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Cimarron movie storyline. 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 native Americans of their land and resources.
Cimarron is a 1960 Metrocolor western film filmed in CinemaScope, based on the Edna Ferber novel Cimarron, featuring Glenn Ford and Maria Schell. It was directed by Anthony Mann, known for his westerns and film noirs, and by Charles Walters, who was not credited. Ferber’s novel was previously adapted in 1931; that version won three Academy Awards.
Cimarron was the first of three epics (the others being El Cid and The Fall of the Roman Empire) Mann directed. Despite high production costs and an experienced cast of western veterans, stage actors, and future stars, the film was released with little fanfare.
Cimarron (1960)
Directed by: Anthony Mann, Charles Walters
Starring: Glenn Ford, Maria Schell, Anne Baxter, Arthur O’Connell, Russ Tamblyn, Mercedes McCambridge, Vic Morrow, Robert Keith, Charles McGraw, Aline MacMahon, Harry Morgan
Screenplay by: Arnold Schulman
Cinematography by: Robert Surtees
Film Editing by: John D. Dunning
Costume Design by: Walter Plunkett
Set Decoration by: Henry Grace, Hugh Hunt, Otto Siegel
Art Direction by: George W. Davis, Addison Hehr
Music by: Franz Waxman
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release Date: December 1, 1960, Oklahoma City (Premiere)
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