Oklahoma! (1955)
91 %
Reviews Counted: 22 Fresh: 20 Rotten:2 Average Rating: 7.2/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 26 mins
Synopsis: A big, lush screen version of the Rodgers & Hammerstein hit Broadway musical. Originally presented in Todd-AO widescreen, this rousing tale of a farm girl who falls in love with a cowboy and then must fend off the advances of a villainous suitor is packed with some the most beloved tunes in... [More]
Genre: Musical & Performing Arts
Starring: Gordon MacRae, Shirley Jones, Gloria Grahame, Rod Steiger, Gene Nelson
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Composer: Richard Rodgers
Screenwriter: Sonya Levien, William Ludwig
Producer: Arthur Hornblow
Composer: Richard Rodgers
Screenwriter: Sonya Levien, William Ludwig
Producer: Arthur Hornblow
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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.
11/01/07
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It's a watchable, if hardly terrific, rendering of an innovative Broadway landmark.
11/01/07
The film heaves and sputters from one indifferently rendered number to the next.
11/01/07
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My favourite is the odd cast singing ‘The Farmer and the Cowman should be friends’, a sentiment I have long believed in.
01/26/06
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.
12/13/05
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...Zinnemann manages to keep the pace moving in the right direction, and any small concerns one may have diminish quickly in light of the rest of the movie's delights.
11/11/05
if classic Broadway is your thing, you’ll enjoy this movie more than the other Rodgers and Hammerstein classics that made it to the screen in the same era
11/03/05
Changed the face of the musical… After The Sound of Music, it's the best-loved Rogers & Hammerstein film adaptation, deservedly so.
01/30/04
Whatever your interest in the sexual politics of the 1950s musical, this is a good-looking, sweet-sounding piece that'll surely have you hot under the collar.
05/24/03
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.
05/20/03
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