Review of Man from Oklahoma

Entertaining it is as usual for a Roy Rogers flick, but a lot of the story doesn't make sense, so just settle back and go along with it. At the center of the story is a decades long feud between the Whittaker clan and the Lane Family, with Roy and Peggy Lane (Dale Evans) on opposite sides. You'd never know it though, since the bickering is more like the good natured variety, and Roy even agrees to drive a Lane wagon during the Oklahoma Land Rush celebration, now in its fifty sixth year! What doesn't seem rational is why both the Whittakers and Lanes would each offer up their half ownership of Lone Valley to the winner of the big race. With your usual expected villain (Roger Pryor) lurking in the background trying to take advantage by sabotaging the race and by proxy, winning the land with its newly discovered oil riches, the heat is on Roy to win the race and outsmart the bad guys. What could have been a bad day for both families is eventually set right when newsreel footage of the race shows how a Gardner henchman sabotaged the rig Roy was racing for the Lanes, thereby earning him the win for both families. I have to agree with another viewer who stated how it would have been impossible to get the incriminating film footage, but one generally doesn't go into these pictures with a rigid reality test. Made for young matinee fans of the Forties, the film makers could dispense with real life and simply go along for entertainment value. This one delivers if you go along with the flow.