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"A nation rising to greatness through the work of men and women, new country opening, raw land blossoming, crude towns growing into cities, territories becoming rich states. In 1889, President Harrison opened the vast Indian Oklahoma lands for white settlement--2,000,000 acres free for the taki...

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Main Author: Estabrook, Howard, 1884-1978 (Adapter, Author of dialog, Screenwriter)
Corporate Authors: RKO Radio Pictures, Turner Entertainment Co, Warner Home Video (Firm)
Other Authors: LeBaron, William, 1883-1958 (Producer), Ruggles, Wesley, 1889-1972 (Director, Producer), Dix, Richard, 1893-1949 (Actor), Dunne, Irene, 1898-1990 (Actor), Taylor, Estelle, 1894-1958 (Actor), O'Neil, Nance, 1874-1965 (Actor), Collier, William, Jr (Actor), Ates, Roscoe, 1895-1962 (Actor), Stone, George E., 1903-1967 (Actor), Fields, Stanley, 1884-1941 (Actor), McWade, Robert, 1872-1938 (Actor), Oliver, Edna May, 1883-1942 (Actor), Barrett, Judith, 1914-2000 (Actor), Jackson, Eugene W., 1916-2001 (Actor), Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968
Format: Video DVD
Language:English
Language Notes:In English with optional subtitles in English, French, or Spanish; closed-captioned.
Published: Burbank, CA : Turner Entertainment Co. : [2006]
Edition:Special ed.
Subjects:
Families > Drama.
Marriage > Drama.
Frontier and pioneer life > Drama.
Oklahoma > History > Land Rush, 1889 > Drama.
Oklahoma > Drama.
Vida fronteriza > Teatro.
Oklahoma > Teatro.
Western films.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Film adaptations.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Summary:"A nation rising to greatness through the work of men and women, new country opening, raw land blossoming, crude towns growing into cities, territories becoming rich states. In 1889, President Harrison opened the vast Indian Oklahoma lands for white settlement--2,000,000 acres free for the taking, poor and rich pouring in, swarming the border, waiting for the starting gun, at noon, April 22nd ..."--Prologue from title screens. Cimarron is a sprawling western saga, an earnest tale about empire building, and a film of its time, which viewers should keep in mind. It follows the adventures Yancey Cravat, a lawyer and newspaperman from Wichita, who joins the Oklahoma Territory land rush in 1889. Soon he and his family are citizens of Osage. Beset by wanderlust, Yancey joins the Cherokee Strip land rush in 1893, leaving wife Sabra behind to run the newspaper and raise their son, Cimarron. by 1907, Yancey is back at home as Oklahoma becomes a state. During the oil boom, he refuses to join a scheme to cheat the Indians out of their oil rich land, and then disappears again. In 1929, Sabra is elected Oklahoma's first Congresswoman, Cimarron is married to an Indian princess, and Yancey still hasn't returned.
Item Description:Based on the novel by Edna Ferber.
Special features: 'The devil's cabaret' [featurette] (16 min.); 'Red-headed baby' [featurette] (7 min.).
Videorecording.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (123 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:DVD; region 1; Dolby Digital mono.; full screen presentation preserving the 1.20:1 aspect ratio of its original theatrical exhibition.
Audience:MPAA Rating: Not rated.
Awards:Academy Awards, 1931: Best Art Direction (Max Rée), Best Writing, Adaptation (Howard Estabrook), Best Picture.
Production Credits:Photography, Edward Cronjager ; editor, William Hamilton ; scenery & costumes, Max Rée ; special effects, Lloyd Knechtel.
ISBN:0790748363
9780790748368