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	Cimarron
		After establishing the town of Osage, Yancey abandons both the town and his family for the unabashed adventurism of the Cherokee Strip, a move that forces Sabra to reassess her loyalties, defy her husband's wandering heart and take on the respectability and prominence of a great citizen herself.
		Emerging at the dawn of the sound era, the film is maudlin by today's standards and full of stagy set pieces that are static and not terribly compelling.
		Warner's DVD transfer on Cimarron is quite adequate given that the film is pushing the 90 year benchmark.
	www.mediascreen.com /c/cimarron.htm (412 words)

	Cimarron - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Cimarron Territory was an unrecognized name for "No Man's Land," unsettled areas of the West and Midwest, especially lands once inhabited by Native American tribes such as the Cherokee and Sioux.
		Filming began in the summer of 1930 at the Jasmin Quinn Ranch outside of Los Angeles, California.
		The film was premiered first in New York City on January 26, 1931, to much praise, and a Los Angeles premiere followed on February 6th.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cimarron_(1931_movie) (1205 words)

	Film Appreciation - Other Westerns
		The film is notable for a number of reasons, not the least of which was its exceptional cinematography (William H. Daniels), and the fact that it facilitated the great revival of westerns in the 1950s.
		The film is a sprawling epic that depicts the development of the West throughout the adventures of one family.
		The film is Sergio Leone at his violent best as he chronicles the story of three former enemies who have now become untrustworthy allies in their quest to recover a hidden payroll at the conclusion of the Civil War.
	www.twyman-whitney.com /film/genre/otherwesterns.html (4045 words)

	Cimarron - QuickSeek Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Crooked Creek and North Fork are among the Cimarron's tributaries.
		By today's standards, the film is considered racially insensitive, though these views were typical for the time the film was produced.
		Cimarron was the first of three epics (including El Cid and The Fall of the Roman Empire) Mann directed.
	cimarron.quickseek.com (1504 words)

	Greatest Films Reviews
		Supplemental lists of great films - Another 100 Greatest Films and Third 100 Greatest Films - have also been selected and those films are included here.
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	Cimarron (1931) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Cimarron received excellent critical reviews, but it's initial financial failure was blamed on it being released during one of the darkest periods of the Great Depression.
		Seeing Cimarron is comparable to looking at old pictures, with the difference that they move and speak.
		Cimarron, nowadays, is not a film for anyone, only for those who have curiosity about old movies and what they show us about the past.
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	Poobi Cimarron (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Cimarron, the county seat of Gray [GY] county, is on the north bank of the (often waterless) Arkansas...
		Cimarron Guitars was established in 1980 on a high, dry plateau in Southwestern Colorado, near the town...
		Cimarron is a historic place not a ghost town, and the town is inextricably a part of the...
	www.poobi.com /web/Cimarron (1992 words)

	Cimarron: Special Edition (1931)
		The film skips from one scenario to another with little fluidity or logic, and it barely bothers to develop its characters to any notable degree.
		The film flies through the years with abandon and alights on the various eras so briefly that they mean little to us.
		Cimarron appears in an aspect ratio of 1.33:1 on this single-sided, double-layered DVD; due to those dimensions, the image has not been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
	www.dvdmg.com /cimarron.shtml (1265 words)

	DVD Savant Review: Cimarron
		Cimarron is one of the first of the multi-generational Edna Ferber stories to reach the screen and an early Best Picture Oscar winner.
		Cimarron is dedicated to the notion that the builders of the west were ennobled visionaries looking for a new Utopia on the plains, searching for solutions to "social conditions" like prejudice and intolerance.
		Edna Ferber was lucky that Cimarron was such a blockbuster hit, for Hollywood returned time and again to her sprawling tales, epics that covered generations of American empire-builders: Come and Get It, Showboat, Giant, Ice Palace.
	www.dvdtalk.com /dvdsavant/s1885cima.html (1417 words)

	dOc DVD Review: Cimarron (1931)
		One of the more notorious, but seldom-seen, of the film adaptations of her work is the 1930/31 Best Picture Oscar winner, Cimarron, a tale of the settling of Oklahoma with strongly moralistic roots.
		Unlike others of the period, this film features live sound with an often rapidly moving camera, such as a surprising tracking shot that follows Irene Dunne as she races across a dusty street.
		Cimarron has high goals and a reasonably solid first half, but it really needed another half hour or more to tell the balance of its story in a coherent manner and with better character development.
	www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=8321 (1311 words)

