Terrific as all creation!
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. Once the town is established, however, he begins to feel confined once again, and heads for the Cherokee Strip, leaving his family behind. During this and other absences, his wife Sabra must learn to take care of herself and soon becomes prominent in her own right.
- 5.6
- 1931
- Released
- 2h 3m
Richard Dix
Yancey Cravat
Irene Dunne
Sabra Cravat
Estelle Taylor
Dixie Lee
Nance O'Neil
Felice Venable
William Collier Jr.
The Kid
Roscoe Ates
Jesse Rickey (as Rosco Ates)
George E. Stone
Sol Levy
Stanley Fields
Les Yountis
Robert McWade
Louis Hefner
Edna May Oliver
Mrs. Tracy Wyatt
Judith Barrett
Donna Cravat (as Nancy Dover)
Eugene Jackson
Isaiah
Max Barwyn
Sabra's Luncheon Greeter (uncredited)
Heinie Conklin
(uncredited)
Edith Fellows
(uncredited)
Otto Hoffman
Murch Rankin (uncredited)
William Janney
Man Phoning Ambulance (uncredited)
Bob Kortman
Killer (uncredited)
Frank Lackteen
Man Warning Yountis (uncredited)
Ethan Laidlaw
(uncredited)
Dennis O'Keefe
(uncredited)
Helen Parrish
Young Donna (uncredited)
Carl Stockdale
(uncredited)
Arthur Tovey
Dancer at Ball
Hank Potts
Stunts (uncredited)Released
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$1,433,000.00
$1,383,000.00
- #newspaper
- #gunslinger
- #indian territory
- #oklahoma
- #family history
- #frontier
- #black and white
- #newspaper editor
- #pre-code
- #land grab
- #oil rig
- #land rush
- #marksmanship
- #drilling for oil
- #land grant
- #osage indian
- #defense lawyer
- #american history
- #1890s
Reviews
I know this gets VERY maligned these days as one of the very worst winners ever of the Best Picture Oscar, especially considering 'The Front Page' was the definitive best of those nominated that year, at the 4th Academy Awards ceremony (and that great films such as 'City Lights', 'Morocco' and 'Frankenstein' didn't even get nominated), but if you can take away Richard Dix's horrible overacting (I