Oklahoma!

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Oklahoma!

G

1955

2h 25m

Musical

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86%

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75%

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There's a box social coming up, and Curly (Gordon MacRae) asks Laurey (Shirley Jones) if she'll be his date. Trouble is, Laurey thinks he's waited too long, and in a fit of pique accepts an offer from the boorish Jud (Rod Steiger) instead. Meanwhile, Laurey's friend Ado Annie (Gloria Grahame) is also torn between two men: a cowboy named Will (Gene Nelson) and a foreign peddler, Ali Hakim (Eddie Albert). Both women struggle to know their own hearts before it's too late.

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Critics Consensus

Aye-yip-aye-yo-ee-ay! The critics are sayin' you're doin' fine, Oklahoma! Oklahoma, O.K.!

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Ronald B. Rogers

Village Voice

May 10, 2022

A visit to your local theatre will convince you that Oklahoma! is a fresh and lively as ever.

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Variety Staff

Variety

Nov 1, 2007

The wide screen used for the Todd-AO process adds production scope and visual grandeur, capturing a vista of blue sky and green prairie that can be breathtaking.

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Dave Kehr

Chicago Reader

Nov 1, 2007

The film heaves and sputters from one indifferently rendered number to the next.

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Matt Brunson

Film Frenzy

Mar 2, 2024

3.5/4

The soundtrack is exceptional, and Gloria Grahame swipes a few scenes as Ado Annie, the girl who just “cain’t say no.”

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Grant Watson

Fiction Machine

Feb 5, 2024

7/10

This film is bright, bold, and enthusiastic. It is the 1955 equivalent of a studio blockbuster: big-screen entertainment for the masses.

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Rachel Wagner

Rachel's Reviews (YouTube)

Apr 7, 2022

Darker than you remember which makes it intriguing. Plus great songs

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Robert P

@Superbad Sep 7, 2026

Oklahoma! = a *4* star Movie

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bruce C

@bruce999 Aug 3, 2026

a classic musical to see over and over. wonderful, timeless. don't miss it

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Michael H

@RT39583935 Jul 28, 2026

I will say this one has a great soundtrack with some iconic and memorable songs. But, the plot and characters don't really hit it for me as much as something like The Sound of Music. It's kinda just a love triangle movie with some fine chemistry between the main leads and side characters. I wouldn't mind seeing this again, but I'll mostly just go to the soundtrack.

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Kyle M

@RT77296778 May 31, 2026

The spectacular music and spirited choreography plus grandly scaled framework enthrallingly attributes in making up for the frivolous storyline treatment and sappy performances with occasional humorous charisma to declare this stellar stage-to-screen translation. (B+)

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Korben D

@Korbendallas506 Jan 30, 2026

What a bewildering mess. Rodgers & Hammerstein take the simplest boy-meets-girl premise and somehow turn it into a disjointed, tonally schizophrenic pseudo-thriller that collapses under its own contradictions. The plot lurches from lighthearted hoedown romance to dark, unsettling episodes: women being auctioned off like livestock in the "Farmer and the Cowman" picnic scene, a desperate man trying to manipulate his rival into suicide, and a surreal kitchen-turned-makeshift courtroom where a cold-blooded murder is cheerfully dismissed so everyone can sing about beautiful mornings. Worse, the show completely erases the actual history of 1906 Oklahoma Territory—no Native Americans, no mention of slavery nor the racial landscape—just a sanitized, all-white fantasy of frontier life. The score has two classics ("Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’" and "People Will Say We’re in Love"), but they’re not enough to justify sitting through 2 hours and 45 minutes of narrative chaos and moral blindness.

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Stephen C

@bob25009 Jun 5, 2025

2 hours and 25 minutes of successful singing and dancing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Fred Zinnemann

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Gordon MacRae

Curly McLain

Shirley Jones

Laurey Williams

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Jud Fry

Gloria Grahame

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Synopsis

There's a box social coming up, and Curly (Gordon MacRae) asks Laurey (Shirley Jones) if she'll be his date. Trouble is, Laurey thinks he's waited too long, and in a fit of pique accepts an offer from the boorish Jud (Rod Steiger) instead. Meanwhile, Laurey's friend Ado Annie (Gloria Grahame) is also torn between two men: a cowboy named Will (Gene Nelson) and a foreign peddler, Ali Hakim (Eddie Albert). Both women struggle to know their own hearts before it's too late.

Director: Fred Zinnemann
Producer: Arthur Hornblow Jr.
Screenwriter: Sonya Levien, William Ludwig
Distributor: Samuel Goldwyn Company, 20th Century Fox, RKO Radio Pictures
Production Co: Rodgers & Hammerstein Productions
Rating: G
Genre: Musical
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 11, 1955, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 17, 2015
Runtime: 2h 25m
Sound Mix: Stereo

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