Cimarron

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Richard Dix stands with arms raised at the center of a nighttime campsite scene with wagons and horses, while Irene Dunne stands at the far right under a large tree in Cimarron (1931).

Cimarron

film by Ruggles [1931]

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Wesley Ruggles
The sound era
Ruggles then directed Cimarron (1931), which in its day was one of the most expensive films ever made, with an estimated budget of $1.43 million, more than most hit pictures then were grossing. The western was based on Edna Ferber’s best-selling novel about the settling of Oklahoma, with…
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Ruggles then directed Cimarron (1931), which in its day was one of the most expensive films ever made, with an estimated budget of $1.43 million, more than most hit pictures then were grossing. The western was based on Edna Ferber’s best-selling novel about the settling of Oklahoma, with…
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RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.
…RKO’s other better-known films are Cimarron (1931), from the novel by Edna Ferber; King Kong (1933), one of the first monster films; John Ford’s The Informer (1935); and Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane (1941), now considered a
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…RKO’s other better-known films are Cimarron (1931), from the novel by Edna Ferber; King Kong (1933), one of the first monster films; John Ford’s The Informer (1935); and Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane (1941), now considered a
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