Oklahoma! (1955)

G10/10/1955Western, Music, Romance2h 28m
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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.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Gordon MacRae

    Curly McLain

  2. Cast 1

    Gloria Grahame

    Ado Annie Carnes

  3. Cast 1

    Gene Nelson

    Will Parker

  4. Cast 1

    Charlotte Greenwood

    Aunt Eller

  5. Cast 1

    Shirley Jones

    Laurey Williams

  6. Cast 1

    Eddie Albert

    Ali Hakim

  7. Cast 1

    James Whitmore

    Mr. Carnes

  8. Cast 1

    Rod Steiger

    Jud Fry

  9. Cast 1

    Barbara Lawrence

    Gertie

Great music, lyrics and dancing - but boy, what a truly sterile delivery. By necessity, staging has to be precise in a theatre; cinema offers little of such spacial restrictions so why is this musical choreographed to within an inch of it's life? There is virtually none of the spontaneity - especially with the rumbustious dances - that the big screen offered and what we are left with, though colourful and cheery, just lacks... something! So frequently it is as if they are still performing to that seat in the centre of the Royal Circle - complete with the casual supporting cast with their delic...