Review of In Old Arizona (1928) by Kevin N — 03 Oct 2010

As far as sheer entertainment is concerned, this early Raoul Walsh picture gives most films from the period a run for their money. It's downright hysterical- and most of the time we're allowed to laugh with the movie, showing that none of the film's humor has been lost over the eighty-some years of its existence.

Every one of these characters are entirely unsympathetic, but it's hard not to root for the film's boisterous anti-hero, a rendering of the Cisco Kid which won Warner Baxter an Academy Award, who goes through with what is perhaps the most deserved comeuppance in cinematic history.

If nothing else, one cannot accuse the film of prudishness- it fires on all cylinders, and to hell with morality!