Arizona on AllMovie

This silent Western proved to be one of Douglas Fairbanks' few genuine flops. Based on a play by Augustus Thomas, Arizona is the story of an Eastern military lieutenant who saves a remote post from marauding Indians. Fairbanks, who also directed this, his second-to-last film for Paramount-Artcraft, had played an Eastern dude out West many times before, but this time the story surrounding the Fairbanksian hi-jinx was too lethargic for comfort and possessed few of the qualities that had made The Man from Painted Post or The Knickerbocker Buckaroo so enjoyable.