The Oklahoman (1957)
Country: US
Technical: col 80m
Director: Francis D. Lyon
Cast: Joel McCrea, Brad Dexter, Barbara Hale
Synopsis:
When his wife dies in childbirth, a doctor interrupts his push out west and settles in Oklahoma territory to raise his daughter. There, his friendship with the Indian blacksmith brings him into conflict with a local acquisitive cattle baron.
Review:
Unusual in having a doctor as its hero, this otherwise unremarkable Allied Artists western skirts its interracial theme by making the Indian love interest far too young for him (McCrea wearing his waistband decidedly high by this stage in his career), and disappointingly drops a major element of the plot about finding oil on the Indian's land.
Country: US
Technical: col 80m
Director: Francis D. Lyon
Cast: Joel McCrea, Brad Dexter, Barbara Hale
Synopsis:
When his wife dies in childbirth, a doctor interrupts his push out west and settles in Oklahoma territory to raise his daughter. There, his friendship with the Indian blacksmith brings him into conflict with a local acquisitive cattle baron.
Review:
Unusual in having a doctor as its hero, this otherwise unremarkable Allied Artists western skirts its interracial theme by making the Indian love interest far too young for him (McCrea wearing his waistband decidedly high by this stage in his career), and disappointingly drops a major element of the plot about finding oil on the Indian's land.
Country: US
Technical: col 80m
Director: Francis D. Lyon
Cast: Joel McCrea, Brad Dexter, Barbara Hale
Synopsis:
When his wife dies in childbirth, a doctor interrupts his push out west and settles in Oklahoma territory to raise his daughter. There, his friendship with the Indian blacksmith brings him into conflict with a local acquisitive cattle baron.
Review:
Unusual in having a doctor as its hero, this otherwise unremarkable Allied Artists western skirts its interracial theme by making the Indian love interest far too young for him (McCrea wearing his waistband decidedly high by this stage in his career), and disappointingly drops a major element of the plot about finding oil on the Indian's land.