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  Cimarron: Special Edition (1931)
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.
The movie lacked consistency and jumped from sharp to soft frequently.
Released in 1931, this 16-minute and 22-second piece tells a minor story in which the Devil uses a flashy floorshow to recruit new sinners.
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 Cimarron (1931 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cimarron is a 1931 film directed by Wesley Ruggles and based on the Edna Ferber novel Cimarron.
At the 1931 Academy Awards ceremony at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, Cimarron took high honors.
Cimarron also took a stereotypical view of African Americans, who were portrayed as illiterate and subservient.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cimarron_(1931_movie)   (471 words)

  
 Cimarron (1931)
Dunne is left behind to run the newspaper, and her character grows from a timid housewife to become Osage's leading citizen.
"Cimarron" cost RKO $1.5 million to make, making it one of the most expensive films of its era.
"Cimarron" is a mediocre film that is made watchable by Dix's ridiculous performance.
members.tripod.com /~criticsheaven/brian_koller/cimarron.htm   (342 words)

  
 Movie Mirrors Index (with ratings)
Arrowsmith (1931 b 99') En: 6, Ed: 7
Broadminded (1931 b 72') En: 5, Ed: 4
Cimarron (1931 b 124') En: 7 Ed: 7
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 Cimarron (1931) - Movie Reviews at TopTenReviews.com
Cimarron (1931) is ranked the #5,561 best movie of all time.
In 1931 you didn't just go out to the desert, line up 500 horses and covered wagons, and recreate the Oklahoma land rush.
Inexplicably winning Best Picture, Cimarron is one of three Westerns (Dances With Wolves and Unforgiven are the other) to win the Oscar.
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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.
At the beginning of the movie, he is the fan boy, hanging from the chandelier, fanning the folks at the dining table.
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.
www.angelfire.com /film/oscars/cimarron.htm   (786 words)

  
 At-A-Glance Film Reviews: Cimarron (1931)
What's so great about this man? The movie is in love with the guy, but it rarely has anything substantial to back him up.
Released in 1931, Cimarron is closer in time to the times this movie depicts than to the present.
But few movies from 1931 and even before are so badly dated.
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 Amazon.com: Cimarron (1931): Video: Richard Dix,Irene Dunne,Estelle Taylor,Nance O'Neil,William Collier Jr.,Roscoe ...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
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.
For those of you who judge a movie by the degree to which it beats a political or social drum, there is much here to admire.
I think a large part of why this movie doesn't descend into the sludge of cinematic slop is because the characters are all flawed, and in those flaws the viewer cannot help but recognize a touch of human frailty.
www.amazon.com /Cimarron-Richard-Dix/dp/6301967720   (1827 words)

  
 BOOKS
Cimarron Kid, by Paul Conklin, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1973.
Cimarron Bride, by Catherine Creel, New York: Kensington, 1989.
Cimarron, by Edna Ferber, New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1930.
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 dOc DVD Review: Cimarron (1931)
For an early talkie, Cimarron is quite spectacular, and one suspects that the technical achievements of the production counted for more than any particular merits of the film itself.
But Cimarron has the flaw of much flimsier and one-note supporting characters who are there mainly to reflect off of Dix and Dunne.
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   (1310 words)

  
 CIMARRON (1931) - SPECIAL EDITION DVD
Not exactly a proper western (but not exactly any other kind of genre piece), Cimarron is sort of a thesis-statement historical melodrama, establishing the greatness of the west's upswing while capping off with distinct dissatisfaction over its levelling off.
Sabra persists in pleading for home and hearth against the concepts of danger and justice, but the movie never quite does away with the idea that she might have a glimmer of a point.
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.
www.filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/cimarron.htm   (678 words)

  
 Cimarron Film Review - The Oscar Guy   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The desire to be a part of the ever expanding frontier leads one newspaper man in search of a new life in the Wild West.
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.
Cimarron remained the only Western to win Best Picture for nearly 60 years until Dances With Wolves walked away with the same trophy.
www.oscarguy.com /Reviews/1931/Cimarron.html   (496 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...
This is a movie of passionate love between two people and of the passion both had for building.
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 Don Collier Actor/Actress Video at Video Hills.com
The first movie that my wife watched in one sitting and wanted to see again the next evening....
I'd never watched this movie until a few nights ago, but the description sounded interesting and...
This movie features a fine cast, an intriguing story with likable characters, and a very...
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 TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES
Some movie projects, no matter how promising, seem doomed to one form of failure or another.
But it was an expensive movie to make, and the studio lost a pile of money on it.
Cimarron follows the plight of Sabra (Schell), a rich girl from the East who journeys to the untamed West beside her dashing husband, Yancey (Ford).
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 HPR1.com / Film   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Large-scale movie spectacles were once the hallmark of Hollywood extravagance.
There is also a new 37-minute documentary about the making of the film (viewable in six independent segments or all at once), as well as a 1956 10-minute featurette of DeMille himself talking about its production, and trailers from its 1960s and late 1980s theatrical re-releases.
Coincidentally, the Turner Classic Movies cable channel has been devoting all this week to DeMille, premiering a new documentary and showing many of his films, including "The Sign of the Cross," "The Crusades," and several hard-to-find early works made before he moved into the epic genre.
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 Cutter Pads
MC513 The Cimarron carries our heaviest blanket, 5.5 lbs, It is for this reason many of our customers use this pad when purchasing one of our six tooling designs.
"Cimarron" was a name used to describe any unsettled area of the West.
It was also the name given to the dry route from Cimarron, Kansas to Santa Fe.
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 The List Page at Silent Movie Crazy - Silent Film Lists Best Worst Favorites
We were quite near the front of the line for the second screening, so ended up with nice seats in the front row of the first balcony and we all loved the movie.
When the movie was over I noticed him slip quietly off into the darkened night, sort of in the direction of the La Brea Tar Pits.
The "stranger" relates the story of the four horsemen to Valentino and his manservant-partner-guy and we see images of the horsemen on screen as the story is told, including my favorite shot - the four horsemen riding across the screen and right into the camera.
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 JR.com: Cimarron (1931) - DVD in Movies: Westerns:
The Best Picture of 1931 chronicles one family's experiences in the restless days of settling the American West.
Adapted from Edna Ferber's sweeping novel, the story tracks the growth of an Oklahoma town and the homesteaders who came there from the 1890s through the 1920s.
Online prices, selection, descriptions, specifications and images generally match our retail stores, but may vary and are subject to change without notice.
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 Cimarron (1931)
He was one of the few silent actors who successfully made the transition to talking pictures.
People must keep in mind that the sound quality, sets, etc. were all still relatively new in 1931.
Actors and directors were accustomed to silent movies.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0021746   (453 words)

