Fresh
The wide screen used for the Todd-AO process adds production scope and visual grandeur, capturing a vista of blue sky and green prairie that can be breathtaking.
Variety Staff, Variety
Overview
In the Oklahoma territory at the turn of the twentieth century, two young cowboys vie with a violent ranch hand and a traveling peddler for the hearts of the women they love.
Director and cast
- Fred Zinnemann Director
- Gordon MacRae as Curly McLain
- Gloria Grahame as Ado Annie Carnes
- Gene Nelson as Will Parker
- Charlotte Greenwood as Aunt Eller
- Shirley Jones as Laurey Williams
- Eddie Albert as Ali Hakim
- James Whitmore as Mr. Carnes
- Rod Steiger as Jud Fry
- Barbara Lawrence as Gertie
- Jay C. Flippen as Skidmore
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
87%
Tomatometer
Rotten
The film heaves and sputters from one indifferently rendered number to the next.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Fresh
My favourite is the odd cast singing 'The Farmer and the Cowman should be friends', a sentiment I have long believed in.
Wally Hammond, Time Out
Fresh
The film is so richly layered that multiple viewings become compulsive -- you think it's all there in front of you, but every time you revisit it, you notice something more, and finish with a desire to go back again.
Douglas Pratt, Hollywood Reporter
Fresh
A full-bodied Oklahoma! has been brought forth in this film to match in vitality, eloquence and melody any musical this reviewer has ever seen.
Bosley Crowther, New York Times
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