Cimarron
by Anthony Mann, Charles Walters
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Actor: Anne Baxter, Arthur O'Connell, Glenn Ford, Maria Schell, Russ TamblynDirector: Anthony Mann, Charles Walters
Brand: WARNER HOME VIDEO
Cinematographer: Robert Surtees
Editor: John D. Dunning
Producer: Edmund Grainger
Writer: Arnold Schulman
Writer: Edna Ferber
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 147 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-08-26
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of Cimarron
Movie Review: Cimarron...last western for the great Anthony Mann
Summary: 4 Stars
CIMARRON(1960) Starring Glenn Ford, Maria Schell, Anne Baxter, Constance McCambridge and Henry Morgan. A beautiful, technicolor, big screen gem.
Not the success that its 1931 predecessor was, and certainly not Mann's best western, it still remains my personal favorite of the two versions.
For one, Glenn Ford is a more likable leading man. Maria Schell is outstanding in this as Fords longsuffering wife. Her practicality constantly clashing with Fords crusading idealism and wanderlust. Anne Baxter is also a lot of fun as Fords sassy (and at one point vindictive) ex girlfriend.
The shot of the Land Rush race scene is outstanding, and tragic and the stunts actually made me cringe in a few parts. This was the first of what was to be Mann's run of "Epics". Cimarron would be followed by EL CID and THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE.
Having already cut his teeth and excelled at Film Noir with classics like "T-MEN" and "RAW DEAL", he then moved on to the western genre. Making his westerns gritty, dark and full of freudian subtext. He was a big fan of and influenced by Ford.
But there was something different and special about Mann's westerns. This is obvious watching his "WINCHESTER 73", "THE MAN FROM LARAMIE" "MAN OF THE WEST" and my personal favorite "THE FURIES". His career and talent is fun to watch and chart. His westerns were often noir'ish in style. His landscapes often dark and bleak and harsh. His use of rock and stone in his landscapes were often symbolic of the hard shells that his characters developed as a result of tragedy or betrayal.
Manns version of Cimarron was more akin to the colorful style of the 60s era "Epic". Glenn Fords unflexable morals and ideals as well as his seeming inability to explain them to Maria Schell give those moments a sort of painful tragicness to them. You keep rooting for him to explain why he is the way he is to Schell and you hope that Schell just might understand him. They have a great chemisty. The color is eye popping and luscious to look at. The scenes are indeed epic.
I highly recommend this one.
Summary of Cimarron
et in Oklahoma from 1890-1915. A quarter century of change is seen through experiences of a pioneering couple determined to succeed in America. Based on a novel by Edna Ferber.The 1960 remake of Cimarron manages a slight improvement on the worst Best Picture (1931) in Academy Award history. 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. Anthony Mann gets solo directorial credit, yet the movie seems more typical of his replacement, Charles Walters, a maker of pastel musicals. Most of the large cast comes and goes without establishing identities; Maria Schell's Sabra Cravat is tiresome as both ditz and pill. Photographed in CinemaScope and Metrocolor by Robert L. Surtees, the Oklahoma land rush is properly spectacular--though less impressive than John Ford's in Three Bad Men. --Richard T. Jameson
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