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Writer:
Edward Anhalt (written by)
Release Date:
1968 (Austria) more
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Wyatt Earp - hero with a badge or cold-blooded killer? more
Plot:
Marshal Wyatt Earp kills a couple of men of the Clanton-gang in a fight. In revenge Clanton's thugs kill the marshal's brother. Thus, Wyatt Earp starts to chase the killers together with his friend Doc Holliday. | add synopsis
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A Lesser-Known 'Earp' Movie more (27 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| James Garner | ... | Wyatt Earp | |
| Jason Robards | ... | Doc Holliday | |
| Robert Ryan | ... | Ike Clanton | |
| Albert Salmi | ... | Octavius Roy | |
| Charles Aidman | ... | Horace Sullivan | |
| Steve Ihnat | ... | Andy Warshaw | |
| Michael Tolan | ... | Pete Spence | |
| William Windom | ... | Texas Jack Vermillion | |
| Lonny Chapman | ... | Turkey Creek Johnson | |
| Larry Gates | ... | John P. Clum | |
| William Schallert | ... | Judge Herman Spicer | |
| Bill Fletcher | ... | County Sheriff Jimmy Bryan | |
| Karl Swenson | ... | Dr. Charles Goodfellow | |
| Austin Willis | ... | Anson Safford | |
| Monte Markham | ... | Tucson Sheriff Sherman McMasters |
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The Law and Tombstone (USA) (working title)
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100 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Mono (Westrex Recording System)
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Singapore:PG | Australia:M | Norway:16 | Netherlands:AL (DVD rating) | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | West Germany:12
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Prior to production, United Artists had made it quite clear to director John Sturges that none of the primary roles were to be filled by the actors who played the same characters in Sturges' previous Wyatt Earp film, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957). Wanting to distinguish this film from the previous one, they demanded different actors be cast in the roles. However, Sturges believed that the roles of Virgil and Morgan Earp from the previous film were small enough that the same actors who played them could do it again without harming the film's uniqueness. The studio agreed and allowed Sturges to cast John Hudson (Virgil Earp) and DeForest Kelley (Morgan Earp). Unfortunately, Hudson had retired from acting in the early '60s and was unwilling to do the role. Kelley, on the other hand, was currently working on the TV series "Star Trek" (1966) and was unable to break away to play Morgan Earp. Thus, both Earp brothers were recast. more
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Factual errors: When Curly Bill Brocius is shot by Wyatt Earp, only a tiny entrance wound is shown in his forehead as he falls over, even though Earp fired a shotgun. A shotgun blast would have blown Brocius's head apart. more
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[The Earps and Doc Holliday approach the O.K. Corral]
Wyatt Earp (Tombstone city marshal:
Ike Clanton, Andy Warshaw, Latigo, Curly Joe Brocious... Who's in the corral, Virg?
Marshal Virgil Earp:
Billy Clanton and the McLowerys.
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Referenced in "Star Trek: Spectre of the Gun (#3.6)" (1968) more
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Here is yet another Wyatt Earp story. I wasn't aware of this version until early in the summer of 2005. I thought I had seen them all. Judging by the amount of reviews in here, I wasn't alone in not knowing about this film. I am glad I got it, but It was just okay; nothing special.
None of the three top characters: James Garner as Earp, Jason Robards as "Doc Holliday" or Robert Ryan as "Ike Clanton" can match up to their best of their counterparts in other Earp films.....but they were still pretty good and certainly three famous actors. The only one who might have been a little out of place was Robards, who played a little too subdued "Doc."
Still, the similarities are there in all the Earp movie versions including this one: the gunfight at the OK Corral, the courtroom trials, the train scene near the end, Holliday's illness, etc. One thing missing from this is any love interest, which actually was nice to have left out for once.