Cimarron (1931)

19312h 04mdir. Wesley RugglesUnited StatesWestern filmepic film

Note: this print runs 124 minutes against a recorded 131 minutes. It is the best copy we have found; we keep looking for a complete print.

With Richard Dix, Irene Dunne, Estelle Taylor, George E. Stone, William Collier Jr., Edna May Oliver, Eugene Jackson, Judith Barrett

Directed by Wesley Ruggles

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Cimarron is a 1931 American pre-Code epic Western film starring Richard Dix and Irene Dunne, and directed by Wesley Ruggles. Released by RKO, it won Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay (written by Howard Estabrook and based on Edna Ferber's 1930 novel Cimarron), and Best Production Design (by Max Rée). It is the first of four Westerns to ever win the top honor at the Academy Awards, being followed almost 60 years later by Dances with Wolves in 1990, Unforgiven in 1992, and No Country for Old Men in 2007.

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