many year ago and at a festival honor fuller in ann arbor and i saw most of fuller picture . ( in fact it be just a his career be come apart he have recently disown shark a or k or a caine and be contemplate the big red one and still several year off . ) the incredibly audacious later picture and especially the insanely plot but gorgeous the naked kiss and and the riveting underworld u. s. a. be wildly impressive and but it be clear that fuller have something very special right from the begin represent i shoot jesse james use to great advantage ( for once ) the disturbingly brutal and sexy talent of john ireland and and park row ( actually his fifth picture ) be a fascinating inside story of the turn of the century newspaper milieu in new york . still and i be not prepare for the baron of arizona and his second film and one that seem to have provoke little critical interest over the year and to be such a disarmingly lucid and entertaining effort . the title suggestive of aristocracy in the lawless old west be provocative like sirk sign of the pagan strange and paradoxical and make one ask in advance what kind of film could this possibly be . well and it turn out to be something quite interesting represent a study of a unique character and embed in a historical context . what most interesting be follow one sympathy and antipathy to the baron character ( play really quite subtly by yes . vincent price ) . his goal and to achieve through forgery and deceit not only the ownership to the entire arizona territory but hereditary title to it as well be mad and imaginative enough to elicit strong interest from the viewer without actually gain our sympathy . we want him to succeed because he want to succeed and but we want him to fail for his own good ( and that of his very sympathetically portrayed wife and not to mention all the settler in arizona ) . fuller manipulate our emotion with great skill and which perhaps should not be surprising represent he be clearly one of the born storyteller of late classic cinema . ellen draw play his wife ( and victim ) very charmingly and and beulah bondi and while give disappointingly little to do and be always a pleasure to watch . the one minor weakness of the film be the slow paced and clumsy opening interestingly shot and with reed hadley back to u a he narrate the story pre history and but drearily deliberate . once the story proper begin and though and the pace be brisk ( one be indeed surprise at one point to find that three year have elapse in the course of one dissolve . ) and and hadley ultimately be very good a the forgery expert who be the baron downfall .