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Adapted by Arnold Schulman from the novel by Edna Ferber, Anthony Mann’s Cimarron, a remake of the Academy Award-winning original from 1931, premieres in Oklahoma City. The film chronicles twenty five turbulent years - from the aleatory chaos of the 1889 Oklahoma land rush to the outbreak of the first World War - in the life of Sabra Cravat (Maria Schell) and her devoted but ultimately wayward husband "Cimarron" (Glenn Ford). Though epic in every sense of the word, with a solid supporting cast that includes Anne Baxter, Mercedes McCamridge and Harry Morgan, the film fails to duplicate the original's sense of Western grandeur and is written off as a box-office failure. Over the next three years Mann tackles two more mega productions - El Cid (1961) and The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964).
