The Arizona Kid (1971)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The Arizona Kid |
| Country of production | Philippines |
| original language | Tagalog , English |
| Publishing year | 1970 |
| length | 111 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Luciano B. Carlos |
| script | Lino Brocka |
| production | Premiere Productions ( Cirio H. Santiago ) |
| music | Restie Umali |
| camera | Felipe Sacdalan |
| cut | Ben Barcelon |
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The Arizona Kid is a Filipino western comedy filmed in Spain and marketed under the slogan "filmed in Arizona, USA" . The film, which is not shown in the German-speaking area, premiered on September 5, 1970 in the Philippines.
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Ambo comes to the western United States at the beginning of the 20th century to bring his uncle a barrel of bagoong . In San Francisco, he learns from a letter deposited in a Chinese-run laundry that the relative has moved on to Mexico. Filippino, who does not speak English, goes south in a stagecoach, experiences both rejection by the other passengers (because of the foul-smelling spice) and an attack and is later put into the fresh air near the village of El Dorado due to lack of money. He gets a job as a kitchen assistant at the local cantina owner Don José, but when he annoys the stagecoach robbers who reappeared around leader Billy with an unsavory soup, his boss and not Ambo have to pay with his life for it.
At the funeral, the Asian gets to know the attractive niece of the dead named Ramona. She complains to him of the suffering of her village community in Sierra Vista, which is being terrorized by the evil crook "Coyote". She and her father Don Miguel put all hope in the hit man "Arizona Kid", who actually cleaned up Billy's horde, but is murdered a little later by the leader of a second outlaw bunch. Now good advice is quite expensive; Pamerla's brave friend Leonardo offers himself to fight the arch villain, but that scares his lover very much. On their ride to Sierra Vista, the trio comes across Sharon Miller, who is fighting against Indians in a covered wagon and who actually intends to become a rancher. After they are rescued, it is the voluptuous blonde who makes the proposal to let Ambo act as the "Arizona Kid" in order to instill at least a little courage in the terrified local population. Pamela's father reluctantly agrees to the ruse, while Filippino doesn't think much of the idea.
Sharon's well-grown breasts and other seductive skills change his mind; he learns more badly than right to use the revolver and is required to face the "Coyote" who soon appears with his men in Sierra Vista. With his fearful jokes, Ambo manages to hold off the vastly superior scoundrels until Leonardo arrives just in time with the villagers who are now willing to fight and creates a distraction - in the subsequent struggle for the revolver, a shot suddenly goes off and "Coyote" sinks fatally hit the ground. Ambo is then of course the hero of the day, but doesn’t let himself be stopped from transporting the Bagoong to his uncle in Mexico. Sharon in love accompanies him.
Remarks
- The film, a curiosity in production, marketing, and cast, was rarely shown in the western world.
- Chiquito (actually Augusto V. Pangan Sr. / 1932-1997) was a popular Filipino comedian. He often shot under his own direction, including other western parodies such as Ponso Villa and the Sexy Mexicanas (1969) or comic film adaptations of biblical subjects such as Si Samson at Si Delilah (1972).
- Mariela Branger was Miss Venezuela of the year 1967. After that, she received some film offers, but the majority declined; The Arizona Kid remained her only screen interlude before she married a Dominican businessman in 1972 and retired to the island nation there.
Individual evidence
Web links
- The Arizona Kid in the Internet Movie Database (English)