THE OKLAHOMA KID.
James Cagney & Humphrey Bogart,
Rosemary Lane, Donald Crisp, Ward Bond.
Dir: Lloyd Bacon, 1939, Warner Bros.

SYNOPSIS:
Very, very queer goings on in the old west. Basically it's a gangster flick with spurs, tassled leather and those stupid hats that cowboys wear. The film's novelty makes it a curiosity but the problem is that it isn't, in any way, an interesting film. You can almost see them yawning as they plod through the dim plot.

"We researched it and came up with, I thought, some interesting things I wanted to do. Pretty exciting things. Warner's, without warning, pulled Ted Paramore off the script and changed directors. When I got the final script it had as much to do with the actual history of mountain men as the Katzenjammer Kids."
- Jimmy Cagney.

REVIEWS:
"There's something entirely disarming about the way he has tackled horse opera, not pretending for a minute to be anything but New York's Jimmy Cagney all dressed up as a Robin Hood of the old West."
- Frank Nugent.