Cimarron (1960) (MOD) "Fantasy Adventure"

Cimarron (1960) (MOD) "Fantasy Adventure"April 22, 1889. Tens of thousands of hopeful homesteaders are poised at the Oklahoma border, waiting for the gunshots that will send them on a feverish dash to claim a share of two million acres free for the taking. The spectacular Oklahoma Land Rush is just one of many pivotal moments in this rousing saga based on the novel by Edna Ferber (Giant), and filmed previously to Academy Award winning* effect as the recipient of Best Picture and two other

Richard Widmark

Matthau received an Oscar-nomination and a Golden Globe Award

Willard Mack also wrote and directed

a hard-drinking author and Nobel winner for literature

The Hunger brings an art-house aesthetic to Streiber's revisionist vampire saga

can be found Martin Sheen

while the Kid - who's secretly Kincaid's son - risks his own neck as he races to Tulsa to see that justice is served

whose concerned papa sends him to the posh prep school in hopes of turning the troublemaker into a responsible young man

gets into a fight with a movie theater manager (Whit Bissell) no one believes he acted in self-defense

Ex-playboy Sir Basil Winterton has located the now-grown children he sired out of wedlock by different women and invited them to share the splendor of Rooksfold Manor

Michael's transition from cold professional to caring physician provides the compassionate core of this tale accented with vivid location filming

along with songs by the young Andre Previn