	Cimarron Film Review - The Oscar Guy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Cimarron is a sweeping epic typical of the style that would often whisk Oscar voters into bygone eras and earn the title of Best Picture of the year.
		The film opens in 1888 when president Benjamin Harrison (who didn’t take office until the following year) opened two million acres of the Oklahoma territory up for settlement (either the date the film cites is incorrect or the president it lists is).
		Though the film portrays Yancey as the lead character, we discover that Sabra has far more to do with the story than her roaming spouse.
	www.oscarguy.com /Reviews/1931/Cimarron.html (496 words)

	Cimarron (1931) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		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.
		"Cimarron" is an abbreviated history of a land which was once wild and untamed that slowly became modern by the early-20th Century.
		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.
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	1931 in film - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		That's how there are 3 'Best Actor', 2 'Best Actress' awards for 1931 films.
		This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about 1931 in film contains research on
		1931 in film, Events, Top grossing films, Academy Awards, Movies released, Short film series, Animated short film series, Births, Deaths, 1931, 1931 films and Years in film.
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	CIMARRON (1931) - SPECIAL EDITION DVD
		Like its male lead, Yancey Cravat (Richard Dix), the film is beguiled by the idea of rising American "civilization" to the detriment of the idea of permanent settlement.
		Indeed, the film is embarrassedly aware of Sabra's plight, especially when she's blown over for five years as another western settlement attracts her husband's will-to-thrill.
		Dedicated to watching the town grow from a jerrybuilt free-for-all into the western town of legend, the film is frankly sentimental and a little ridiculous for it.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/cimarron.htm (678 words)

	CIMARRON (1931) - SPECIAL EDITION DVD
		Like its male lead, Yancey Cravat (Richard Dix), the film is beguiled by the idea of rising American "civilization" to the detriment of the idea of permanent settlement.
		Indeed, the film is embarrassedly aware of Sabra's plight, especially when she's blown over for five years as another settlement attracts her husband's will-to-thrill.
		Dedicated to watching the town grow from a jerrybuilt free-for-all into the western town of legend, the film is frankly sentimental and a little ridiculous for it.
	filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/cimarron.htm (685 words)

	REELINSIDER.COM - CIMARRON (1931)
		Based as it is on Edna Ferber's best-selling novel of the same name the film is closely associated with her romantic vision of masculine heroism and the conflict between individual conquest and advancing civilization.
		This opening sequence, one of the film's few truly terrific moments, establishes Yancey's romance with adventure and positions him among western characters now familiar to us from years of repetition in movie serials, TV shows and legions of subsequent films.
		Among other films not recognized by the Academy are such classics as City Lights, Little Caesar, The Public Enemy and The Blue Angel and in there absence from competition is brought to question the Academy's motives and voting practice for the picture of the year honors for 1930-1931.
	www.reelinsider.com /cimarron.html (975 words)

	Academy Awards Best Picture
		Films inspired by real-life individuals (especially when they face adversity) usually do very well in terms of nominations, and often win - especially if they are of epic proportion.
		These are G-rated films specifically made for young kids (they are often appropriate for families and adults too).
		Pure love stories (not including musicals) which often have strong romantic subplots are popular Best Picture winners and nominees during escapist periods in American history, such as the Depression Era and World War II, the 50's, and the turn of the modern century.
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	Cimarron, 1930/31
		Cimarron addresses a few of the issues of the old west, but taking a stance that would only be comfortable to the viewers of its day.
		Plenty of people in 1931, were around to remember this event, and at the time, the old west was a symbol of the American spirit.
		His name has been forgotten over the years, and sadly, as film fans begin to rediscover him, a third of his films no longer survive, due to decomposition.
	www.angelfire.com /film/oscars/cimarron.htm (786 words)

	Cimarron (1931) - Trivia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		A then-record $125,000 was paid for the film rights to the novel.
		The land rush scene took a week to film, using 5,000 extras, 28 cameramen, 6 still photographers and 27 camera assistants.
		Cimarron received excellent critical reviews, but it's initial financial failure was blamed on it being released during one of the darkest periods of the Great Depression.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0021746/trivia (344 words)

	VHS : Cimarron (1931) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		One of the best films ever made in America..a milestone of the transition from silent films to talkies.
		I just watched this movie for the first time, and considering the period, this has got to be one of the most progressive films ever to come out of the 1930's.
		Yes, like most, I inwardly cringed at the sight of `Isaiah' whistling and shining shoes during the opening credits, but I really felt that the character wound up being much more than a stereotypical clown (this is NOT Gone With The Wind).
	www.prep4usmle.com /6301967720/Cimarron.htm (472 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : 1931 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		1931 is a common year starting on Thursday.
		Aviation - Rail transport - Radio - Science
		Protocol Amending the Agreements, Conventions and Protocols on Narcotic Drugs concluded at The Hague on 23 January 1912, at Geneva on 11 February 1925 and 19 February 1925, and 13 July 1931, at Bangkok on 27 November 1931 and at Geneva on 26 June 193 (Source)
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /1931 (1420 words)

