Full screen presentation preserving the 1.20:1 aspect ratio of its original theatrical exhibition.

Based on the novel by Edna Ferber.

Special features: 'The devil's cabaret' [featurette] (1930, 16 min.); 'Red-headed baby' [animated featurette] (1933, 7 min.).

Photography, Edward Cronjager ; editor, William Hamilton ; scenery & costumes, Max Rée ; special effects, Lloyd Knechtel.

Richard Dix (Yancey Cravat), Irene Dunne (Sabra Cravat), Estelle Taylor (Dixie Lee), Nance O'Neil (Felice Venable), William Collier, Jr. (The Kid), Rosco Ates (Jesse Rickey), George E. Stone (Sol Levy), Stanley Fields (Lon Yountis), Robert McWade (Louis Hefner), Edna May Oliver (Mrs. Tracy Wyatt), Nancy Dover (Donna Cravat), Eugene Jackson (Isaiah).

Originally produced as an American motion picture in 1930.

"A nation rising to greatness through the work of men and women, new country opening, raw land blossoming, crude towns growing into cities, territories becoming rich states. In 1889, President Harrison opened the vast Indian Oklahoma lands for white settlement--2,000,000 acres free for the taking, poor and rich pouring in, swarming the border, waiting for the starting gun, at noon, April 22nd ..."--Prologue from title screens. A western saga about empire building, it follows the adventures of Yancey Cravat, a lawyer and newspaperman from Wichita, who joins the Oklahoma Territory land rush in 1889. Soon he and his family are citizens of Osage. Beset by wanderlust, Yancey joins the Cherokee Strip land rush in 1893, leaving wife Sabra behind to run the newspaper and raise their son, Cimarron. By 1907, Yancey is back at home as Oklahoma becomes a state. During the oil boom, he refuses to join a scheme to cheat the Indians out of their oil rich land, and then disappears again. In 1929, Sabra is elected Oklahoma's first Congresswoman, Cimarron is married to an Indian princess, and Yancey still hasn't returned.

MPAA Rating: Not rated.

DVD, region 1; Dolby Digital mono.

In English with optional subtitles in English, French, or Spanish; closed-captioned.

Winner, 1930/1931 Academy Awards for Best Art Direction--Max Rée; Best Writing, Adaptation--Howard Estabrook; Best Picture--RKO Radio.

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