Oklahoma! (1955)
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Reviews Counted:22
Fresh:20
Rotten:2
Average Rating:7.2/10
Theatrical Release:25-08-2006
Synopsis: A big, lush screen version of the Rodgers & Hammerstein hit Broadway musical. Originally presented in Todd-AO widescreen, this rousing tale of a farm girl who falls in love with a cowboy and then... [More]
Starring: Gordon MacRae, Shirley Jones, Gloria Grahame, Rod Steiger
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Reviews for Oklahoma!
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Folksy and sentimental. Full Review |
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4/5 |
50 years on there's still an infectious charm about Oklahoma! Full Review |
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3/5 |
A solid Hollywood landmark. Full Review |
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4/5 |
A brilliant musical that still looks fresh today. Full Review |
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My favourite is the odd cast singing ‘The Farmer and the Cowman should be friends’, a sentiment I have long believed in. Full Review |
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Whatever your interest in the sexual politics of the 1950s musical, this is a good-looking, sweet-sounding piece that'll surely have you hot under the collar. Full Review |
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The wide screen used for the Todd-AO process adds production scope and visual grandeur, capturing a vista of blue sky and green prairie that can be breathtaking. Full Review |
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3/4 |
It's a watchable, if hardly terrific, rendering of an innovative Broadway landmark. Full Review |
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The film heaves and sputters from one indifferently rendered number to the next. Full Review |
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3/4 |
Pretty fun in spite of itself. Full Review |
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3/5 |
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B |
Efficient but not exciting. Full Review |
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The film is so richly layered that multiple viewings become compulsive -- you think it's all there in front of you, but every time you revisit it, you notice something more, and finish with a desire to go back again. Full Review |
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8/10 |
...Zinnemann manages to keep the pace moving in the right direction, and any small concerns one may have diminish quickly in light of the rest of the movie's delights. Full Review |
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3.5/5 |
if classic Broadway is your thing, you’ll enjoy this movie more than the other Rodgers and Hammerstein classics that made it to the screen in the same era Full Review |
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2/5 |
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3/5 |
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A- |
Changed the face of the musical… After The Sound of Music, it's the best-loved Rogers & Hammerstein film adaptation, deservedly so. Full Review |
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4/5 |
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5/5 |
A full-bodied Oklahoma! has been brought forth in this film to match in vitality, eloquence and melody any musical this reviewer has ever seen. Full Review |
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