The Arizona Express

1924 film

March 23, 1924 (1924-03-23)

Running time

76 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageSilent (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.

Cast

Pauline Starke as Katherine Keith
Evelyn Brent as Lola Nichols
Anne Cornwall as Florence Brown
Harold Goodwin as David Keith
David Butler as Steve Butler
Francis McDonald as Victor Johnson
Frank Beal as Judge Ashton
William Humphrey as Henry MacFarlane
Otto Hoffman as Desk Clerk (uncredited)
Bud Jamison as Thug Driver (uncredited)
Sherwood Mertz (Undetermined Secondary Role, uncredited)

Preservation

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

References

^ "Progressive Silent Film List: Arizona Express". silentera.com. Retrieved September 5, 2011.
^ Solomon p.287
^ Sloane, Henriette (March 29, 1924). "Box Office Reviews: The Arizona Express". Exhibitors Trade Review. New York: Exhibitors Review Publishing Corporation: 26. Retrieved October 24, 2022. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
^ Kear, Lynn (2009). Evelyn Brent: The Life and Films of Hollywood's Lady Crook. p. 139. ISBN 978-0-7864-4363-5.
^ "Arizona Express". American Silent Feature Film Survival Database. Retrieved January 9, 2014.