John Wayne movie, 1943 Hi Def, War of the Wildcats



In Old Oklahoma stars Wayne as cowboy Dan Somers, who in 1906 Oklahoma hitches a ride aboard the private train car belonging to oil magnate Jim Gardner (Dekker). Gardner, at that moment, is trying to seduce Catherine Allen (Martha Scott), a schoolteacher moving out west following the notoriety of the salacious romance novel she’s written.

Leave it to Republic Pictures to get to the party a little late, for it wasn’t until 1943 that In Old Oklahoma (retitled War of the Wildcats for its re-release) appeared, rather clumsily melding an oil drilling scenario onto a more traditional western setup (both Boom Town and Flowing Gold had featured “contemporary” timeframes). Perhaps rather surprisingly War of the Wildcats is played for laughs, at least some of the time, and John Wayne segues quite well between these elements and his more traditional milieu of a rootin’ tootin’ guns a-blazin’ hero.

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