Week Fifty-One
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| "Arizona Days" 1937 |
MOVIE NAME: ARIZONA DAYS
STUDIO: BOOTS AND SADDLES PICTURES INC.
PRODUCER: EDWARD F. FINNEY
DIRECTOR: JOHN ENGLISH
DATE: 1937
TYPE: WESTERN, with songs
CAST:
TEX RITTER as Tex Malinson , SYD SAYLOR as "Grass" Hopper , WILLIAM FAVERSHAM as Professor McGill , ELEANOR STEWART as Marge Workman, FORREST TAYLOR as Harry Price, SNUB POLLARD as Cook, GLEN STRANGE as Pete , HORACE MURPHY as Sheriff Brown ,EARL DWIRE as Joe Workman , BUD BUSTER as Sheriff Ed Higginbotham ,SALLY HOMES as Salty , OSCAR GAHAN as Ethelind Terry , TOMMY BUPP, as Billy Workman(uncredited)
SOURCE 1: A F I, Catalog of Feature Films 1931-1940
SOURCE 2: Internet Movie Database (IMDb) , Webpage
Note:AFI has no record of Tommy in this movie, but The Internet Database does have him as an uncredited player. Tommy has a fairly large part which runs through many scenes and includes a dying scene.
SONGS:"Tombstone Arizona," "High, Wide and Handsome," "Arizona Days," "Looking For Love," "If Love Were Mine"
STORY: Tex Malinson and his sidekick "Grass" Hopper, are a couple of roaming cowboys who follow Professor McGill's Minstrel Show hoping to get a part. Tex pays off McGill's debts in exchange for a part and sings at an opera house in Tombstone, Arizona. After Harry Price and his gang enter the theater without paying, Tex holds them up during his performance, but gets only the price of admission from them. Price and his gang sneak out, after which McGill's wagon train is burned. Sheriff Ed Higginbotham introduces Tex as a hero to Joe workman, the county commissioner, who hires Tex as a tax collector and gives him room and board at his own ranch, where Tex meets Joe's daughter Marge and little Billy. Price and his gang threaten to run Tex out, but he makes a deal with Price that if he wins a duel between the two, Price must pay his back taxes. Tex wins by shooting the gun out of Prices hand. As Tex gives Billy a music lesson, accompanied by Marge, Price sneaks up from behind and intending to kill Tex, shoots Billy, killing him. Thinking he killed Tex, Price is surprised to see him entering the saloon to collect the tax money. On their way to Tombstone, Tex and Grass are ambushed by Price's gang, and Grass rides back to the ranch for help and ammunition. The gang attempts to steal the tax money from Tex's saddlebags, but they find only hay. Tex then surprises them, holds them at gunpoint and fights with Price, who escapes after knocking Tex out. After Tex revives, he pursues Price and captures him in time to turn him over to the sheriff. Tex and Marge marry and return to McGill's show with Grass.
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