Miss Arizona (1919 film)

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Miss Arizona
MissArizona.jpg
Story by George Elliot jr.
StarringGertrude Bondhill
James O'Neill
Production
company
Art-O-Graf
Distributed by Arrow Film Corporation
Release date
  • March 1919 (1919-03)
Running time
5 reels
CountryUnited States
Languages Silent
English intertitles

Miss Arizona is a 1919 western silent film directed by Otis B. Thayer and starring Gertrude Bondhill and James O'Neill. The film was shot in Englewood, Colorado by Thayer's Art-O-Graf film company. [1] [2] [3] [4] There is at least one known 35mm nitro copy of this film stored at Filmarchiv Austria.

Contents

Plot summary

Miss Arizona Farnley, tomboy of the West, avenges the death of her father, who was killed by Bob Evans during a bar fight at The Oasis.

Cast

Crew

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References

  1. "A Guide to Silent Westerns" By Larry Langman, Greenwood press 1992, page 291
  2. "Film and Photography on the Front Range" Pikes peak library District, 2012, page 129
  3. "The Film Daily Year Book of Motion Pictures, Volume 51" Film and Television Daily, 1969, page 852
  4. "American film personnel and company credits, 1908-1920: filmographies reordered by authoritative organizational and personal names from Lauritzen and Lundquist's American film-index" by Paul C. Spehr, Gunnar Lundquist, Einar Lauritzen, McFarland & Company, Inc., Jul 1, 1996, pages 21, 61, 182