Arizona (1940 film)
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| Directed by | Wesley Ruggles |
| Produced by | Wesley Ruggles |
| Written by | Clarence Budington Kelland (story) Claude Binyon |
| Starring | Jean Arthur William Holden Warren William |
| Music by | Stephen Foster Victor Young |
| Cinematography | Fayte Browne |
| Editing by | William A. Lyon Otto Meyer |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
| Release date(s) | December 25, 1940 |
| Running time | 125 minutes |
| Country |  United States |
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Arizona is a 1940 western film starring Jean Arthur, William Holden and Warren William. It was directed by Wesley Ruggles.
Victor Young was nominated for the Academy Award for Original Music Score, while Lionel Banks and Robert Peterson were considered for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction, Black-and-White.
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[edit] Plot
The story is set in the pioneer days of Tucson, Arizona in 1860. Life there is fit only for tough men and one very tough woman, Phoebe Titus (Jean Arthur). She catches the eye of Peter Muncie (William Holden), a handsome young man with a wagon train through Arizona but he soon leaves for California. Phoebe stays in Tucson and pursues her plan of founding a freight line to service the town's booming economy. She meets up with a Confederate dandy named Jefferson Carteret (Warren William) who pretends to help her, but secretly is in cahoots with the town's established shipper. The treacherous pair try everything from slandering her to bribing the Apaches to attack her wagons. Defeat seems inevitable, but Peter returns just in time to help Phoebe.
[edit] Set
Arizona was filmed on a set located just outside the city of Tucson in the Sonoran Desert. After filming, lay dormant for a few years during World War II, but was revived and made into a full studio after the war. The studio continues today as Old Tucson Studios.
[edit] Cast
- Jean Arthur as Phoebe Titus
- William Holden as Peter Muncie
- Warren William as Jefferson Carteret
- Porter Hall as Lazarus Ward, the established shipper
- Edgar Buchanan as Judge Bogardus
- Paul Harvey as Solomon Warner
