Oklahoma!

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Korben D @Korbendallas506 Jan 30 What a bewildering mess. Rodgers & Hammerstein take the simplest boy-meets-girl premise and somehow turn it into a disjointed, tonally schizophrenic pseudo-thriller that collapses under its own contradictions. The plot lurches from lighthearted hoedown romance to dark, unsettling episodes: women being auctioned off like livestock in the "Farmer and the Cowman" picnic scene, a desperate man trying to manipulate his rival into suicide, and a surreal kitchen-turned-makeshift courtroom where a cold-blooded murder is cheerfully dismissed so everyone can sing about beautiful mornings. Worse, the show completely erases the actual history of 1906 Oklahoma Territory—no Native Americans, no mention of slavery nor the racial landscape—just a sanitized, all-white fantasy of frontier life. The score has two classics ("Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’" and "People Will Say We’re in Love"), but they’re not enough to justify sitting through 2 hours and 45 minutes of narrative chaos and moral blindness. See more Stephen C @bob25009 Jun 5 2 hours and 25 minutes of successful singing and dancing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! See more Russ G @RT78760655 02/13/2025 Sorry, but I don't have two and a half hours to waste on this relic. See more John S @RT40486670 12/28/2024 The music is lovely. But there are some really appalling bits that are a product of this movie's time. The auctioning of women and erasure of the acts of removing indigenous people from land they were promised being the greatest jaw droppers. But yeah, great music. See more Alec B @Alec97 05/29/2024 Despite a few annoying cuts/changes to the score and some weird casting choices it is a solid adaptation of the stage musical. Getting to film outside for several sequences (as opposed to a studio set) is one of the best things about the movie, especially for its rousing opening number. See more Jose G @RT90009580 12/30/2023 Classic 50's film musical based on the 40's stage musical, the first written by Rodgers & Hammerstein. Shirley Jones shines in her first role in a motion picture, and the song and dance numbers still hold up fantastically-save for a couple that could've probably been omitted to shorten the run time. See more Read all reviews

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