PLAZA THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 73, 27 March 1941, Page 7

PLAZA THEATRE.

Outdoor Action Film

Magnificent in its spectacular abundance of all that makes for great entertainment, Columbia's "Arizona" opens tomorrow at the Plaza. It provides an enthralling, blood-tingling historic background for a romance as moving and as mighty as anything the screen has ever known. Produced and directed by Wesley Ruggles, with ,a cast headed by brilliant Jean Arthur, "Arizona" is the most colourful outdoor action drama since Ruggles's classic "Cimarron"; it, is the breath-taking adventure story of Arizona's glorious birth, of that colourful, adventurous era in American history when fearless pioneers pushed back the lawless frontiers to carve an empire out of the sundrenched desert and plain. Set in Tucson, Arizona, in 1860, when that frontier city was a walled fortress protecting its inhabitants from the murderous onslaught of untamed Apaches, "Arizona" traces riot, only the colourful character of that tumultuous era of America in the making, but the turbulent wars which raged with Arizona as the prize. Wars between settlers and Indians for the right to liye, wars between killers and civilisation builders for the right to flourish, war between the North and the South for the right' to rule .. . and against the rich romantic background of these everpresent threats, is told the delightful, exciting story of Phoebe Titus, lone white woman among a thousand men and dashing Peter Muncie, her casual, eager sweetheart.