Cimarron [videorecording] / Radio Pictures presents ; by Edna Ferber ; produced by William LeBaron ; a Wesley Ruggles production ; screen version & dialogue by Howard Estabrook.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: 65287 | Warner Home VideoPublication details: Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, [2006]Edition: Special edDescription: 1 videodisc (123 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 inISBN: - 0790748363
- Container title: Edna Ferber's Cimarron
- Photography, Edward Cronjager ; editor, William Hamilton.
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Main Library | DVD | WESTERN Cimarron | Available | 33111007374453 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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. He also displays a compassionate streak by coming to the defense of Dixie Lee, who is about to be arrested for prostitution. Cravat's insistence on sticking his nose into everyone's affairs drives a wedge between him and his young wife Sabra (Irene Dunne), but she stands by him--until he deserts her and her children, ever in pursuit of new adventures. Sabra takes over the newspaper herself, and with the moral support of her best friend, Mrs. Wyatt (Edna May Oliver), she creates a powerful publishing empire. Cimarron makes the mistake of placing most of the action early in the film, so that everything that follows the spectacular opening land-rush sequence may feel anti-climactic. While it's always enjoyable to watch Irene Dunne persevering through the years, it's rather wearing to sit through the overblown performance of Richard Dix, who seems to think that he can't make a point unless it's at the top of his lungs. Cimarron creaks badly when seen today, but it still outclasses the plodding 1960 remake. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Based on the novel by Edna Ferber.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1931.
Special features: vintage musical short 'The devil's cabaret'; classic cartoon 'Red-headed baby'.
Photography, Edward Cronjager ; editor, William Hamilton.
Richard Dix (Yancey Cravat), Irene Dunne (Sabra Cravat), Estelle Taylor (Dixie Lee), Nance O'Neil (Felice Venable), William Collier, Jr. (The Kid), Rosco Ates (Jesse Rickey), George E. Stone (Sol Levy), Stanley Fields (Lon Yountis), Robert McWade (Louis Hefner), Edna May Oliver (Mrs. Tracy Wyatt), Nancy Dover (Donna Cravat), Eugene Jackson (Isaiah).
Epic western about the Cravat family settling the Oklahoma prairie. Yancy Cravat is a newspaperman and lawyer who helps found the town of Osage. An adventurer, he finds town-life stifling and seeks his thrills even further into the frontier. His wife ends up becoming a town leader when his absences leave her no other choice.
Not rated.
DVD, region 1, full screen presentation; Dolby Digital mono.
English dialogue with optional English, French or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned.