Cimarron (1931) on Netflix
Yancey Cravat races for land in the 1889 Oklahoma Land Rush but loses the Bear Creek claim to Dixie Lee. He takes his wife Sabra to Osage and founds a newspaper.
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In 1889 the government throws open the Oklahoma Territory, and thousands rush in to claim free land. Yancey Cravat crosses from Kansas with his bride Sabra to join the race. A young prostitute, Dixie Lee, beats him to the Bear Creek claim he had marked for a ranch. With that plan gone, he takes his family to Osage, a boomtown, and starts a weekly paper, the Oklahoma Wigwam, so the rough camp can grow into a respectable town. Sabra, who had not wanted to move, makes a life in the growing settlement and raises their daughter Donna as newcomers keep arriving.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Cimarron (1931)
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- Cimarron was the first Western ever to win the Best Picture Oscar, and no other Western would win the award again for almost 60 years, until Dances with Wolves in 1990.
- To film the Oklahoma land rush sequence, RKO used more than twenty-eight cameramen and over 5,000 costumed extras racing across the hills in covered wagons, buckboards, surreys and bicycles.
- RKO bought 89 acres in Encino and built a complete western town and three-block main street there to art director Max Rée's Oscar-winning design; those sets eventually formed the nucleus of RKO's expansive movie ranch, where other films were later shot.
- Cimarron is one of only three films ever to receive Academy Award nominations in every eligible category, the others being Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Sinners.
