It's 1889. Sabra Cravat is a sheltered woman newly married to Yancey "Cimarron" Cravat (Glenn Ford). Cimarron has done many things in the west and is eager to join the Oklahoma land rush.
This has an epic land rush section. The masses of people and horses are very impressive. It's a great sequence and it's over at the forty minutes mark. After that, it's almost two more hours of western melodrama. This has two Oscar nominations, both for technical categories. Again, the big production does showcase that aspect of the film. The story is somewhat take it or leave it. I'm mostly leaving this other than the land rush. I don't particularly like Cimarron even though he's a good guy. It's the naked Sabra with the boys. That scene rubs me the wrong way. The epic land rush is good old fashion filmmaking and I can live with the rest of it.
This has an epic land rush section. The masses of people and horses are very impressive. It's a great sequence and it's over at the forty minutes mark. After that, it's almost two more hours of western melodrama. This has two Oscar nominations, both for technical categories. Again, the big production does showcase that aspect of the film. The story is somewhat take it or leave it. I'm mostly leaving this other than the land rush. I don't particularly like Cimarron even though he's a good guy. It's the naked Sabra with the boys. That scene rubs me the wrong way. The epic land rush is good old fashion filmmaking and I can live with the rest of it.