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Cimarron
from Warner Home Video
starring Glenn Ford, Maria Schell, Anne Baxter, Arthur O'Connell, Russ Tamblyn
directed by Anthony Mann, Charles Walters

Features:

• DVD-Video
• NTSC

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• "Glenn Ford Series ... Cimarron (1960) ... MGM (2008)"
  MGM presents "CIMARRON" (December 1960) (147 mins/Color) (Dolby digitally remastered) -- Our story line and plot, 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 indians of their land and oil --- Anthony Mann (Director), Robert... more info

• one of my favorite westerns: beautiful and poetric
  I know that this is one of the most under-rated westerns, but it also has its die-hard fans like myself who consider it a long-lost classic. I'm so happy it's finally on DVD. I think it's one of Anthony Mann's greatest films, much more sweeping and visually creative than the original, and I've always been moved by Maria Schriver's performance, and of course Glenn Ford who is always great. I think it is a particularly deep western- complex and interesting even when it fails at times... I think its epic... more info

• Much Overrated Western
  CIMARRON (1960) was MGM's big Cinemascope/colour remake of RKO's epic 1930
  production of Edna Ferber's classic story of the same name. From a
  screenplay by Arnold Schulman it was - I am loath to say - unevenly directed by Anthony Mann.
  I am quite astonished - even aghast - that some reviewers on these pages
  have given this film a five and even four star rating together with wholly exagerated claims that it is Mann's best and most underrated western. It is nowhere near his best... more info

• New DVD release planned for Summer 2008
  Maybe I was spoiled by the 1931 version of this film. In particular the very hammy portrayal of Yancey by Richard Dix has come to grow on me just as Irene Dunne's wonderful portrayal of Sabra. That film won an unbelievable Best Picture Oscar and even a Best Actor nomination for Dix. This movie is far superior to the original, especially with Glenn Ford as Yancey playing it straight this time. It confronts head-on the social issues that the original just skirts around, yet in doing this it just seems to take... more info

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