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Watch: Oklahoma! 1955 123movies, Full Movie Online – In the Oklahoma territory at the turn of the twentieth century, two young cowboys vie with a violent ranch hand and a traveling peddler for the hearts of the women they love..
Plot: This joyous celebration of frontier life combines tender romance and violent passion in the Oklahoma Territory of the 1900s with a timeless score filled with unforgettable songs. Rodgers and Hammerstein’s hit Broadway musical.
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Ratings:

	7.0/10 Votes: 13,044
	86% | RottenTomatoes
	74/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 128 Popularity: 8.742 | TMDB

Reviews:

One of the Strongest Stage to Screen Musicals
The stage-to-screen musical became an institution during the 1950s, one that would reach its peak in the mid-1960s and then quickly decline. Within the industry, I wonder if a certain prestige attached itself to established directors who could create good musicals, because many a veteran director tried his hand at it. Between 1955 and 1970, directors like Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Robert Wise, George Cukor and Carol Reed, none of them known as musical directors, would make some of the best-known and best-loved screen musicals of all time. Fred Zinneman tossed his hat into the ring with “Oklahoma!”

And, as it happens, made a pretty good job of it. Many a film director struggled with how to open up stage-bound material for the screen. Some didn’t try (George Cukor in “My Fair Lady”) and some improved on the original material through doing so (Robert Wise in “The Sound of Music”). Zinneman’s efforts fall somewhere in between. The vast landscapes that serve as a background for his film contribute a realism that the stage version could never capture, but Zinneman doesn’t always know what to do with the space he’s given, and his transitions from scene to scene (that would have been covered up on stage through extra business and music) suffer from clunkiness. The score sounds remarkable, and those involved knew well enough to leave the original songs mostly intact.

Where “Oklahoma!” surpasses other film musicals is in its wonderful cast. Gordon MacRae could play a signing cowboy without making him twerpy. Shirley Jones could convince you with her soprano warble that she was an innocent country girl. Rod Steiger is almost too good for the material as the psycho Jud Fry. James Whitmore, Eddie Albert and Charlotte Greenwood have priceless little bits that they make the most of. And Gene Nelson and Gloria Grahame steal scene after scene, making you almost wish the movie was about them.

Most importantly, Zinneman knew how to stage a musical number and effectively capture dance on film, which is something Mankiewicz, whose “Guys and Dolls” came out in the same year, did not.

Grade: A

“You’re Doing Fine Oklahoma, Oklahoma OK”
Back in 1957 I saw this film when it was re-released and playing as a double feature with Carousel. Talk about musical entertainment, you can’t do much better than that.

With a few numbers cut, this film version of the legendary Broadway musical is a faithful adaption of the show that premiered in 1943 and set a record of 2212 performances in a five year Broadway run at the St. James Theater. Oklahoma set a host of firsts on Broadway, the first musical to have an original cast album, the first also in the partnership of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, II.

Oklahoma on stage was also daring in that it had an extensive use of ballet, something unheard of for Broadway. Well, not quite because Richard Rodgers when he was writing with Lorenz Hart had Georges Balanchine do the famous Slaughter on Tenth Avenue ballet for On Your Toes.

But that was not as long as the dream ballet of Laurie that Agnes DeMille choreographed for Oklahoma. Agnes had previously choreographed Aaron Copland’s composition Rodeo for a ballet and was a perfect choice for the musical with the western setting.

Would you believe that Oklahoma’s origins came from a flop play by Lynn Riggs called Green Grow the Lilacs? The first person to play Curly was not Alfred Drake on stage or Gordon MacRae on film, but Franchot Tone. It’s the closest the urbane Mr. Tone ever got to a western in his career. June Walker played the Laurie part in Green Grow the Lilacs that Joan Roberts did on stage and Shirley Jones did in this film. Green Grow the Lilacs ran a total of 64 performances back in 1931. But Dick Rodgers saw the musical possibilities in it.

MacRae was a proved commodity, but this was Shirley Jones’s big screen debut. She followed it up with Carousel again co-starring with MacRae, just as the era of big screen musicals were ending. To some of us she’s better known for singing those Rodgers&Hammerstein songs than for being the mother of the Partridge Family.

The secondary characters in the show are nicely cast with the secondary romantic triangle of Gene Nelson, Gloria Grahame, and Eddie Albert. One of the songs cut is a number called, It’s a Scandal, It’s an Outrage that Albert’s character, peddler Ali Hakim sings. Albert did sing on stage and screen occasionally, I wish his number had stayed in. All he got out of the film as we well know is a three day bellyache.

The songs of Oklahoma are part of our national musical treasure from the opening of Oh, What a Beautiful Morning to the rousing title song almost at the very end. On stage, Oh, What a Beautiful Morning is sung off stage with a farm house setting and the Aunt Eller character, Charlotte Greenwood, sitting and churning butter. On stage MacRae is on horseback, riding through a cornfield where you can really see the corn is as high as an elephant’s eye.

Rodgers&Hammerstein also gave one state in the union probably the best state song ever written at least in my humble opinion. The infectious and optimistic Oklahoma is in fact now the state song of the Sooner state. You can’t sit quietly and listen and watch that number when its on, I defy anyone to.

Another big hit is People Will Say We’re in Love that MacRae and Jones sing trying terribly hard to convince each other they’re not crushing out. A favorite of mine has always been the ballad that Jones sings, Many A New Day to cheer herself up when MacRae hasn’t asked her to the dance.

The plot of Oklahoma is slight, a couple of wholesome young people playing courting games about a dance. The problem is that the brooding hired hand of Jones and Greenwood’s farm is used to make MacRae jealous. That would be Jud Fry, played with appropriate menace by Rod Steiger. The method acting Mr. Steiger stands out in this cast, but he’s supposed to, because he’s not really part of the community of farmers and cowmen. Among all these musical performers, Mr. Steiger proves to actually have a few nice notes in his voice as he joins MacRae singing Poor Jud is dead.

It took over ten years for Oklahoma to finally make it to the big screen. It took home Oscars for sound and musical scoring. It was well worth the wait.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 2 hr 25 min (145 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated G
Genre Comedy, Drama, Musical
Director Fred Zinnemann
Writer Sonya Levien, William Ludwig, Richard Rodgers
Actors Gordon MacRae, Gloria Grahame, Gene Nelson
Country United States
Awards Won 2 Oscars. 4 wins & 4 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix 4-Track Stereo (Western Electric Sound System) (CinemaScope version) (35 mm magnetic prints)
Aspect Ratio 2.20 : 1 (70 mm version), 2.55 : 1 (35 mm version)
Camera Bausch & Lomb Lenses
Laboratory Technicolor (uncredited)
Film Length (9 reels), 3,831 m (Netherlands)
Negative Format 35 mm (Eastman 25T 5248), 65 mm (Eastman 25T 5248)
Cinematographic Process CinemaScope (anamorphic) (24 fps), Todd-AO (30 fps)
Printed Film Format 35 mm (24 fps), 70 mm (30 fps)