Oklahoma! (1955) | StreamFlix

Cast

Gordon MacRae

Curly McLain

Shirley Jones

Laurey Williams

Gloria Grahame

Ado Annie Carnes

Charlotte Greenwood

Aunt Eller

Eddie Albert

Ali Hakim

Rod Steiger

Jud Fry

Jay C. Flippen

Skidmore

James Whitmore

Mr. Carnes

Gene Nelson

Will Parker

Barbara Lawrence

Gertie

About Oklahoma!

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.

Popularity

2.9

Budget

$5,900,000

Revenue

$14,200,000

Release

Oct 10, 1955

Genres

Western, Music, Romance

Director: Fred Zinnemann

Writer: Sonya Levien, William Ludwig

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Reviews (1)

CinemaSerf

Nov 14, 2022

6.0

Great music, lyrics and dancing - but boy, what a truly sterile delivery. By necessity, staging has to be precise in a theatre; cinema offers little of such spacial restrictions so why is this musical choreographed to within an inch of it's life? There is virtually none of the spontaneity - especially with the rumbustious dances - that the big screen offered and what we are left with, though colourful and cheery, just lacks... something! So frequently it is as if they are still performing to that seat in the centre of the Royal Circle - complete with the casual supporting cast with their delicate short steps and stage whispers in each other's ear. Gordon MacRae looks pristine, way too pristine, and Gloria Grahame a very pale imitation of Doris Day from 2 years earlier in "Calamity Jane". Charlotte Greenwood does a cracking job as the worldly "Aunt Eller" as does Eddie Albert as the improbably named "Ali Hakim"; even Rod Steiger does genuinely carry off the role of the disgruntled "Jud Fry" but I'm afraid the whole just doesn't equal the sum of the parts - and with Rodgers & Hammerstein providing "Oh, What a Beautiful Morning"; "Surrey with a Fringe on Top" "I'm Just a Girl Who Can't Say No" & the eponymous title tune; that's a real shame...

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