I Shot Jesse James
1949
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The Baron of Arizona Reviews. All Critics. Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Fernando F. Croce CinePassion. A Balzacian comedy recalled by a man who, like Fuller, can't help...
86% Tomatometer 7 Reviews 69% Audience Score 500+ Ratings Thirty years before Arizona achieves statehood, scam artist James Addison Reavis (Vincent Price) cooks up an elaborate scheme to claim...
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- Vincent Price
- Samuel Fuller
- Western
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42 Reviews. Hide Spoilers. Sort by: Filter by Rating: A Genuine Oddity, Based on Fact. dougdoepke 22 April 2012. Judging from the title, probably more than a few ticket-buyers in 1950 expected a western. What they got instead was a real oddity that defies classification.
44 User reviews. 33 Critic reviews. Photos 26. Top cast. Edit. Vincent Price. James Addison Reavis 'The Baron' Ellen Drew. Sofia de Peralta-Reavis 'The Baroness' Vladimir Sokoloff.
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- Biography, Crime, Drama
- Samuel Fuller
- 1950-03-04
The Baron of Arizona is a 1950 American Western film directed by Samuel Fuller and starring Vincent Price and Ellen Drew. The film concerns a master forger's attempted use of false documents to lay claim to the territory of Arizona late in the 19th century.
Buried in a pauper's grave, his history is too complicated to more than suggest but he was as fantastic a fraud as ever saw print. Pub Date: May 26th, 1967. Publisher: John Day. The story of a real-life landgrabber who became a multimillionaire to rub shoulders with the great Rothschild ""reels the mind and boggles the imagination.""
The Baron of Arizona. In one of his own favorite roles, Vincent Price portrays legendary swindler James Addison Reavis, who in 1880 concocted an elaborate and dangerous hoax to name himself the "Baron" of Arizona, and therefore inherit all the land in the state. Samuel Fuller adapts this tall tale to film with fleet, elegant storytelling and a ...
