In Old Arizona (1928) – Robert Osborne – Chon Noriega Intro (2009-05-05) – Latino Images In Film
In Old Arizona (1928) – Robert Osborne – Chon Noriega Intro (2009-05-05) – Latino Images In Film
In Old Arizona (1928) – The Cisco Kid’s faithless lover plots to turn the bandit in for the reward.
In Old Arizona was directed by Raoul Walsh and Irving Cummings. It starred Edmund Lowe, Dorothy Burgess, Warner Baxter, Farrell MacDonald, Fred Warren and Henry Armetta.
Warner Baxter won the Academy Award for Best Actor.
Raoul Walsh was cast as the Cisco Kid, as well as being the director; but during a return drive to Los Angeles from Utah, a jackrabbit jumped through the windshield of Walsh’s car, with both the rabbit and the broken glass hitting Walsh in the face. (Safety glass was added to cars the following year.) The damage to Walsh’s right eye necessitated replacing him in the lead role, re-writing the script and re-shooting some scenes with a different director while Walsh recuperated; Walsh thereafter wore the eye patch for which he was known, and eventually lost the eye entirely. Some footage of Walsh, in chase scenes and long shots, remains in the film. – from IMDB
Throughout May 2009, TCM primetime host Robert Osborne was joined by Chon Noriega, a UCLA film professor to discuss Latin Images in Film.
Noriega is professor of cinema and media studies at UCLA and director of its Chicano Studies Research Center. He is author of Shot in America: Television, the State, and the Rise of Chicano Cinema (Minnesota, 2000) and editor of nine books.
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