Oklahoma (1979) is an independent 16mm film by James Benning, an instructor at the California Institute of the Arts.
Oklahoma! is a 1999 musical film directed by Trevor Nunn and choreographed by Susan Stroman. It starred Hugh Jackman as Curly McLain, Josefina Gabrielle as Laurey Williams, and Maureen Lipman as Aunt Eller.
The 1943 musical play Oklahoma!, written by composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist/librettist Oscar Hammerstein II (see Rodgers and Hammerstein), was adapted into an Academy Award–winning musical film in 1955, starring Gordon MacRae, Shirley Jones (in her film debut), Rod Steiger, Charlotte Greenwood, Gloria Grahame, Gene Nelson, James Whitmore and Eddie Albert.
In 2007, Oklahoma! was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
rly: And uh... hey, while I think about it, how bout, uh, marryin' me? urey: Gracious! What'd I want to marry you for? rly: Uh, well, I dunno, couldn't you maybe think up some reason why you might?
o Annie: I never think of no one unlessin he's with me. ll Parker: Then I'm never gonna leave your side!
urey: [comes out holding laundry hamper] [singing] Oh, what a beautiful mornin'! Oh, what a beautiful day. urey: [sees curly] [speaking] Oh, thought you were somebody. urey: [continues singing while hanging clothesline] I got a beautiful feeling, ev'rythin's goin' my way. urey: [looks at Curly and Aunt Eller] Is this all that's come a-callin' an' already 10 o'clock on a Saturday mornin'?
rly: [singing] Oh what a beautiful morning, Oh what a beautiful day, I got a beautiful feelin', ev'rything's goin' my way.
rly: Well, you got a gun, I see. d Fry: Good 'un. Colt 45. rly: Oooeee, whatcha do with it? d Fry: Shoot things. rly: Oh.
rly: Hey, that's a good lookin' rope you got there. You know Will Parker? Yeah, well he can sure spin a rope! That's a strong hook you got there, Judd. You could hang yourself on that. d Fry: I could what? rly: Uh... hang yourself. It'd be as easy as falling of a log. In fact, you could stand on a log, or a chair if you'd rather. Right about here, see? Just put this here 'round your neck, tie that good up there first, of course, and all you'd have to do would be to fall off the log, or the chair, whichever you'd rather fall off of, and in five minutes or less with good luck you'd be... you'd be dead as a doornail. d Fry: What do you mean by that? rly: Uh, well, then folks would come to your funeral and sing sad songs. d Fry: [in disbelief] Eh. rly: Oh, they would. Oh you never know how many people like you till you're dead!
drew Carnes: [singing] The farmer is a good and thrifty citizen, no matter what the cowman says or thinks! You'll seldom see him drinking in a barroom. rly: [singing] Unless somebody else is buying drinks!
i Hakim: Where are you going? ll Parker: I'm gonna stop Ado Annie from killing your wife! i Hakim: Mind your own business!
urey: I don't see why this had to happen when everything was so fine. nt Eller: Now don't let your mind run on it. urey: [sobbing] I won't ever forget, I tell ya. Never will. nt Eller: That's alright, Laurey baby. You can't forget, just don't try to. Oh, lots of things happen to folks. Sickness or being poor and hungry, being old and a feared to die. That's the way it is, cradle to grave, and you can stand it. There's just one way: you gotta be hardy. You gotta be. You can't deserve the sweet and tender in life unless'n you're tough. urey: I wisht I was the way you are! nt Eller: Oh, fiddlesticks. Scrawny and old... why, you couldn't hire me to be the way I am.
urey: Curly, you're sittin' on a stove! rly: [yelps, jumps up, feels bottom, feels stove] It's cold as a hunk a ice. [curly and laurey laugh]
nt Eller: She likes you. rly: If she liked me any more she'd stick the dogs on me.
rly: Aunt Eller, where'd you get such an uppity niece that wouldn't pay no heed to me? [thinks for a second] Who's the best bronc buster in this 'ere territory? nt Eller: You, I bet. rly: And the best bull-dogger in seventeen counties? [waits for an answer] Me, that's who. And looky here, I'm handsome, ain't I? nt Eller: Purty as a pitcher. rly: And curly headed, ain't I? And bow-legged from the saddle for god knows how long, ain't I? nt Eller: Couldn't stop a pig on the road! rly: Then what else does she want, the damn she mule?
rly: The preacher'd get up and he'd say, "Folks! We are gathered here to moan and groan over our brother Jud Fry, who hung himself up by a rope in the smokehouse." Then there'd be weepin' and wailin' from some of those womern. Then he'd say, "Jud was the most misunderstood man in the territory. People useter think he was a mean, ugly feller! And they called him a dirty skunk and a ornery pig stealer!" But the folks that really knowed him, knowed that beneath them two dirty shirts he always wore, [sings] there beat a heart as big as all outdoors. d Fry: [sings] As big as all outdoors! rly: [sings] Jud Fry loved his feller man! d Fry: [sings] He loved his feller man! rly: [Spoken] He loved the birds of the forest, and the beasts of the field! He loved the mice and the vermin of the barn, and he treated the rats like equals - which was right! And he loved little children! He loved everyone and everything in the whole world... only he never let on, so nobody ever knowed it.
A couple of young cowboys win the hearts of their sweethearts in the Oklahoma territory at the turn of the century. Despite the interference of an evil ranch hand and a roaming peddler. Written by Scott Lane
Set in the times of the early 1900s', the musical is partially about the Indian Territory becoming the state of Oklahoma. Curly is a stubborn cowboy who had trouble admitting his feelings to Laurey, as does she. They both love each other, but have much difficulty telling each other because of their stubborn behaviors and reputation. The story is also set around Ado Annie trying to choose between Will, who has strong feelings for her, and the peddler, who thinks he's a ladies' man and doesn't really want to marry her. Judd, Laurey and Aunt Eller's hired hand, tries to come between Laurey and Curly, because he is alone and has feelings for Laurey. Aunt Eller is a peppy and friendly middle-aged woman who pretty much knows everyone, and everyone respects her. Written by V.
