The Oklahoman (Allied Artists, 1957)
Modest but enjoyable . . Producer Walter Mirisch (left) had already done two Westerns with Joel McCrea, Wichita, for Warners in 1955, a classy Jacques Tourneur-directed oater with McCrea as Wyatt Earp, and the slightly more pedestrian but still entertaining biopic of Sam Houston The First Texan for Allied Artists in ’56. The contract called for […]