The Oklahoma Kid


The Oklahoma Kid is a 1939 western film starring James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart. The movie was directed for Warner Bros. by Lloyd Bacon. Cagney plays an adventurous gunslinger in a broadbrimmed cowboy hat while Bogart portrays his blackclad and viciously villainous nemesis. The film is often remembered for Cagneys character rubbing the thumb and forefinger of his hand together and exulting, Feel that air

While living with Indians in a small cabin, the Kid reads in a newspaper about the arrest of his father. Even though he was cast aside as the blacksheep son, he rides into town in order to free his father from jail. After the Kid raids the jail and enters his fathers cell, John refuses to escape and instead wants to fight his arrest judiciously. The Kid leaves before being caught. Upon learning that the Kid is John Kincaids son, McCord incites a mob at his saloon. Then, led by three of his own men, they break into the jail which allows McCords cronies to lynch Kincaid over the outside balcony of the jailhouse.In exacting vengeance, the Kid tracks down those three who murdered his father. He kills two of them when they dont surrender peacefully, but brings back Ace Doolin Edward Pawley in order to testify against McCord. Ned and the Kid seek out McCord at his saloon. While attempting an arrest, Ned is shot by McCord. The Kid and McCord engage in fisticuffs, and the Kid is nearly killed, but Ned shoots down McCord before dying himself. ........

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