Cimarron (1931)

Rating: 50%
So next on the list among best picture winners is Cimarron so...here's my review for that.

Plot: Yancy Cravat is a man from around the late 1800s who moves his family to the Oklahoma territory where he eventually becomes a lawyer and a newspaper editor. Over the years he becomes a leader for the town of Osage, but eventually he decides to disappear and settle in Cherokee Strip leaving his wife to fend for herself back at home.

...meh. That's all I really feel about this movie. The acting is fine and things like that, but the story doesn't really cling on to me. Sometimes it's interesting to see what Yancy is going to do and how he does it. I mean I thought the character was very interesting whenever he would make these big speeches and quote all these bible verses and stuff like that, and with that you can at least like how he is something of a noble and wise man deep down. But when you look at the big scale of what he does, it's all just about conquering and having a stupid big empire or be practically the king of the world, roughly somewhat similar to Charles Foster Kane and Willie Stark in Citizen Kane and All The King's Men respectively. And the whole deal with him disappearing all the time during the second half of the film makes the movie drag a lot throughout the remainder of the film and kind of ending it that way without much of a climax or really any sort of big conflict for that matter.

So that's really is all there is to say for my review for Cimarron. The whole thing just gives you an okay story with a semi-interesting main character that may have been spectacular during its time, but in today's standards is not really the most memorable best picture winner.