Cimarron is a 1960 western film based on the Edna Ferber novel Cimarron, featuring Glenn Ford and Maria Schell. It was directed by Anthony Mann, known for his westerns and film noirs.
Ferber's novel was previously adapted in 1931; that version won three Academy Awards.
Cimarron was the first of three epics (the others being El Cid and The Fall of the Roman Empire) Mann directed. Despite high production costs and an experienced cast of western veterans, stage actors, and future stars, the film was released with little fanfare.
The 1950s brought renewed interest in Edna Ferber's works. Show Boat, which had already been filmed in 1929 and 1936, was adapted in a highly successful film in 1951. So Big, which had previously been filmed in 1932, and Giant followed in 1953 and 1956, respectively. In 1960, MGM and Warner Bros. competed to film Ferber novels, Warner producing Ice Palace from a later novel, and MGM remaking Cimarron. These marked the end of the Ferber adaptations, at least until 2008.
The remake of Cimarron saw many changes from both the novel and especially the 1931 film of the same name. With the Civil Rights Movement gaining momentum, the script, written by Arnold
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