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4.56-Cimarron with Kevin Pettit

July 10, 2026 • The Oscar Project • Season 4 • Episode 56

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Today's episode is my conversation about the 1931 film Cimarron. I'm joined by Kevin Pettit from the See You At the Movies newsletter and we talk about the unbelievable scale of the world created for this film, the absolute character that is Yancey Cravat, and several excellent double features that you can pair with this film.

You can watch Cimarron online or purchase a copy for yourself and be sure to check out Kevin's newsletter.

Other films mentioned in this episode include:

Men in Black directed by Barry Sonnenfeld
Dodgeball directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber
Cross Creek directed by Martin Ritt
Rebel Without a Cause directed by Nicholas Ray
Predator directed by John McTiernan
Mad Max: Fury Road directed by George Miller
Jackass: The Movie directed by Jeff Tremaine
Killers of a Flower Moon directed by Martin Scorsese
The Three Amigos directed by John Landis
There Will Be Blood directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
A Few Good Men directed by Rob Reiner
Forrest Gump directed by Robert Zemeckis
To Kill a Mockingbird directed by Robert Mulligan
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance directed by John Ford
My Darling Clementine directed by John Ford
The Searchers directed by John Ford
How Green is My Valley directed by John Ford
Stagecoach directed by John Ford
The Ten Commandments (1923) directed by Cecil B. DeMille
North by Northwest directed by Alfred Hitchcock
All the President's Men directed by Alan J. Pakula
The Addams Family (1991) directed by Barry Sonnenfeld
Thief directed by Michael Mann
King Kong directed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack
The Broadway Melody directed by Harry Beaumont
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King directed by Peter Jackson