Arizona is a sprawling and overlong western of the pioneer community in Tucson. It is handsomely produced and has unusual feminist subtext for the time.
Phoebe Titus (Jean Arthur) is the only American woman in the frontier in 1861. She is setting up a freight company but we first see her holding up some men at gunpoint who have stole from her.
Phoebe is a tough no nonsense woman. Peter Muncie (William Holden) is the young man on a wagon train who catches her eye.
Jefferson Carteret (Warren William) is the hissable villain. A secret partner with the smell of a pole cat to Lazarus Ward who are hellbent on destroying Phoebe's business by stealing her money and then giving it to her back as a loan. When the heat gets too much Carteret shoots anyone who could finger him in the back.
The film has good production values, a great villain but it needed to be tighter and shorter.
Phoebe Titus (Jean Arthur) is the only American woman in the frontier in 1861. She is setting up a freight company but we first see her holding up some men at gunpoint who have stole from her.
Phoebe is a tough no nonsense woman. Peter Muncie (William Holden) is the young man on a wagon train who catches her eye.
Jefferson Carteret (Warren William) is the hissable villain. A secret partner with the smell of a pole cat to Lazarus Ward who are hellbent on destroying Phoebe's business by stealing her money and then giving it to her back as a loan. When the heat gets too much Carteret shoots anyone who could finger him in the back.
The film has good production values, a great villain but it needed to be tighter and shorter.