Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Anthony Mann had become one of the major directors of westerns and fast-paced cinema. But such a belief is questioned by this over-acted, over-produced, badly written film. It is said that Mann left the film and was replaced by Charles Walters, who, obviously, was not a man for this kind of film. Even the large-scale land-rush scene is pure 'piffle'. The script is a mish mash of every cliche in the book. I do see the somewhat vague parallel to Ferber's later 'Giant', but the film of that book was a masterwork; this one is the bottom of the ladder. Glenn Ford is caught with every cliche. Wonderful Maria Schell is all 'smiles' and semi-smiles and poor! Perhaps the worst acting, and worst writing, is saved for Anne Baxter, looking and acting as if she was still being DeMille-d in 'The 10 Commandments'. Plot holes are everywhere, and logic is nowhere is sight. The opening song, under the credits, paves the way for awfulness that follows it for its interminable length. It can't really be attributed to Mann. Only MacMahon has a good moment, and not even McCambridge, O'Connell,Keith, Tamblyn, etc. can offer assistance.

This big sprawling epic remake of the Academy Award Best Picture winner Cimarron (1931) was directed by Anthony Mann, based on the same Edna Ferber novel but with a much different screenplay from Arnold Schulman.The first half of the story is focused on Yancey 'Cimarron' Cravat, who seems to know everyone, and starts just before the Oklahoma land rush of 1889 while its second half focuses more on Cravat's immigrant wife Sabra, and other characters. Glenn Ford plays the nicknamed title character, Maria Schell his wife, and various (uncredited) actors play the Cravat's son, named Cimarron, through the 25 year story, during which Yancey is missing for fifteen! Running nearly 2 and a half hours, it's more than 15 minutes longer than the original.Anne Baxter, Arthur O'Connell, Russ Tamblyn, Mercedes McCambridge, Vic Morrow, Robert Keith, Charles McGraw, Harry Morgan, David Opatoshu, Aline MacMahon, and Edgar Buchanan play other significant roles in the film's plot. Mary Wickes, Royal Dano, and Vladimir Sokoloff are among those who also appear.'Cimarron' Cravat (Ford) is an American original, a man who has to be where the action is. Hence, he's taken his new bride Sabra (Schell) to the cusp of what will become Oklahoma, the territory about to be settled in a mad rush by those who want to stake their claim to a 160 acre parcel of government land, "first come, first serve". People have come by covered wagons, and on horseback and bicycles, to participate.The Cravats met and assisted poor Tom Wyatt (O'Connell), his wife Sarah (McCambridge) and their eight daughters on their way to the event. Sarah was also nearly accosted by three ruffians, and former acquaintances of her husband's, the Cherokee Kid (Tamblyn), Wes (Morrow), and Hoss (George Brenlin).At the gathering "festival" the night before, Cimarron seemingly knows everyone they come across including newspaper owner and editor Sam Pegler (Keith), his wife Mavis (MacMahon), their printer Jessie Rickey (Morgan), and photographer Ike Howes (Dano). He also saves and befriends an Indian, his squaw, and their baby while making enemies of Bob Yountis (McGraw), who doesn't think "their kind" should be allowed to participate in the land rush. Cimarron also runs into Dixie Lee (Baxter), who (it will later be learned) was one of the women in his life before Sabra, and a pretty serious one as well.During the spectacle itself, the Indian's wagon is overturned and consequently Pegler is killed because of Yountis's aggressive and intentional actions. Wyatt misses his chance to claim prime land but his wife Sarah is able to claim the barren land just inside the border. For Yancey's part, he's beaten to the land he'd picked out by the only other one who knew about it, Dixie. So, he becomes the editor of the 'Oklahoma Wigwam' when Mavis decides to go back East. Jessie stays on to work for Yancey.The Cravats settle in the town of Osage, where Yountis continues to cause problems for others including being a bad influence on the Cherokee Kid, who was the son of a man that used to employ Yancey but had lost his fortune to the government in an eminent domain type transaction. Sol Levy (Opatoshu) becomes a temporary victim of Yountis's prejudice and influence over the Kid, so Sol's naturally befriended by Yancey, who ends up killing both Yountis and the Kid, in time. One outcome of Yountis's killing is his "adoption" of the Indian's wife (Yountis had killed her husband) and her child at about the same time that the Cravat's son Cimarron is born. Buchanan plays the town's judge, who rejects Yancey's plea to let the Indian child go to school with the other children.As five years pass, Yancey is more interested in being involved in other world changing events, like the opening of Alaska and being one of Roosevelt's Rough Riders, than he is his family. Dixie finds that she has no influence over him either and, when she's unable to convince him to leave Sabra, she returns to her former profession, only this time she's the owner of her own "Social Club" instead of being one of its girls.With Jessie's help and Sol's friendly financing (he'd begun humbly as a storekeeper himself), Sabra grows the newspaper (eventually into a conglomerate of sorts). Meanwhile, due to Yancey's earlier advice, Wyatt finally struck oil, becoming one of the richest men in the country. When Yancey returns, he's appalled that Wyatt has taken advantage of the Indians by purchasing the oil rights for their reservation. He uses the paper to embarrass Wyatt and his friend Senator Rollins (Robert Carson, uncredited) such that Wyatt tries to manipulate Yancey into accepting the state's governorship in order to control him. Naturally, Yancey refuses to kowtow to their wishes, upsetting Sabra and causing him to disappear again.Ten years pass before Sabra learns the fate of her husband, he'd died fighting World War I. Though Wyatt had planned to recognize her as a symbol of pioneer spirit, she insists at the paper's 25th anniversary, with all including her estranged son and his Indian wife (the Cravats had raised in their home) and Mavis in attendance, that the sculptor (Vladimir Sokoloff) recognize Yancey instead.

Anthony Mann a good Director helms this western a remake of the great Irene Dunne hit Cimarron. The story is well known: The great land Rush opening up the Western United States.Maria Schell so beautiful was given a great promotion by MGM in a film that Elizabeth Taylor would have been perfect. Anne Baxter steals the movie and is wonderful. Great MGM production values.Glenn Ford was a very popular leading man in the mid 50's to early 60's making many fine films. I never was a big Glenn Ford fan and this film should have starred Steve McQueen or perhaps even George Peppard then a young MGM contract player.

I haven't seen this all the way thru since 1965; but have seen bits and pieces of it on TCM (thank God for them). Maria Schell is fine as Sabra,and Glenn Ford sporadically shines and then falls flat as an epic hero. I like the other epic qualities, as well as the excellent supporting cast that seems to carry the movie along. I also noticed during the sequence with the train coming in supposedly carrying Yancey from the Spanish American War: the big bell tower in the background is from "Raintree County" (1957). Good music score.