The Oklahoma Kid
Added 6/7/2009
I bought this VHS tape for a very good price. Although it was a used product it was in very good condition. I purchased it for my parents who enjoyed it. They said it was more melodramatic than they remembered yet it was still good considering the time it was made in.
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Extremely Entertaining Classic Western
Added 3/30/2009
My classic-movie-buff friends don't share my fondess for this film, but I thought it was one of the most interesting and entertaining classic westerns I've ever seen.
Of course, having Jimmy Cagney in the lead didn't hurt. He's usually very entertaining and this is no exception. He plays his normal cocky self, but instead of gangster or something else modern-day, he was cowboy. To those too rigid fuddie-duddies who can't see their favorite actors trying different genres - too bad. Cagney as a cowboy?? Why not? He' still the same, great actor and entertainer. Same goes for Humphrey Bogart.
Bogart, as he so often was before he became a mega-star with Casablanca, played the bad guy. He looked like he had a bad toupee, too. I hope that wasn't his real hair!
This was fun to watch right from the get-go and also featured some excellent black-and-white cinematography which made it all the better. At 82 minutes, this is a quick night of entertainment, but I liked that short running time.
Isn't it about time a good DVD of this film was offered?
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the oklahoma kid
Added 2/21/2009
enjoyable, cagney, bogart,together as cowboys, but still shooting guns. seniors would have fun viewing this movie.
djkay
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Competent but slightly disappointing star Western...
Added 2/9/2009
'The Oklahoma Kid' is competent but slightly disappointing star western memorable for the clash in this guise of its protagonists, more usually seen as gangsters...
The film is generally far more to the living of the Western traditionalists, and it never once allows its size to create an atmosphere of self-importance... Nevertheless it maintains a pleasant tongue-in-cheek approach which makes the occasional tragic moments stand out in even greater relief...
But even with two such big names on hand, 'The Oklahoma Kid' moves tediously against the colorful backgrounds of a colorful era... Cagney--who makes his own law with his fast draw-- brings his cheeky personality to the West without making the slightest change in his standard characterization... Bogart plays it without even the mordant sense of humor that he usually brings to his gangster roles... As a sinister figure all in black, he gives an equally unconvincing performance as an outlaw gang leader who deceitfully obtains saloon and gambling rights in return for letting Cagney's father and brother have rights to a site on which they plan to build a town...
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Essentially, a gangster film in a western setting
Added 11/20/2003
I like The Oklahoma Kid, mainly because it features 2 of my favorite actors, Cagney and Bogart. It's also an entertaining B-Western picture from Warner Brothers. Don't expect anything profound. Bogart is not nearly as good as he is the John Huston's 1948 masterpeice, Treasure of the Sierra Madre. James Cagney is not nearly as good as he is in Raoul Walsh's 1949 masterpeice, White Heat. However, The Oklahoma Kid is a fun western film, one of my favorite guilty pleasures. A good way to kill 80 minutes. Check it out. ***1/2 (of *****), too bad Amazon doesn't use half-star intervals, huh?
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The Oklahoma Kid
Added 6/7/2009
I bought this VHS tape for a very good price. Although it was a used product it was in very good condition. I purchased it for my parents who enjoyed it. They said it was more melodramatic than they remembered yet it was still good considering the time it was made in.
0 out of 0 people found this helpful.
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Extremely Entertaining Classic Western
Added 3/30/2009
My classic-movie-buff friends don't share my fondess for this film, but I thought it was one of the most interesting and entertaining classic westerns I've ever seen.
Of course, having Jimmy Cagney in the lead didn't hurt. He's usually very entertaining and this is no exception. He plays his normal cocky self, but instead of gangster or something else modern-day, he was cowboy. To those too rigid fuddie-duddies who can't see their favorite actors trying different genres - too bad. Cagney as a cowboy?? Why not? He' still the same, great actor and entertainer. Same goes for Humphrey Bogart.
Bogart, as he so often was before he became a mega-star with Casablanca, played the bad guy. He looked like he had a bad toupee, too. I hope that wasn't his real hair!
This was fun to watch right from the get-go and also featured some excellent black-and-white cinematography which made it all the better. At 82 minutes, this is a quick night of entertainment, but I liked that short running time.
Isn't it about time a good DVD of this film was offered?
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the oklahoma kid
Added 2/21/2009
enjoyable, cagney, bogart,together as cowboys, but still shooting guns. seniors would have fun viewing this movie.
djkay
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