Faithful, but James Garner, bless his heart, is about as menacing as Jim Rockford. It begins with the shootout, over in a flash, rather than with the elaborate choreography of our first two films, and covers the murder charges filed by Ike Clanton ( Robert Ryan) against Wyatt Earp ( James Garner) and Doc Holliday ( Jason Robards), the subsequent murder of Morgan Earp, until now neglected in the legends, and the final score-settling.
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John Sturges apparently took enough historical criticism of Gunfight to display in large caps “THIS IS THE WAY IT HAPPENED” before his second movie about the event. HOUR OF THE GUN / / Prime Video / Streaming / Trailer /1967 /Unrated
Though Wyatt Earp wounded Frank McLaury with a shot in the stomach, Frank managed to get off a few shots before collapsing, as did Billy Clanton. CORRAL / / Prime Video / Streaming / Trailer /1957 /TVPG
More for students of cinema history than American history. With Henry Fonda as Wyatt Earp and a surprisingly hardy Victor Mature as consumptive Doc Holliday, My Darling Clementine inhabits the same space in the American psyche as does Tyrone Power and Henry Fonda as Jesse and Frank James. Corral.” įord took as his sources for My Darling Clementine Stuart Lake’s 1931 biography (published two years after Earp’s death) and his 1946 book of the same name while both books have been subsequently found to be largely fiction, they popularized the shootout among the general public. “I used to give him a chair and a cup of coffee, and he told me about the fight at the O.K. Director John Ford said that when he was a prop boy in the early days of silent pictures, Wyatt Earp would visit pals he knew from his Tombstone days on the sets.
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