The Cimarron Kid

The Cimarron Kid (1952)

He led the last great outlaw raids !

After being falsely accused of a payroll heist, The Kid heads for the high country where he joins a gang of outlaws slaughtered during a daylight bank robbery. Hiding out in a local ranch, he falls in love with the rancher's daughter, who tries to rehabilitate the cowboy.

Date of release
1952-01-13
TMDB
6.1 / 10 (23)
Runtime
1h 24m
Genres
Western
Director
Budd Boetticher

Casting

Interesting facts

The Cimarron Kid is a 1952 American Western film directed by Budd Boetticher and starring Audie Murphy, Beverly Tyler and Yvette Duguay. It was produced and distributed by Universal Pictures.

Production

The film is based on a story by Louis Stevens. The project was assigned to producer Ted Richmond at Universal Pictures as a vehicle for Audie Murphy in April 1951.

The Cimarron Kid is the first Western film directed by Budd Boetticher, who later became famous for his work in the genre. He later said, "I became a Western director because they thought I looked like one and they thought I rode better than anyone else. And I didn't know anything about the West." It was also Boetticher's first film in color and his first under a long-term contract with Universal Pictures.

In the original script, Bill Doolin dies at the end of the film, but the studio changed the ending it to reflect Murphy's rising popularity.

The railroad scenes were filmed on the Sierra Railroad in Tuolumne County, California.

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