Oklahoma!


Artykuł pochodzi z pisma "Guardian"


Peter Bradshaw
Friday August 25, 2006
The Guardian

Very few films or plays can survive the stigma of having an exclamation mark after the title, but Fred Zinnemann's bigscreen version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, originally released in 1955, still has some breezy charm and robust American music, under those vast cloud-dappled skies in Cinemascope. I find the dramatic content of Oklahoma! a bit bland, but no red-blooded cinemagoer could fail to be affected, just a little, by that opening ground-level shot of the corn climbin' clear up to the sky, before Gordon MacRae sings Oh What A Beautiful Morning, clear as a bell. This is the pioneer story of cowboys and farmers fighting for land and love in Oklahoma territory in 1905, before it became a state.

Curly McLain (MacRae) is bashfully in love with farm-girl Laurey (Shirley Jones), but Curly has a rival: Rod Steiger's sinister hired hand Jud Fry. The song which Curly sings to him Pore Jud Is Daid - a mischievously mournful fantasy about Jud's funeral - is one of the strangest things I have seen in any musical, an apparent attempt to depress Jud into submission.
The person who steals the show is Gloria Grahame as Laurey's pal Ado Annie, the gal who can't say no; she has a subtle, playful gift for minxy comedy which absolutely upstages those big male lummoxes playing opposite her. Otherwise Gene Nelson, playing Annie's beau Will Parker, has a great dance scene at the beginning, demonstrating all the fancy big-city steps he learned in Kansas. It's got more muscular pizazz than Laurey's extended "dream ballet scene" - the choreography there looks a little fey and anaemic. A solid Hollywood landmark.

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