The Boy from Oklahoma (1954)
The Boy from Oklahoma (1954)
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC | 4:3 | 720x480 | 6800 kbps | 4.6Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps
01:28:00 | USA | Western
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC | 4:3 | 720x480 | 6800 kbps | 4.6Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps
01:28:00 | USA | Western
Tom Brewster, handy with a rope but not a gun, rides into town and mails his lawyer's exam. When his lack of ability with a gun is exposed, the town boss Turlock offers him the job of Sheriff but he refuses. When the mail is robbed leaving him without a job to ride to, he changes his mind. But Turlock has misjudged Tom and Tom without a gun is soon on the trail of the former Sheriff's killer and it will lead to Turlock.
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Will Rogers Jr., Nancy Olson, Lon Chaney Jr., Anthony Caruso, Wallace Ford, Clem Bevans, Merv Griffin, Louis Jean Heydt, Sheb Wooley, Slim Pickens, Tyler MacDuff, James Griffith, Emile Avery, Monte Blue, John L. Cason, George Chesebro, Jack Daly, Billy Dix, Herman Hack, James W. Horan, Ray Jones, Harry Lauter, George Lloyd, Ted Mapes, Frank Marlowe, Tom Monroe, Montie Montana, Jack Montgomery, Jack Mower, Bud Osborne
The Boy from Oklahoma (1954)
The Boy from Oklahoma (1954)
After about the first ten minutes of this movie, realization dawned - the 1950s television show, "Sugarfoot" was based upon this good-natured Will Rogers, Jr., Michael Curtiz oater of a young lawyer wanna-be attending school via correspondence; the hero's name, Tom Brewster is only the beginning.
The screenplay for this movie and the pilot of "Sugarfoot," titled "Brannigan's Boots" is so close that even the co-stars of "Boy" appear as their same characters in "Brannigan!" For example, Sheb Wooley plays the foreman of the mayor's ranch, Pete Martin, in both movie and TV show. Also doing double duty is Slim Pickens as Shorty!
Some of the dialog is also word for word although the television version is somewhat annotated and a few changes are evident. The movie Tom Brewster doesn't use a gun, instead, he's quick with a rope, as was his father in real life, that wicked twine twirler and American icon, Will Rogers. In fact, this Tom can't use a gun whereas the television Tom as portrayed by Will Hutchins, can and does, when the need arises. The movie Tom gets the heroine, or at least her promise that she'll wait for him; while the TV Tom must push on, leaving the pretty young thing to pine after what might have been.
"Boy From Oklahoma" is well-filmed in color; has a likable hero in the junior Rogers and spawned a pretty darned good TV show to boot!
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The Boy from Oklahoma (1954)
The Boy from Oklahoma (1954)
