Folksy and sentimental.
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11/01/07
Oklahoma! (1955)
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Reviews Counted:22
Fresh:20
Rotten:2
Average Rating:7.2/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 26 mins
Genre: Musical & Performing Arts
US Box Office: $0
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... [More]
Starring: Gordon MacRae, Shirley Jones, Gloria Grahame, Rod Steiger
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Reviews for Oklahoma!
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
Top CriticIt'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
50 years on there's still an infectious charm about Oklahoma!
11/01/07
Pretty fun in spite of itself.
01/15/07
A solid Hollywood landmark.
08/26/06
Top CriticA brilliant musical that still looks fresh today.
08/25/06
Top CriticNo review available.
08/15/06
Efficient but not exciting.
03/31/06
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
...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
No review available.
06/14/05
No review available.
03/25/04
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
No review available.
12/26/03
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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