Film · RKO · 1931
Pass it on
Cimarron
50Watch it awake.
She holds the town while he leaves, and the rush was not an empty field.
The review
Best picture, and still not a settled year-winner. I kept the marriage, not the prize. The Oklahoma land rush starts it. A pioneer leaves. A wife stays and holds the town while he chases the next frontier. It's from Edna Ferber. A house can watch the staying. That staying is the work.
Don't call the ground empty. Native people are the film's blind spot, and a decent wife doesn't cancel it. He gets the leaving. She gets the town. If you put it on, say the blind spot before anyone treats the rush as a gift that cost no one.
Journal
Keep Cimarron in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 50. Yours can differ.
The glance
Piety and Republic and Temperance and Truth and Stewardship are the thin ones.
Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
Shane
69 instead of 50
Shane is still a western film, and it scores 69 instead of 50. What you gain is republic: Settlers against a private seizure.
The eight
- 8Industry
The wife stays and holds the town, and that staying is the work.
- 7Household
A marriage split by his leaving; she keeps the house he will not stay in.
- 3Piety
Nothing stops him chasing the next frontier once the rush is behind him.
- 7Courage
She holds a town alone while he risks the next frontier he could miss.
- 4Republic
She owes the town; Native people stay outside the debt the rush admits.
- 4Temperance
He keeps wanting the next frontier; she is the one who stops traveling.
- 3Truth
The leaving is plain, and the rush is still framed as if the field were empty.
- 4Stewardship
A town is held, and the people already on that land are not what remains.
Where to watch
Finding the page.
Live Historic · Cimarron · 50IMDb
