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voisjoe1
Jul 08, 2012voisjoe1 rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
Edna Ferber's novel, Cimarron, was adapted into this Oscar winning film released in 1931. It tells the post Civil War story of the white man's takeover of this western strip of Oklahoma, by following the story of Yancey Cravat (Richard Dix) and his wife, Sabra Cravat (Irene Dunne). While this film won the Oscar, I feel it is way below the level of other later Oscar nominees such as Lawrence of Arabia, Bridge over the River Kwai, and Dr. Zhivago. While interesting, the characters were often cartoonish. An interesting bit of trivia is that Texas ceded this strip of land to the federal government when it sought statehood, because it was north of the line allowed for slave states.