Oklahoma

Oklahoma! is a 1955 musical film based on the 1943 musical play Oklahoma!, written by composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist/librettist Oscar Hammerstein II and starring Gordon MacRae, Shirley Jones (in her film debut), Rod Steiger, Charlotte Greenwood, Gloria Grahame, Gene Nelson, James Whitmore and Eddie Albert. The production was the first musical directed by Fred Zinnemann. Oklahoma! was the first feature film photographed in the Todd-AO 70 mm... More

Initial release date:

  • Oct 11, 1955

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Rating:

G (USA)

Runtime:

  • 2 h 25 min

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Also known as:

  • Oklahoma!

Film

Directed by

Fred Zinnemann

Fred Zinnemann (29 April 1907 – 14 March 1997) was an Austrian-American film director. He won two Academy Awards for directing films (From Here to Eternity and A Man for All Seasons) in many genres, including thrillers, westerns, film noir, and play adaptations. Nineteen actors appearing in...

Tagline:

  • It's Here!
  • Now a motion picture as big as all outdoors!
  • Complete...Intact...with Every Scene...Every Song!
  • The best loved musical of our time!

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Release date(s):

  • 1955

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Runtime:

  • 2 h 25 min

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Currency Amount
  • 5,000,000

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Oklahoma!

Oklahoma! is the first musical written by the team of composer Richard Rodgers and librettist Oscar Hammerstein II. The musical is based on Lynn Riggs' 1931 play, Green Grow the Lilacs. Set in Oklahoma Territory outside the town of Claremore in 1906, it tells the story of cowboy Curly McLain and...

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  • 7.0
  • 2007
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