  
 Cimarron (1931) Movie Overview ~ Cast and Crew, Box-Office, Trailer, Pictures, Synopsis, Release Date - ...
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 Cimarron movie posters and memorabilia at MovieGoods
Director Mann's remake of the 1931 Academy Award-winning film about frontier life in Oklahoma.
Movie Poster - Insert - Style A 1960
Movie Poster - 3 Sheet - Style A 1960
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Dix is an individualist with itchy feet and thus he comes and goes as he pleases, but always seems to come through for his family and his adopted state when the chips are down.
She was a truly gifted writer and her novels were both adapted into stunning motion picture experiences.
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 REELINSIDER.COM - CIMARRON (1931)
Described as being, "Terrific As All Creation", Cimarron is a decidedly slight movie important only for having won the 4th Academy Award and not for any staying power across the passage of decades.
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.
Not only is Cimarron laughable, it's confusing about the central themes of social progress and it's hopelessly devoted to silent film forms and conventions.
www.reelinsider.com /cimarron.html   (975 words)

  
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Besides all the movies he "only" starred in ("Magnum Force", "Escape from Alcatraz", "Tightrope", "The Dead Pool" and "In the Line of Fire"), there are a lot of successful movies he also directed.
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 Meadville Tribune - Oklahoma Run better novel than Cimarron
I wrote in 1960, when the second major motion picture based on the Oklahoma novel “Cimarron” appeared, that “Oklahoma Run” by Alberta Wilson Constant was a better novel in some ways.
“’Cimarron’ (published in 1930) is properly displaced by ‘Oklahoma Run' (published in 1955) as the premier Sooner chronicle,” Gibson wrote.
She was an honors graduate of Oklahoma City University and took professional writing courses from Stanley Vestal and Foster-Harris at OU.
www.meadvilletribune.com /opinion/cnhinscolumns_story_142090142.html   (622 words)

  
 CIMARRON (1931) - SPECIAL EDITION DVD
Not exactly a proper western (but not exactly any other kind of genre piece), Cimarron is sort of a thesis-statement historical melodrama, establishing the greatness of the West's upswing while capping off with distinct dissatisfaction over its levelling off.
Sabra persists in pleading for home and hearth against the concepts of danger and justice, but the movie never quite does away with the idea that she might have a glimmer of a point.
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.
filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/cimarron.htm   (685 words)

  
 1931 Chronicle
Cimarron was voted an Academy Award® as the best picture of the year.
The problem seems to be an apparent lack of availability of new releases in proportion to the theater network's needs, exacerbated by the increase in costs incurred by the use of sound equipment.
They also stated that the exhorbitant salaries paid to film stars are to blame for the high cost of film hire.
theoscarsite.com /chronicle/1931c.htm   (3257 words)

  
 Classic Film Guide
I know that The Front Page (1931) was also nominated for Best Picture that year, a film I thought was far superior to this one.
It is, however, clearly better than another of the nominees I've seen Trader Horn (1931), although that one did provide quite an educational adventure (into Africa), for the time.
For Dunne, it would be the first of her five (unrewarded) Best Actress nominations (a crime that she never received one!); for Dix, it would be his only Academy recognition.
www.classicfilmguide.com /index.php?s=oscars_best&item=3   (338 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Cimarron: Video: Anthony Mann,Charles Walters,Glenn Ford,Maria Schell,Anne Baxter,Arthur O'Connell,Russ ...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
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.
This is definately not a chick movie - the thought processes and emotions that Ford's character explores are no more understood by actual women than they are by his character's wife.
www.amazon.ca /Cimarron-Anthony-Mann/dp/0792839188   (520 words)

  
 The Enid News and Eagle, Enid, OK - Oklahoma Run better novel than Cimarron
The author of “Cimarron” had little that was good to say about Oklahoma in either of her two autobiographies.
In fairness, though, it should be added that Constant liked the “Cimarron” novel and the 1931 movie starring Richard Dix and Irene Dunn that won Oscars for best picture and best screenplay.
The Constants lived in Independence, Mo, when the second “Cimarron” movie premiered in Kansas City.
www.enidnews.com /statenews/cnhinsall_story_142090142.html   (797 words)

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