town depicting a fictional city in Oklahoma during the so-called 'land rush' of 1889.
- A record sum of $125,000 was paid for the rights to adapt the literary source.
- Yancy Cravat, the character played by Richard Dix, was modeled after Temple Houston, a lawyer—the son of Sam Houston, whom Dix later played in the 1939 film “Man of Conquest.”
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