Cimarron

1931 · Wesley Ruggles

Restless dreamer Yancey Cravat races into the newly opened Oklahoma Territory during the 1889 land rush, only to be outmaneuvered for his chosen claim by a shrewd young woman, and settles instead to build a newspaper and a life with his wife Sabra in the raw frontier town of Osage. Over four decades, Yancey's wanderlust repeatedly pulls him away from his family and civic ambitions, leaving the more practical Sabra to raise their children and ultimately surpass him as a respected public figure. Wesley Ruggles's sprawling Western epic tracks Oklahoma's transformation from lawless boomtown to modern state alongside the Cravats' unconventional, decades-spanning marriage.

Director

Wesley Ruggles

Studio

RKO Radio Pictures

Starring

Richard Dix, Irene Dunne, Estelle Taylor