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Other InformationAwardsBest Director Academy Awards [1932] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Best Cinematography Academy Awards [1932] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Best Actress in a Leading Role Academy Awards [1932] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Best Actor in a Leading Role Academy Awards [1932] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Best Writing, Adaptation Academy Awards [1932] (Won/Nominated: Won) Best Art Direction Academy Awards [1932] (Won/Nominated: Won) Best Picture Academy Awards [1932] (Won/Nominated: Won) TaglineEarth-shaking in its grandeur! A titanic canvas sprung to life! Terrific As All Creation Edna Ferber`s Mighty Novel Becomes The Towering Colossus Of The Films ! World`s Mightiest Show! Related MoviesCimarron [Remade as] (Year of movie: 1960) |
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Trivia and QuotesQuotes Yancy Cravat: Why, it`ll be all over the southwest that Yancy Cravat was hiding behind a woman`s petticoat!
Sabra Cravat: But you didn`t! They can`t say so! You shot him there nicely in the ear, darling.
Yancy Cravat: Well, you shouldn`t interfere when men are having a little friendly shootin`.
Yancy Cravat: Sugar, if we all took root and squatted, there would never be any new country.
[caption at the beginning of the film]
Caption: In 1889, President Harrison opened the vast Indian Oklahoma Lands for white settlement... 2,000,000 acres free for the taking, poor and rich pouring in, swarming across the border, waiting for the starting gun, at noon, April 22nd.
Mrs. Tracy Wyatt: One of my ancestors was a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
Sol Levy: That`s all right. A relative of mine, a fellow named Moses, wrote the Ten Commandments.
Yancy Cravat: I`ll show them first crack that the Oklahoma Wigwam prints all the news all the time - knowing no law except the law of God and the government of the United States. Say, that`s a pretty good slogan! Top of the page - just ahead of the editorial column!
Yancy Cravat: Wife and mother, stainless woman, hide me... hide me in your love.
Sabra Cravat: Do you feel nervous about your sermon, dear?
Yancy Cravat: I`d rather plead to a Texas jury than preach to this gang.
Sabra Cravat: Did you have to kill him?
Yancy Cravat: No, I could have let him kill me.
Sol Levy: They will always talk about Yancy. He`s gonna be part of the history of the great Southwest. It`s men like him that build the world. The rest of them, like me... why, we just come along and live in it.
Yancy Cravat: Louie Heffner, as coroner do your official duty and remove the body.
Louie Heffner: Okay, Yancy. It was self-defense and justifiable homicide. This town needs a Boot Hill and I`ll start it with this burial.
Yancy Cravat: Fellow citizens! Under the circumstances, we will forego the sermon and conclude this service with a brief word of prayer.
Trivia The only internally-produced RKO film to ever win the Best Picture Oscar. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) (AA: Best Picture, 1946) was a Samuel Goldwyn production distributed by RKO.
Arguably the only winner of the Best Picture Oscar to lose money during its initial release. The film received excellent critical reviews, but its initial financial failure was blamed on its being released during one of the darkest periods of the Great Depression.
The movie lost $565,000 on a budget of $1.433 million. It was re-released in 1935 and the red ink mostly disappeared off RKO`s books.
According to Anthony Holden`s book "Behind the Oscar" (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993), R.K.O. lost $5.5 million (approximately $58 million in 2003 dollars, when factoring in inflation) on the movie despite its winning a Best Picture Academy Award. This was the first Western to win an Oscar. The land rush scene took a week to film, using 5,000 extras, 28 cameramen, 6 still photographers and 27 camera assistants. A then-record $125,000 was paid for the film rights to the novel. One of the extras was Nino Cochise, the actual grandson of the great Chiricahua chief Cochise. He and his good friend Apache Bill Russell were in this movie as well as several others.
Yancey Cravat, the character played by Richard Dix, was based on real-life lawyer and gunfighter Temple Houston - the son of Sam Houston, whom Dix played in Man of Conquest (1939) and upon whom the 1960s western TV series "Temple Houston" (1963) was based.
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