Arizona
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George B. Seitz
Laura La Plante
John Wayne
June Clyde
Forrest Stanley
Nena Quartaro
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Following the annual Army-Navy football game, star West Point athlete Bob Denton ends his long-running affair with Evelyn Palmer by telling her that he does not love her anymore. She takes the news quietly and asks to spend one last night together, but Bob refuses. He explains that he is to attend that evening's victory ball with his guardian and best friend, Colonel Bonham, who has come from his post in Arizona to see Bob play in the game. Angry that she is not considered suitable to join the group, Evelyn determines to avenge herself. At the dance, she becomes jealous of the attention Bob receives from his beautiful female fans. When the football used in the game is auctioned, both Evelyn and Bonham bid on it for sentimental reasons. Evelyn's bids drive the price up to $500, at which price the colonel buys it. Bonham meets Evelyn after the auction and falls in love with her as the evening passes. Not knowing of her affair with Bob, the colonel asks Evelyn to marry him and return with him to Arizona. Evelyn decides that this will be the means of her revenge against Bob and accepts. When they reach Arizona, Bonham and Evelyn send for her sister Bonita, who has been studying in an Eastern school. After graduating, Bob is assigned to Bonham's command. Bonham has neglected to tell Bob the name of his bride, and so Bob is shocked to discover that she is Evelyn. Bob says nothing, however, and quickly falls in love with Bonita, despite Evelyn's disapproval. Her attitude causes Bonita and Bob to keep their marriage a secret after they elope to Mexico, and when Evelyn sees Bob in what seems to be a compromising situation with another girl, she mistakenly assumes that he has been pursuing other women while conducting a romance with Bonita. Determined to protect her sister and to revenge herself further on Bob, she tells Bonham that Bob tried to embrace her. She succeeds in forcing Bob to resign, but as he is leaving, Bonita tells Evelyn about their secret marriage. Realizing her error, Evelyn confesses her misdeeds to Bonham, and Bob's commission is saved.
Director
George B. Seitz
Cast
Laura La Plante
John Wayne
June Clyde
Forrest Stanley
Nena Quartaro
Susan Fleming
Loretta Sayers
Hugh Cummings
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According to NYSA records, an affidavit for a change of title to Men Are Like That was filed with the New York State censors on July 31, 1931. Reviews, which covered the New York opening on August 13, 1931, listed the new title. The film was copyrighted under the title Arizona. Variety noted that "library shots" of soldiers on parade and the Army-Navy football games were included in the picture. This picture is unrelated to Columbia's 1940 production, Arizona. Other film versions of the play, also titled Arizona, include a 1913 All-Star Feature Corp. production directed by Augustus Thomas and starring Cyril Scott, and a 1918 Douglas Fairbanks Pictures Corp. film directed by Albert Parker and starring Fairbanks (see The AFI Catalog of Feature Films, 1911-20; F1.0143 and F1.0144).
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b&w
reels 7
