The year 1938 was an off year for Westerns. Cecil B. DeMille hadn’t traveled West since making The Plainsman in 1936, while Stagecoach and Jesse James were still a year away. Major studio heads thought Westerns were strictly bread and butter for “B” outfits grinding out six-day features and serials. Columbia Pictures’ tough-minded president, Harry Cohn, took a stand by backing a script for a big-budget Western, Arizona, assigning his newest star William Holden to the lead and pairing
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