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Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaIn 1906, on Oklahoma's Indian lands, a cowboy fights for oil lease rights against a greedy oilman while a pretty schoolteacher steals both men's hearts.In 1906, on Oklahoma's Indian lands, a cowboy fights for oil lease rights against a greedy oilman while a pretty schoolteacher steals both men's hearts.In 1906, on Oklahoma's Indian lands, a cowboy fights for oil lease rights against a greedy oilman while a pretty schoolteacher steals both men's hearts.
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Foncilla Adams
- Girl
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Stanley Andrews
- Mason - Indian Agent
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Charles Arnt
- Joe - Train Conductor
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- QuizSidney Blackmer made a career out of playing Teddy Roosevelt. He played him eight times in various film projects. 1-"This Is My Affair" (1937) 2-"The Monroe Doctrine" (1939) 3-"Teddy the Rough Rider" (1940) 4-"March On, America!" (1942) 5-"In Old Oklahoma" (1943), 6-"Bill "Buffalo Bill" (1944) 7-"My Girl Tisa" (1948) 8-"Never Kick a Man Upstairs" (TV Movie) (1953).
- Citazioni
Bessie Baxter: We've got a long way to go, and a short time to get there.
- ConnessioniEdited into Six Gun Theater: In Old Oklahoma (2021)
Recensione in evidenza
One of Poverty Row studio Republic's intermittent big-budget efforts, War of the Wildcats is a lively, if fairly routine, western notable for its early 20th-century setting. Wayne plays Daniel F. Somers, formerly one of Teddy Roosevelt's rough riders, who finds himself entangled in a love-and-oil battle with Albert Dekker. Wayne is fairly amiable here, representing the old west and the little man forced to adapt in the face of modern technology and the dawn of big business. Dekker, of course, represents this future. He drives one of them new-fangled auto-mobeels and is erecting oil wells just as fast as he can. He is also dismissive of the native population he even has one, a Cherokee, scrub his back as he takes a bath while Wayne shows them respect and receives it in return. I'm not quite sure how that stacks up today, given our knowledge that the treatment of the native American by the old west fell somewhat short of what can be considered fair.
Anyway, possibly the best aspect of this film is that Dekker's character isn't portrayed as an out-and-out villain, driven only by greed. He is smart and relatively sophisticated, and also brave. Anyone who has ever had the experience of working with or for a 'captain of industry' (for want of a better term) or a self-made man, will probably recognise oilman Gardner's characteristics exactly as those that account for the success of these people. They aren't necessarily bad people, just ruthless enough to do whatever is necessary in pursuit of their goals.
Martha Scott is a fairly bland heroine it's difficult to see why such rugged individuals as Somers and Gardner would both be so keen to bed her. Gardner's frankness in this matter is also refreshing given the times in which this film was made. He makes no secret of what he desires from Catherine and doesn't resort to any particular underhand tactics to make his desires come true. Of course, he doesn't succeed it would be another quarter of a century before Hollywood would allow a character like Jim Gardiner to win the girl (and the oil).
Anyway, possibly the best aspect of this film is that Dekker's character isn't portrayed as an out-and-out villain, driven only by greed. He is smart and relatively sophisticated, and also brave. Anyone who has ever had the experience of working with or for a 'captain of industry' (for want of a better term) or a self-made man, will probably recognise oilman Gardner's characteristics exactly as those that account for the success of these people. They aren't necessarily bad people, just ruthless enough to do whatever is necessary in pursuit of their goals.
Martha Scott is a fairly bland heroine it's difficult to see why such rugged individuals as Somers and Gardner would both be so keen to bed her. Gardner's frankness in this matter is also refreshing given the times in which this film was made. He makes no secret of what he desires from Catherine and doesn't resort to any particular underhand tactics to make his desires come true. Of course, he doesn't succeed it would be another quarter of a century before Hollywood would allow a character like Jim Gardiner to win the girl (and the oil).
- JoeytheBrit
- 15 giu 2008
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