“That Ramrod Guy From Whichita is Bullet-Hot as the Greatest Plainsman of Them All !”
After his wife dies in childbirth, a doctor settles down in the small Oklahoma town of Cherokee Wells to raise his newborn daughter. Unfortunately, not all the citizens there are hospitable, especially when the doctor hires a pretty Indian teenager as his child's nanny.
Joel McCrea
John
Barbara Hale
Anne
Brad Dexter
Dobie
Gloria Talbott
Maria Smith
Michael Pate
Charlie Smith
Verna Felton
Mrs. Waynebrook
Douglas Dick
Mel Dobie
Anthony Caruso
Jim Hawk
Esther Dale
Mrs. Fitzgerald
Adam Williams
Bob Randell
The Oklahoman is a western film released in 1957 exploring themes of oklahoma, gunfight, widower, land owner. Directed by Francis D. Lyon, it stars Joel McCrea, Barbara Hale, Brad Dexter. After his wife dies in childbirth, a doctor settles down in the small Oklahoma town of Cherokee Wells to raise his newborn daughter. Unfortunately, not all the citizens there are hospitable, especially when the doctor hires a pretty Indian teenager as his child's nanny.
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