The Oklahoma Kid

Both Cagney and Bogart are out of their element in this fanciful western, but they make the best of it and provide some great campy scenes. Cagney is the title character, a sort of Robin Hood type who is the black sheep of a do-good family. The film opens at the time of the Oklahoma land rush in 1893, when the government opened up the fertile lands of the Cherokee Strip to homesteaders. Thousands of frontier families rush for the land at the sound of the gun and these include Sothern and his son Stephens, who have already picked out a site for a new town. But by the time they arrive at the spot, they are greeted by Bogart and his outlaw band, who have ignored the p...