One of the most ambitious films that we have seen, is a production of which the Selig Polyscope Company may well be proud. As a spectacle it embodies the results of a vast amount of stage work, and the story it unfolds is clear, dramatic, and exhilarating, with never a moment in it that is not tense, without being morbid. It looks on the screen like a photographic realization of a story by Fennimore Cooper or Mayne Reed. To a happy Arizona homestead comes a message to a girl staying there that she must hasten home. "Home" lies across the desert, across which she is escorted. In camp, a rejected Mexican suitor turns the horses adrift, and the little band of persons in charge of the girl is thus at the mercy of a horde of Apache Indians. Finally, after many thrilling adventures, in which the rifle plays a conspicuous part, rescue is effected by United States soldiers, a carrier pigeon conveying a message from the party in peril, and a splendid piece of drama ends happily. Great expense must have been gone to in staging the crowds of performers, and for horse hire, uniforms and so forth; but the result has justified the outlay, for the Selig Company has scored a distinct success with "In Old Arizona." Its reception by the audience on the occasion when we saw it was unmistakably enthusiastic. - The Moving Picture World, January 16, 1909
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