Arizona (1940)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.9/10   

Director:

Wesley Ruggles

Escritores:

Clarence Budington Kelland (story)
Claude Binyon (screenplay)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

25 diciembre 1940 (USA)

Género:

Del Oeste

Plot:

Phoebe Titus is a tough, swaggering pioneer woman, but her ways become decidedly more feminine when she falls for California bound Peter Muncie...

Plot Keywords:

Pioneer | Stolen Money | Impersonation | Freight | Murder

Premios:

Nominated for 2 Oscars.

Comentarios de los usuarios:

This film is doubly synonymous with its location.

Reparto

Jean Arthur	...	Phoebe Titus
William Holden	...	Peter Muncie
Warren William	...	Jefferson Carteret
Porter Hall	...	Lazarus Ward
Edgar Buchanan	...	Judge Bogardus
Paul Harvey	...	Solomon Warner
George Chandler	...	Haley - Ward Henchman
Byron Foulger	...	Pete Kitchen
Regis Toomey	...	Grant Oury
Paul Lopez	...	Estevan Ochoa
Colin Tapley	...	Bart Massey
Uvaldo Varela	...	Hilario Callego - Phoebe's Young Helper
Earl Crawford	...	Joe Briggs
Griff Barnett	...	Sam Hughes (as Griff Barnette)
Ludwig Hardt	...	Meyer

Duración:

125 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés | Español

Color:

Negro y Blanco

Relación de Aspecto:

1.37 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)

Clasificación:

USA:TV-G (TV rating) | Finland:S | Sweden:15 | USA:Approved (PCA #6272)

Locaciones de Filmación:

Old Tucson - 201 S. Kinney Road, Tucson, Arizona, USA

Compañía:

Columbia Pictures Corporation

Trivialidades:

In 1940, when this film was released, Jean Arthur was forty years old and her "love Interest", William Holden was only twenty-two.

Errores:

Anacronismos: In the scene where the Apache raiders are fleeing the cattle stampede, modern tire tracks can be seen (possibly those of the camera vehicle driving ahead of the riders).

Citas:

Peter Muncie: I figure it sounds crazy to most people... going to California just to see it. But there's a gallivanted bug in my blood and that's the way I am.

Conexiones de Película:

Apareció en The Last Round-up (1947)

Banda de Sonido:

Battle Hymn of the Republic

This film is doubly synonymous with its location.

The story line in this film is basically fictional, but real names of people who lived in Tucson, Arizona Territory, in the late nineteenth century are given to members of the cast, and the set that was created specifically for its production still exists just over the hill from the real Tucson of today. As someone who remembers visiting that set during filming in 1940, I am still impressed by the place and by this film. Jean Arthur's character was indeed a prototype of the independent frontierswoman . But even more important from the perspective of today as I stand among the remnants of the old set (still used, together with a sound stage on the property, to produce "Westerns") and look back sixty years just as the producers looked back sixty years for their story, I think of it as a story within a story. Anyone visiting Arizona today would do well to think of the film "Arizona" as a true picture of 1880 and, in another context, of 1940, and let their imaginations wander. The social attitudes and mores of both periods stand in great contrast to those of the 21st century.