This film studio–theme park, originally built for the 1940 motion picture Arizona, has been used to shoot countless movies, such as Rio Bravo (1959) and The Quick and the Dead (1994), and the TV shows Gunsmoke, Bonanza, and Highway to Heaven. Actors in Western garb perform and roam the streets talking to visitors.
Youngsters enjoy the simulated gunfights, rides, stunt shows, and petting farm,...
Despite the name, this is not the historical location of the old city of Tucson -- it's a Western town originally built as the set for the 1939 movie Arizona. In the years since, Old Tucson has been used during the filming of John Wayne's Rio Lobo, Rio Bravo, and El Dorado; Clint Eastwood's The Outlaw Josey Wales; Kirk Douglas's Gunfight at the O.K. Corral; Paul Newman's The Life and Times of...