The Arizona Express Explained

Arizona Express
Director:Tom Buckingham
Starring:Pauline Starke
Evelyn Brent
Cinematography:Blake Wagner
Distributor:Fox Film Corp.
Runtime:76 minutes
Country:United States
Language:Silent (English intertitles)

Arizona Express is a 1924 American silent crime drama film directed by Tom Buckingham and starring Pauline Starke and Evelyn Brent.[1] [2]

Plot

As described in a film magazine review,[3] David Keith, although engaged to a young woman of the town, comes to love Lola Nichols, a cabaret dancer who pretends to love him in order to obtain information on the layout of a bank that she and her gang intend to rob. When Keith's uncle discovers the plan, he is killed by one of the woman's confederates. Keith is accused of the murder and sent to prison. Just a few minutes before he is set to be executed, he is pardoned by the governor through the efforts of his sister Katherine and her sweetheart Steve, who have secured evidence that establishes his innocence.

Preservation

Prints of The Arizona Express survive in the Museum of Modern Art.[4] [5]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Progressive Silent Film List: Arizona Express . September 5, 2011 . silentera.com.
  2. Solomon p.287
  3. Sloane . Henriette . Box Office Reviews: The Arizona Express . Exhibitors Trade Review . 26 . Exhibitors Review Publishing Corporation . 29 March 1924 . New York . 24 October 2022.
  4. Book: Kear, Lynn . Evelyn Brent: The Life and Films of Hollywood's Lady Crook . 2009 . 978-0-7864-4363-5 . 139.
  5. Web site: Arizona Express . January 9, 2014 . American Silent Feature Film Survival Database.