Glenn Ford

Maria Schell

Anne Baxter

Arthur O'Connell

Russ Tamblyn

Mercedes McCambridge

Vic Morrow

Robert Keith

Charles McGraw

Harry Morgan

David Opatoshu

Aline MacMahon

Lili Darvas

Edgar Buchanan

Mary Wickes

Royal Dano

L.Q. Jones

George Brenlin

Vladimir Sokoloff

Andy Albin

Leon Alton

Rayford Barnes

Herman Belmonte

Mary Benoit

Barry Bernard

Phil Bloom

Jimmie Booth

Danny Borzage

Chet Brandenburg

Janet Brandt

Paul Bryar

Boyd Cabeen

Robert Carson

John Cason

William Challee

Dick Cherney

Mickie Chouteau

Fred Coby

Gene Coogan

Russell Custer

Jack Daly

John Damler

Richard Davies

George DeNormand

James Dime

Phyllis Douglas

Ted Eccles

LaRue Farlow

Franklyn Farnum

George Ford

Coleman Francis

Ben Gary

James Gonzalez

Jim Halferty

Sam Harris

Lars Hensen

Jimmie Horan

Clegg Hoyt

Irene James

Colin Kenny

Paul Kruger

Jimmy Lewis

Dawn Little Sky

Eddie Little Sky

Buzz Martin

Frankie Marvin

Kermit Maynard

Mathew McCue

J. Edward McKinley

Walter Merrill

Forbes Murray

Jack Perry

John Pickard

José Portugal

Ralph Reed

Tony Regan

William Remick

Clark Ross

Gene Roth

Paul Russell

Jack Scroggy

Charles Seel

Bernard Sell

Jack Stoney

Arthur Tovey

Ivan Triesault

Charles Watts

Helen Westcott

Robert B. Williams

Jeane Wood

Wilson Wood

Jorie Wyler

Stuart Hall

Anthony Mann

Arnold Schulman

Edna Ferber

Edmund Grainger

Franz Waxman

Robert Surtees

John D. Dunning

William Tuttle

Ridgeway Callow

A. Arnold Gillespie

George W. Davis

Addison Hehr

Henry Grace

Hugh Hunt

Otto Siegel

Walter Plunkett

Charles Walters

John Truwe

Sydney Guilaroff

Hank Moonjean

Carl Roup

Mentor Huebner

Wally Wallace

Van Allen James

Franklin Milton

Robert R. Hoag

Lee LeBlanc

Matthew Yuricich

Dick Shane

Muriel Walter

William H. Clothier

Owen Marsh

Joan Joseff

Charles K. Hagedon

Virginia Majewski

Alex Alexander

George Fields

Edward B. Powell

Leonid Raab

Milton Raskin

Western

Cimarron

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

United States of America

Thinking as I have, upon seeing the two versions (on consecutive days) depicting the fourth (from April 22, 1889) of the five Oklahoma land rushes, I have to reconsider my initial impression that the 1931 film was marginally better than this, Mann's 1960 version. I realize I'm not a member of the Glenn Ford Fan Club by any stretch of the imagination, but his co-stars are WAY better, and in Anthony Mann, you find a master of both the Western and the epic format (his later 'The Fall of the Roman Empire' is one of my favourite films from the 60's).

A jar of beeswax could have out-acted Richard Dix's performance in the original (it's a dirty rotten shame HE even got nominated for Best Actor, in a year when MANY outstanding actors were overshadowed, not being so honoured), but I have to admit Ford was good, even if IMHO he didn't deserve the honour of being front-and-center of a 2 1/2 hour epic, and you can't beat what Maria Schell, Anne Baxter, Harry Morgan and Vic Morrow--just to name a select few--brought to the picture.

Some scenes in the 1931 original still work better, but overall I believe this is one case in which the remake is better than the original. I further would insist that had Mann not been fired and replaced by Charles Walters, it would have been a minor masterpiece.