Cimarron
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Anne Baxter, Arthur O'Connell, Glenn Ford, Maria Schell, Russ Tamblyn Director: Anthony Mann, Charles Walters Brand: Warner Brothers Cinematographer: Robert Surtees Editor: John D. Dunning Producer: Edmund Grainger Writer: Arnold Schulman Writer: Edna Ferber DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Unknown); 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 |
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Movie Reviews of Cimarron
Movie Review: Great but marred
Summary: 4 Stars
Some great moments punctuate this movie but it also has many flaws. The land rush scenes were just spectacular, and used literally thousands of extras, who seem to stretch to the horizon in one shot just before the starting guns go off. The wagons race across the landscape, many careening and flipping over in spectacular fashion, and reminding me of nothing so much as the famed chariot race in Ben Hur.
But the movie fails to develop many of the characters, who just come and go. And even Glen Ford disappears for years at a time, especially toward the end. Still, most of the actors do well with their parts. The one exception is Maria Schell who is just tiresome as the whiney wife who simply doesn't belong on the frontier and should have stayed in her stuffy high-society cocoon back east.
Maybe that isn't her fault if the character was written that way, but by the end of the movie you are really tired of her character, who is constantly whining, complaining, and caterwauling about something that a real frontier wife would have taken in stride.
The cinematography is great though, and some of the character actors who appear throughout the entire film, such as David Opatoshu, Ann Baxter, Arthur O'Connell, Henry Morgan (of Dragnet and Mash fame) and Edgar Buchanan, do provide some continuity and development. But without Maria Schell's character the movie would have been so much better. Still, the movie has more good points than bad points and if you're a Glen Ford fan is certainly worth your consideration.