In the Oklahoma territory at the turn of the twentieth century, two young cowboys vie with a violent ranch hand and a traveling peddler for the hearts of the women they love.

Gordon MacRae
as Curly McLain

Shirley Jones
as Laurey Williams

Gloria Grahame
as Ado Annie Carnes

Charlotte Greenwood
as Aunt Eller

Eddie Albert
as Ali Hakim

Rod Steiger
as Jud Fry

Jay C. Flippen
as Skidmore

James Whitmore
as Mr. Carnes

Gene Nelson
as Will Parker

Barbara Lawrence
as Gertie
CinemaSerf
Great music, lyrics and dancing - but boy, what a truly sterile delivery. By necessity, staging has to be precise in a theatre; cinema offers little of such spacial restrictions so why is this musical choreographed to within an inch of it's life? There is virtually none of the spontaneity - especial...