Cimarron (1960) Reviews

Outdoor scenes are shot on a sound stage which makes Cimarron look cartoonish. The production values are very low but Cimarron receives high praise from "liberal"critics. It is not a typical Western. In Cimarron the Cowboy's are shown to be prejudice and evil and all of the Native Americans are shown to be good "victims". The main character, Cimarron becomes famous for printing in his newspaper; "Indians ripped off by some White dude" even though he admits there was no proof. Clearly the Indians thought they were ripping off the White dude when they sold their mineral rights, but when it turns out there is oil on the land, "White dude rips off Indians". Cimarron is another example of a lousy movie with a racist "liberal" point of view. It receives good reviews because most critics are "liberal" and can't help hating White folks and treating minorities as if they're subhuman, pets who need the special protection of the all mighty White, "liberal" race! Cimarron sucks!
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This 1960 version of Cimarron is a remake of an earlier 1931 picture by the same name. It is in color and the DVD that I saw was wide-screen without any special features. It is 2 1/2 hours long. This is an epic western covering the settlement of Oklahoma through World War I. Glen Ford plays Yancey Cimarron Cravat who is a man of principals but also an adventurer. Those two characteristics cause much conflict with his wife played by Maria Schell. The movie begins with Yancey and his bride of two weeks participating in the great Oklahoma land rush of 1889. We follow their lives for the next 25 years as the family builds an empire running a newspaper and fighting against big oil and championing the cause of Native Americans. This movie is huge in scope and is one of the great westerns of the 1960's.
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