Arizona | |
Director: | Augustus Thomas Lawrence B. McGill |
Producer: | All-Star Feature Corporation |
Based On: | Arizona, a play, by Augustus Thomas |
Starring: | Cyril Scott Gail Kane |
Cinematography: | Lucien Tainguy |
Distributor: | State's Rights |
Runtime: | 6 reels |
Country: | United States |
Language: | Silent English intertitles |
Arizona is a 1913 American silent Western film directed by Augustus Thomas based on his 1899 play Arizona which on stage starred Vincent Serrano and Eleanor Robson. It is one of the first feature films made in the United States, alongside Cleopatra and Richard III. Cyril Scott plays the lead Lt. Denton.[1] [2]
The lead character, Henry Canby, is sent to Arizona as a Captain in the U.S. Calvary. His superior office has an unfaithful wife. In order to protect the man's reputation, he take the blame for many of the goings on.[4]