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List Price: $19.98 Features • Closed-captioned • Color • DVD-Video • Letterboxed • THX • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 1955 DVD Release : 27 April, 1999 |
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Oklahoma! description The hit Broadway musical from the 1940s gets a lavish if not always exciting workout in this 1955 film version directed by old lion Fred Zinnemann (High Noon). Gordon MacRae brings his sterling voice to the role of cowboy Curly, and Shirley Jones plays Laurie, the object of his affection. The Rodgers and Hammerstein score includes "The Surrey with the Fringe on Top," "Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'," and "People Will Say We're in Love," and Agnes DeMille provides the buoyant choreography. Among the supporting cast, Gloria Grahame is memorable as Ado Annie, the "girl who cain't say no," and Rod Steiger overdoes it as the villainous Jud. --Tom Keogh |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Great musical and film, transitional edition |
| Arguably the most historically important musical in Broadway history ("Show Boat" would be its only rival), "Oklahoma" inarguably has the most arresting if not dazzling opening. We're placed smack dab in the middle of the ripe corn fields of Oklahoma and swept into the freshest, most colorful and vibrant summer morning ever captured on film--accompanied by the inviting "O" vowel that first lures us with "Oh, What a Beautiful Morning" and will eventually seal the deal with "OOOOOOklahoma!" And before we've recovered from this bracing beginning, we're as captivated as Shirley Jones is by Gordon McCrae's musical-visual picture of a "Surrey With the Fringe on Top." No film let alone musical has a more spectacular beginning, and though it's impossible to sustain this level of exhilaration (for one thing, Rodgers and Hammerstein's second acts always tend to be anticlimactic), the total experience is still the most "cinematic" of all the R&H screen adaptations ("Sound of Music" is its closest competitor cinematically, though not even close musically).
The producers of this edition do a disservice to the film by the inclusion of the Todd-A-O disc which, in its unrestored state, would best be represented by a footnote in the accompanying notes. Moreover, the problem of sizing a 4:3 letterbox film to a 16:9 screen will best be dealt with when a hi-def version is available. Until then, best hang on to your old copy. |
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