In Old Arizona

Starring:Henry Armetta, Warner Baxter, James Bradbury Jr., Joe Brown (III), Dorothy Burgess, John Webb Dillon, Pat Hartigan, Soledad JimÃ©nez, Edmund Lowe, Helen Lynch, J. Farrell MacDonald, Chris-Pin Martin, Duke Martin, Frank Nelson, Lola Salvi, Tom Santschi, Roy Stewart, Raoul Walsh, Fred Warren
Director: Raoul Walsh
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Product Type: DVD

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the bowery boys meet the cisco kid
The Caballero's Way
This is a sleeper - literally
In Old Arizona

In Old Arizona
Starring: Henry Armetta , Warner Baxter , James Bradbury Jr. , Joe Brown (III) , and Dorothy Burgess
Director: Walsh, Raoul
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
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the bowery boys meet the cisco kid.......2006-09-06

this is probably the highest ranking anyone will ever give this film, but i genuinely enjoyed it. warner baxter creates the role of the cisco kid, adapted from an o. henry short story, and it owes more to o. henry than to zane grey; the dialog is punctuated with tough "noo yawk" street lingo of a century ago, and the denouement is pure irony. and incidentally, there is a hilarious exchange between the two lead cowboys where they compare the size of their respective guns. is this for everyone? by no means. but if you are a westerns buff, and are willing to take a look into a different time and a different mindset, give this a try.

The Caballero's Way.......2005-09-14

Set in the late 1890s and featuring Warner Baxter in his Oscar winning role as the Cisco Kid, IN OLD ARIZONA is oddly entertaining. One of the first all-talking movies, its primitive sound recording techniques make it a pretty static `action' western. Although some scenes were shot outdoors - impressively catching the actors' voices without boom mikes showing at the top of the screen - most of the action takes place indoors, if action we can call it, while the actors sit real close to each other and talk loud and slow in interminable dialogues. Missing is the normal musical scoring and under-scoring, although many scenes open and close with picturesque cowboys, pianists, and caballeros singing or strumming an old-timey standard. This odd entertainment will appeal to you if you want to see how films went about figuring out what to do now that they finally had a sound track.

IN OLD ARIZONA is taken from O. Henry's short story "The Caballero's Way." It's a story that's easy to find with a simple internet search and is worth the hunt. The movie is more or less faithful to the source: the Cisco Kid loves Tonia (Dorothy Burgess) who, O. Henry tells us, was `half Carmen, half Madonna, and the rest...let us say, was humming-bird.' The movie Tonia is quite a bit more Carmen than Madonna, though, and it's not long before her roving eyes fall upon calvary Sgt. Mickey Dunn (Edmund Lowe), a bowery boy, transplanted to the old west, who is mesmerized equally by the humming-bird charms of Tonia and the sizable bounty offered for the Cisco Kid, dead or alive. Not quite the antagonist or motivation envisioned by O. Henry, but close enough for the purposes of this movie. With its simple but strong plot in place, IN OLD ARIZONA shows us how this deadly love triangle plays out.

For fans of old movies IN OLD ARIZONA is fascinating. As one of the first big pictures released after the introduction of sound, I was engrossed more by the way the movie's makers used their new toy than with the story. What sound effects do they use for stagecoaches and galloping horses? How do they handle background, or ambient, noise? Not too well, as it turns out. There's a scene in a bar where the directors (Irving Cummings & Raoul Walsh share directing credits) have a piano player sing in the background while a conversation is going on in the foreground. The music more or less drowns out the conversation. Baxter's Mexican accent sounds like it was filtered through Chico Marx. Surprisingly, this was Dorothy Burgess's first movie. Twenty-one years old at the time, her acting, with its languidly paced exaggeration, belongs in a silent film. Usually I like or dislike a movie solely on the content of the story. My reaction to IN OLD ARIZONA is a little different. The story was okay, but there was way too much gibble-gabble, too little action, and a good chunk of the dialogue is hard to follow. I added another star because this is a transitional film, in good condition, and a study of not only what Hollywood was going to do with sound, but also what it would try and discard in the future.

This is a sleeper - literally.......2005-06-21

I have been looking forward to viewing this film for decades. I remember seeing it for sale years ago. When I saw that it was finally coming out on DVD, I was excited!
If you enjoy films from the late silent period and the very earliest of talkies, this is for you - for technical reasons. This was the first all-talking movie shot outdoors. If you study the film to imagine how it was shot and the obstacles that were overcome to produce this film, you'll marvel.
However, if you are looking for content ---well. I know its the first screen appearance of the Cisco Kid. Yes, Warner Baxter is in it. Plus you'll see other early appearances. But as for the story and the long windy dialog...it did put me to sleep. I actually fell asleep and awoke as it was ending. It seemed much longer than the 99 mins listed.
So for historical reasons, I give it a thumbs up and will keep the disk for my collection. But as a drama or a western film, move on to some of the classics of the 1930s.

In Old Arizona .......2005-05-27

Several years ago I found a source for In Old Arizona on VHS. It was a copy of a copy of a......... well , you get the idea.
It was in pretty poor shape. But, it was also the only resource
I could find for this movie.
This movie is not one of Warner Baxter's best movies. But, it is
historically interesting as being the very first talking western and the first appearance of the Cisco Kid. And he's a bad guy in this one too. And overall, I have to give it five stars for the fact that it was new technology and also interesting to see actors that came from the silent era learning to adapt to speaking a part as well as acting it. I am greatful to Fox for taking this movie out of mothballs and restoring it. It is not perfect but, considering the version I had previously, it is pretty near it. Well worth adding to a movie collector's collection.

Western Four-Pack (The Bravados / Buffalo Bill / Drums Along the Mohawk / In Old Arizona)

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Western Four-Pack (The Bravados / Buffalo Bill / Drums Along the Mohawk / In Old Arizona)
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Director: Henry King , William A. Wellman , and John Ford
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
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