Bringing back the golden opportunity to witness yesteryear American musical, ‘Oklahoma’ stage to cinema adaptation will be screened Tuesday, February 10 at 6 pm at American Center, Galle Road, Colombo-3.
This 1955 musical narrates about two lovers on the range, based on the musical by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, from the 1931 play Green Grow the Lilacs by Lynn Riggs.
Released in 1955, this Academy Award-winning film was the first production to use the Todd-AO wide screen projection format. A cowboy and a country girl find romance together in Oklahoma, where the wind comes sweeping down the plain. Difficulties soon arise in the form of an additional, unwanted suitor.
In her movie debut, 19-year-old Shirley Jones plays Laurie, an Oklahoma farm gal who is courted by boisterous cowboy Curley (Gordon MacRae) and by menacing, obsessive farm hand Jud Frye (Rod Steiger).
Fearing that Jud will do something terrible to Curley, Laurie accepts Jud’s invitation to the box social. But it’s Curley who rescues Laurie from Jud’s unwanted advances, and in so doing wins her hand. On the eve of their wedding, Laurie and Curley are menaced by the drunken Jud.
Won two Oscars for Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture (for Robert Russell Bennett, Jay Blackton, and Adolph Deutsch) and Best Sound, Recording (Fred Hynes) and was nominated for the Best Cinematography, Color (Robert Surtees) and Best Film Editing (for Gene Ruggiero and George Boemler).
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