Irving Cummings Articles

IN OLD ARIZONA Review: Part I To play the Cisco Kid, a role fit to order for the dashing and lighthearted Mexican heartthrob Ramon Novarro (then at MGM), Fox† replaced actor-director Raoul Walsh, who was seriously injured in a road accident during a location-scouting trip, with second-rank leading man Warner Baxter [photo, with Dorothy Burgess]. (Walsh, who lost an eye as a result of the [...]

IN OLD ARIZONA (1928) Direction: Raoul Walsh and Irving Cummings Cast: Edmund Lowe, Warner Baxter, Dorothy Burgess Screenplay: Tom Barry; from O. Henry's (aka William Sidney Porter) 1907 short story "The Caballero's Way" Oscar Movies, Pre-Code Movies Warner Baxter, In Old Arizona TIRED IN THE SADDLE What makes Irving Cummings and Raoul Walsh's In Old Arizona (barely) watchable decades after its highly successful initial release [...]