	Film Review - Cimarron (1930-1931)
		Only three of the 78 Oscar-winning films have been Westerns: "Cimarron" in 1930-1, Kevin Costner's "Dances With Wolves" in 1990, and Clint Eastwood's "Unforgiven," in 1992.
		Directed by Wesley Ruggles, "Cimarron" is based on Edna Ferber's best-selling book about the opening of the Oklahoma frontier, from the late 1890s to 1940.
		Facing hard financial times, RKO took a gamble with "Cimarron," which covers four decades in the Cravat family and recreates the Oklahoma land rush circa 1888.
	emanuellevy.com /article.php?articleID=4115 (309 words)

	Amazon.com: Cimarron: DVD: Richard Dix,Irene Dunne,Estelle Taylor,Nance O'Neil,William Collier Jr.,Roscoe Ates,George ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Yancey brings his young bride Sabra to the wild Oklahoma territory to taste the adventure, crusade for social justice, and leave his family for years at a time.
		Modern viewers will have trouble making it past one or two horrifying racist caricatures at the start, made doubly odd because of the film's intended message of tolerance.
		From there Cimarron, based on the bestselling epic by Giant and Show Boat novelist Edna Ferber, traces the generations-spanning saga of that land.
	www.amazon.com /Cimarron-Richard-Dix/dp/B000BYA4HE (576 words)

	Cimarron - Rotten Tomatoes
		Too bad the rest of the film doesn't measure up to the opening.
		Inexplicably winning Best Picture, Cimarron is one of three Westerns (Dances With Wolves and Unforgiven are the other) to win the Oscar.
		Taken by itself, as a film, without moral conundrums, it’s actually a fairly engaging yarn.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/1004177-cimarron (446 words)

	Richard Dix
		This led to a long-term contract with Paramount Pictures, where Dix starred in a string of rugged adventure films which defined his standard screen characterization: the modest, dependable, strong and silent man of action who was moved to violence only when there was no other recourse.
		Switching from Paramount to RKO Radio in the early talkie period, Dix starred as empire-building Yancey Cravat in RKO's only Oscar-winning film, Cimarron (1931).
		This film, for which Dix was himself Oscar-nominated, would remain the high water mark of his talkie career, which gradually diminished into inexpensive programmers and westerns.
	www.djangomusic.com /actor_bio.asp?pid=P+19343 (264 words)

	1931 - Gurupedia
		1928 1929 1930 - 1931 - 1932 1933 1934
		Cimarron, starring Richard Dix and Irene Dunne opens in New York City.
		May 1 - The first wedding is broadcast on television, on
	www.gurupedia.com /1/19/1931.htm (517 words)

	Cimarron - Moviefone
		Synopsis: Cimarron was the first Western to win the Oscar for Best Picture--and, until Dances with Wolves in 1990, the only one.
		This is a remake of the 1931 movie that won best picture and i haven't seen that one so i can't tell...
		Cimarron (1931) Cimarron on IMDb: Movies, TV, Celebs, and more...
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	EDSITEment - Lesson Plan
		Cimarron County, Oklahoma (photograph by Arthur Rothstein), available on American Memory
		The farming practices during that time — over-plowing and over-grazing, combined with the droughts occurring between 1931 and 1939 — were partly responsible for the environmental catastrophe that created the Dust Bowl.
		John Ford's classic film of John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath" is widely available for rental.
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	Classic & Vintage Film Posters (C - D)
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	Academy Award® Winners and Nominees - Oscar® List at Movies Unlimited
		One of the first and most powerful war films ever made, director Lewis Milestone's adaptation of the Erich Maria Remarque novel follows a group of idealistic young German soldiers in the final days of the Great War.
		The classic screwball comedy from Frank Capra was the first film to win the five major Academy Awards, with Clark Gable as a news-hungry reporter chasing runaway rich girl Claudette Colbert from Miami to New York, falling in love in between their hilarious bickering.
		The Oscar-winning Best Film of 1947 stars Gregory Peck as a magazine writer who researches an article on anti-Semitism and learns first-hand about prejudice when he poses as a Jew.
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