Product Description

Bandit hero of the Southwest; the Oklahoma Kid defends new pioneers in Territory of 1892, from gang of lawless gamblers.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #19959 in VHS
• Released on: 2000-07-05
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Formats: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Original recording reissued, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of tapes: 1
• Running time: 85 minutes

Customer Reviews

The Gangsters Out West
An unlikely James Cagney stars as the Oklahoma Kid, a gunman wanted by the law, who gets mixed up in the fight against the corruption of the newly settled and built Tulsa. Humphrey Bogart (with the great character name of "Whip McCord") has taken over the town, and when the citizens start trying to reclaim their town, Cagney gets drawn into the fight for personal reasons. Unfortunately, as big a fan as I am of Cagney, it's very hard to swallow him as a horseriding gunman. He puts in a good effort at it and seems to be enjoying himself, but he just doesn't fit into the Old West. Of course, Bogart doesn't fit in either. Dressed all in black (a not-so-subtle message about his character), he sneers his way through the film. Rosemary Lane as the love interest doesn't bring much to the character or film, while Donald Crisp as her father and town judge is solid as usual. There's plenty of action and shooting, and there was some potential with the story, but this film isn't much more than a miscast, routine Western. Nonetheless, it's worth a look to see gangsters out West.

Competent but slightly disappointing star Western...
'The Oklahoma Kid' is competent but slightly disappointing star western memorable for the clash in this guise of its protagonists, more usually seen as gangsters...

The film is generally far more to the living of the Western traditionalists, and it never once allows its size to create an atmosphere of self-importance... Nevertheless it maintains a pleasant tongue-in-cheek approach which makes the occasional tragic moments stand out in even greater relief...

But even with two such big names on hand, 'The Oklahoma Kid' moves tediously against the colorful backgrounds of a colorful era... Cagney--who makes his own law with his fast draw-- brings his cheeky personality to the West without making the slightest change in his standard characterization... Bogart plays it without even the mordant sense of humor that he usually brings to his gangster roles... As a sinister figure all in black, he gives an equally unconvincing performance as an outlaw gang leader who deceitfully obtains saloon and gambling rights in return for letting Cagney's father and brother have rights to a site on which they plan to build a town...

Bogart as a Cowboy?
Cagney and Bogart as Cowboys is something to behold. Bogart was right Cagney does look like a Mushroom. If you saw the movie in the late thirties,it was fun, however it does'nt hold up that well into the nineties.