Fresh
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.
Variety Staff, Variety
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Oklahoma!
Overview
There's a box social coming up, and Curly asks Laurey if she'll be his date. Trouble is, Laurey thinks he's waited too long, and in a fit of pique accepts an offer from the boorish ranch hand Jud instead. Meanwhile, Laurey's friend Ado Annie is also torn between two men: cowboy Will and foreign peddler Ali Hakim. Both women struggle to know their own hearts before it's too late.
Director and cast
- Fred Zinnemann Director
- Gordon MacRae as Curly McLain
- Shirley Jones as Laurey Williams
- Gloria Grahame as Ado Annie Carnes
- Charlotte Greenwood as Aunt Eller
- Eddie Albert as Ali Hakim
- Rod Steiger as Jud Fry
- Jay C. Flippen as Skidmore
- James Whitmore as Mr. Carnes
- Gene Nelson as Will Parker
- Barbara Lawrence as Gertie
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
87%
Tomatometer
Rotten
The film heaves and sputters from one indifferently rendered number to the next.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Fresh
My favourite is the odd cast singing 'The Farmer and the Cowman should be friends', a sentiment I have long believed in.
Wally Hammond, Time Out
Fresh
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.
Douglas Pratt, Hollywood Reporter
Fresh
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.
Bosley Crowther, New York Times
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