Cimarron 1931 123movies

Watch: Cimarron 1931 123movies, Full Movie Online – When the government opens up the Oklahoma territory for settlement, restless Yancey Cravat claims a plot of the free land for himself and moves his family there from Wichita. A newspaperman, lawyer, and just about everything else, Cravat soon becomes a leading citizen of the boom town of Osage. Once the town is established, though, he begins to feel confined again, and heads for the Cherokee Strip, leaving his family behind. During this and other absences, his wife Sabra must learn to take care of herself and soon becomes prominent in her own right..
Plot: When the government opens up the Oklahoma territory for settlement, restless Yancey Cravat claims a plot of the free land for himself and moves his family there from Wichita. A newspaperman, lawyer, and just about everything else, Cravat soon becomes a leading citizen of the boom town of Osage. Once the town is established, however, he begins to feel confined once again, and heads for the Cherokee Strip, leaving his family behind. During this and other absences, his wife Sabra must learn to take care of herself and soon becomes prominent in her own right.
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Ratings:

	5.8/10 Votes: 6,300
	52% | RottenTomatoes
	70/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 89 Popularity: 6.335 | TMDB

Reviews:

Quantity – not quality
This gargantuan war-horse of a western epic won the Oscar as the Best Film of 1930/31 proving from the earliest days of the Academy it was quantity not quality that mattered and that big equalled best. Of course there wasn’t much in the way competition, (“East Lynne”, “The Front Page”, “Skippy” and “Trader Horn”). Much better films like “Morocco”, “The Criminal Code” and “Little Caesar” failed to make the short-list. But it is still surprisingly robust and enjoyable in the way that these kind of movies sometimes are, (it’s certainly a lot less po-faced than the dire 1960 remake), and it has some really good things in it; a great church meeting sequence and a very well staged hold-up culminating in a great moment when a young black boy is killed and is ignored in the general mêlée and is a brave scene for the period, and a sequence probably deemed too contentious for the remake.

The acting, too, is a cut above the average for the time. A young, fresh-faced Irene Dunne is lovely and shows considerable promise here and Richard Dix has a kind of screen presence. It’s ham and he plays to the gallery but he’s very likable. Estelle Taylor is touching as the whore with the obligatory heart of gold and Edna May Oliver is very funny but in too small a role.

It runs out of steam before the end. It’s top heavy in the plot department, (based, as it is, on an Edna Ferber door-stopper), and characters come and go without making much of an impression. Often listed in polls of the worst films to win the Best Picture Oscar it has vigour and a complete lack of pretension. I’ll take it any day over “A Beautiful Mind”.

45 reviews have come before mine and I will try to write new stuff and not bore you with repeating what others have said.
In fairness to Richard Dix’s overacting, Charles Bickford, one of the great character actors ever, also overacted atrociously in “Anna Christie,” which was made exactly one year earlier than “Cimarron.” The majority of movies didn’t go from being silent to talking until 1929 and “Cimarron” was filmed in 1930, so both these films were real early talking films and the performers had not learned to down scale their performances.

The editing and cinematography were outstanding, even revolutionary for that era. The film needs to be viewed in a historic context and not compared to current films. I do agree that “Cimarron” does not hold up as well during the march of time from 1930 to 2008 as does “Public Enemy,” “Little Caesar,” “Scarface” but it was a complex and ambitious film adaptation of a novel by an outstanding writer, Edna Ferber.

Richard Dix’s character does stand up for and vehemently support fairness to Indians and prostitutes, which was a revolutionary idea for a movie made in 1930.

I did notice that Eugene Jackson, the young black teenager, worked for 60 years in the film business, including a recurring role in “Stanford and Son,” and in “Julia.” Richard Dix, a major star in silent films starting in the early 1920s, peaked around the time of “Cimarron” and by the second half of the 1930s was stuck in B films but did continue his career and stared in films until his retirement in 1947.

Irene Dunne went on to super stardom for the next 20 years and made quite a few classics (check out her film list in her biography.) It is amazing!

I want to compliment the other writers who are classic film lovers but do want to state that too many readers check the not helpful box instead of the helpful box when evaluating the reviews of others. I feel that they are being too picky. After all, we are a select group of people who appreciate old films and should have support each other more as a group, unless the review is vindictive or totally uninformed.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 2 hr 3 min (123 min)
Budget 1433000
Revenue 1383000
Status Released
Rated Passed
Genre Drama, Western
Director Wesley Ruggles
Writer Edna Ferber, Howard Estabrook, Louis Sarecky
Actors Richard Dix, Irene Dunne, Estelle Taylor
Country United States
Awards Won 3 Oscars. 5 wins & 4 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (RCA Photophone System)
Aspect Ratio 1.20 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length 3,408.25 m (13 reels)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm