--- title: 'Cimarron (1931)' type: 'film' director: 'Wesley Ruggles' released: '1931-02-09' runtime_minutes: 131 genres: - 'Drama' - 'Western' - 'Adventure' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/cimarron-1931' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021746/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Cimarron (1931) 1931 · 131 min · Drama, Western, Adventure · United States ## Synopsis Cimarron is a 1931 American pre-Code epic Western film starring Richard Dix and Irene Dunne, and directed by Wesley Ruggles. Released by RKO Radio Pictures, it won Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Production Design. It is the first of four Westerns to ever win the top honor at the Academy Awards, being followed almost 60 years later by Dances With Wolves in 1990, Unforgiven in 1992, and No Country for Old Men in 2007. ## Credits - **Director:** [Wesley Ruggles](https://cinepixo.com/people/wesley-ruggles) - **Screenplay:** [Howard Estabrook](https://cinepixo.com/people/howard-estabrook) - **Original Music Composer:** [Max Steiner](https://cinepixo.com/people/max-steiner) - **Producer:** [William LeBaron](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-lebaron) - **Director of Photography:** [Edward Cronjager](https://cinepixo.com/people/edward-cronjager) - **Editor:** [William Hamilton](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-hamilton) ## Cast - [Estelle Taylor](https://cinepixo.com/people/estelle-taylor) as Dixie Lee - [William Collier Jr.](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-collier-jr) as The Kid - [George E. Stone](https://cinepixo.com/people/george-e-stone) as Sol Levy - [Walter P. Lewis](https://cinepixo.com/people/walter-p-lewis) - [Douglas Scott](https://cinepixo.com/people/douglas-scott) - [Edna May Oliver](https://cinepixo.com/people/edna-may-oliver) as Tracy Wyatt - [Richard Dix](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-dix) as Yancey Cravat - [Roscoe Ates](https://cinepixo.com/people/roscoe-ates) as Jesse Rickey - [Edith Fellows](https://cinepixo.com/people/edith-fellows) - [Dennis O'Keefe](https://cinepixo.com/people/dennis-o-keefe) - [Judith Barrett](https://cinepixo.com/people/judith-barrett) as Donna Cravat - [Nance O'Neil](https://cinepixo.com/people/nance-o-neil) as Felice - [Stanley Fields](https://cinepixo.com/people/stanley-fields) as Lon Yountis - [Eugene Jackson](https://cinepixo.com/people/eugene-jackson) as Isaiah - [Ethan Laidlaw](https://cinepixo.com/people/ethan-laidlaw) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/cimarron-1931 Film facts: Wikidata (Q251997); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.