IN OLD ARIZONA – Warner Baxter, Edmund Lowe
In Old Arizona (1928)
Direction: Raoul Walsh and Irving Cummings
Screenplay: Tom Barry; from O. Henry’s (aka William Sidney Porter) 1907 short story "The Caballero’s Way"
Cast: Edmund Lowe, Warner Baxter, Dorothy Burgess
TIRED IN THE SADDLE
What makes Irving Cummings and Raoul Walsh’s In Old Arizona (barely) watchable decades after its highly successful initial release is its sheer bizarreness. Technically, the picture, billed as the first outdoor talkie, is of interest solely as a museum piece. Despite the use of the American Southwest’s wide-open spaces as background, In Old Arizona is really not that different from other static, slow-moving, and poorly acted films of the period. From a thematic standpoint, however, this racy Western is a must-see because of its in-your-face pre-Production Code sensibility, [...]
by Andre Soares | September 14, 2004
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Tags: Classic Movies, Dorothy Burgess, Edmund Lowe, Film Reviews, Gay Interest, In Old Arizona, Irving Cummings, Oscar 1929, Oscar Movies, Pre-Code Hollywood, Raoul Walsh, Warner Baxter, Westerns
