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Western melodrama

Arizona

Year
1918
Length
50 minWikidata 50-minute listing Version sources ↓

A cavalry officer and a ranch community become entangled in accusation, honour, and romance in this screen version of a popular stage play.

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Historical context and source evidence.

The title Arizona crosses worn archival paper between film strips and a cavalry braid.

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What survives

The presumed-lost film is significant as a Douglas Fairbanks drama made before his swashbuckling image fully defined him. Its page documents an absent work rather than pretending ordinary access.

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Approach this as a lost-film record. Surviving reviews and production evidence can establish its place in Fairbanks’s career, but they cannot replace the missing performance. AFI credits Albert Parker as director and notes that later sources also credit Douglas Fairbanks. The Library of Congress includes Arizona in its lost-film list dated 4 February 2021; that dated listing does not establish whether material has since surfaced.

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A quick, non-exhaustive note The film is presumed lost; the story includes coercion, military power, violence, and period representations of the American Southwest.
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Wikidata 50-minute listing 50 min 50 minutes reproduces the single duration stated by the source. The listing does not identify a cut, score, territory, frame rate, source element, or restoration. Source: Wikidata — Arizona Runtime reference · Checked 2026-08-22

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