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: #14751 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

Extremely Entertaining Classic Western
My classic-movie-buff friends don't share my fondess for this film, but I thought it was one of the most interesting and entertaining classic westerns I've ever seen.

Of course, having Jimmy Cagney in the lead didn't hurt. He's usually very entertaining and this is no exception. He plays his normal cocky self, but instead of gangster or something else modern-day, he was cowboy. To those too rigid fuddie-duddies who can't see their favorite actors trying different genres - too bad. Cagney as a cowboy?? Why not? He' still the same, great actor and entertainer. Same goes for Humphrey Bogart.

Bogart, as he so often was before he became a mega-star with Casablanca, played the bad guy. He looked like he had a bad toupee, too. I hope that wasn't his real hair!

This was fun to watch right from the get-go and also featured some excellent black-and-white cinematography which made it all the better. At 82 minutes, this is a quick night of entertainment, but I liked that short running time.

Isn't it about time a good DVD of this film was offered?

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.

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.