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Cimarron is a 1931 pre-Code epic Western film starring Richard Dix and Irene Dunne, and directed by Wesley Ruggles. Released by RKO, it won Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay (written by Howard Estabrook and based on Edna Ferber's 1930 novel Cimarron), and Best Production Design (by Max Rée).
A newspaper editor settles in an Oklahoma boom town with his reluctant wife at the end of the nineteenth century. 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.
This Academy Award-winning adaptation of Edna Ferber's novel traces the lives of two people who are in love with each other--but in love with life even more--as they struggle to bring...
Cimarron (1931) -- (Movie Clip) A New Empire! Back in Kansas after missing out in the Oklahoma land run, Yancey (Richard Dix) defies family and in-laws and announces he's headed back, wife Sabra (Irene Dunne) supporting, in Cimarron, 1931, from the Edna Ferber novel.
- Wesley Ruggles
- Richard Dix
Cimarron is a 1931 Pre-Code Western film directed by Wesley Ruggles, starring Richard Dix and Irene Dunne, and featuring Estelle Taylor and Roscoe Ates. The Oscar-winning script was written by Howard Estabrook based on the Edna Ferber novel Cimarron.
A dreadful cinematic manifestation of manifest destiny, Cimarron tells the story of the United States frontier through the journey of a mythical American couple. The central figure, Yancey Cravat, excels at literally everything that he tries — over the course of the film’s forty-odd years, he serves as a settler, a newspaper editor, a ...
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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.
