Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

FeistyUpper If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Richie-67-485852 Its a Western with all the right stuff going on. Horses, saloons, whiskey, shooting, love interest, good guys, bad guys and all the wild you can stand ala shoot em ups and lynchings. Add Bogart and Cagney and what is not to like or least want to go see? Formula sure thing Western and later on to become a must see when these two stars made it famous. Meanwhile, just enjoy the shots and lore of the early West before law and order and when people were just trying to figure things out as they went sometimes at the cost of their lives. I like seeing how towns were formed, curbs, sidewalks and how the building codes were non-existent. One fire could wipe out the whole town as the buildings are so close to one another. One significant scene is the Oklahoma land rush referred to as sooners where the first to reach a parcel fair and square claimed it for their own. Who wouldn't want a nice flat piece of land next to year round water, mountains, trees etc. The rush was on and for better or worse, the West was born. Violence would continue for decades until it was tamed. Good snack movie with a tasty drink here. Mount-up and lets ride

bsmith5552 As westerns go "The Oklahoma Kid" is a pretty fair western what with Warner Bros. excellent production values cast et al. It's hard to watch James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart in a western in that we were more accustomed to seeing them in gangster movies. In fact they faced off against each other in "Angels Have Dirty Faces" the previous year and in "The Roaring Twenties" later in 1939.Having said all of that, "The Oklahoma Kid" is an entertaining western set at the time of the Oklahoma land rush. We first see outlaw Jim Kinkaid (aka The Oklahoma Kid) foiling a stagecoach robbery by Whip McCord (Bogey) and his gang of monies meant to compensate the Indians for their land taken away for the land rush. The Kid takes the money for himself and unless I missed it, never returns it to the authorities.John Kinkaid (Hugh Sothern) and the town elders attempt to stake their claim on a prime piece of land on which to build their town (Tulsa). But McCord sneaks across the line before the rush begins and blackmails Kincaid in to conceding the gambling rights to the town in return for the parcel of land.The Kid meanwhile turns up in town spending some of the stolen cash and romancing at the same time Jan Hardwick (Rosemary Lane) the daughter of upstanding Judge Hardwick (Donald Crisp) and the girl friend of his brother Ned (Harvey Stephens).McCord and his gang have laid the town wide open. John Kincaid decides to run for mayor and rid the town of McCord and his cronies. McCord seeing the threat to his power pins a murder on Kincaid following which he orchestrates the man's lynching. The Kid arriving too late to save his father vows revenge on McCord and his gang and........................Cagney is his usual cocky bantam rooster self handles the ridin' and roughhousing with his usual style. I thought though, that he wore his guns a little high around the waist. I couldn't help it but Cagney evoked images of Yosemite Sam in his performance. Bogey just a couple of years away from major stardom, makes a good all in black villain. No wondering who the villain is here. There's a good bar room fight between the two to liven up the proceedings as well.Also in the cast are Charles Middleton Ming the Merciless in the Flash Gordon serials, as good lawyer Alec Martin and Edward Pawley, Ward Bond, Trevor Bardette and John Miljan as McCord's gang.Cagney wouldn't make another western until "Run For Cover" in 1955. Bogart on the other hand appeared again as the all in black villain, this time with a laughable Mexican accent in "Virginia City" (his last western) the following year.

writers_reign This is one for collectors; when those personifications of Urban gangsters Cagney and Bogey are transplanted to an Oklahoma territory that is so far ahead of progress that it boasts an electric door-bell Cagney rings it long and hard on two separate occasions)it shows that les freres Warner spared no expense on researching the period. Journeyman director Lloyd Bacon phones it in as do just about everyone from Cagney right on down to an uncredited Clem Bevans and the plot - you should excuse the expression - manages to hit every cliché withing shooting distance and some that should have been well out of range. Oklahoma crude would make an ideal subtitle for this snake oil but see it if you must.

bkoganbing One of my favorite movie lines of all time is from The Oklahoma Kid where James Cagney expounds on his philosophy of life to Donald Crisp in a saloon as the land rush is starting.The rest of the film is your usual fast paced Cagney film, just set out west instead of the big city. It was the first western for both Cagney and Humphrey Bogart. Cagney did a fine western in the Fifties Run for Cover and replaced Spencer Tracy in another one, Tribute to a Bad Man.Bogey did one other western, Virginia City, and next to that Whip McCord of the panhandle is an Oscar winning part. I'm not denigrating his work on Oklahoma Kid, but Bogart used to cringe whenever Virginia City was mentioned and that chintzy Mexican accent he was forced to adopt for that film.In Oklahoma Kid, he's the leader of a group of outlaws who've jumped the starting gun and put up a claim at the spot Hugh Sothern and son Harvey Stephens want to start a town. Rather than go to court which would tie them up for years, they agree to Bogart's terms to give him control of the vice industries of the town that would become Tulsa.Bogart's actions are those of a what was called a Sooner, one who jumped the starting gun and cheated in the land rush. The term is what gave Oklahoma its state nickname of The Sooner state. Although I've never understood why the state nickname glorifies illegal activity.So good and honest Hugh and Harvey just take it on the chin until the corruption gets way out of hand.But Hugh has another son, a lone wolf sort of character that's taken the outlaw path. That be James Cagney who settles things in his own way, the way Cagney usually does in films. The western after a period of doldrums in the early thirties when it was mostly B picture fare was making a comeback as a feature attraction. All the studios were starting to make them.Warners had two big ones in 1939, this one and Dodge City. Errol Flynn in the latter scored better with the public than Cagney did, so Flynn got to do more westerns. Cagney and Bogey went back to the city streets except for Bogey's ill conceived visit to Virginia City.But Oklahoma Kid is not a bad film and fans of the two stars will not be disappointed.