You certainly can't call this "The Magnificent Two", because as decent as it is, it's far from magnificent, for a number of reasons. Yeah, like I said, they Hollywooded this thing up, although, if they were really working up the fan service here, then they missed out on a perfect opportunity to look at that picture of Earp at age 33 and make Lancaster's moustache more magnificent than ever, at least to show that it was possible.If you're snickering, I don't know if it's because you're in denial about also having a dude crush on Burt Lancaster, or because you're thinking about how before "The Magnificent Seven", John Sturges missed out on an opportunity to make this "The Magnificent Moustache". Yeah, Robert Strout, I understand that you're worried about being moved to Alcatraz to be put to death, and being separated from the birds that you took in as your only friends, but at least you go out looking good. Yeah, speaking of "Tombstone", maybe I can respect "Wyatt Earp" a little better than most everyone else can because I kind of feel sorry for Wyatt Earp himself, because Hollywood just keeps messing with his truth, although, in all fairness, I don't know how sorry you can feel for someone who ended up being played by Burt Lancaster. If anyone thought that the portrayal of this film's titular gunfight in "Wyatt Earp" was underwhelming, what with its fading to black and all, I can at least give it credit for the accuracy, because the whole brawl didn't last but about 30 seconds or something, but here, they "Tombstone" that baby up, which would be great and all if it didn't take them about as long to get to the gunfight here as it did in the three-hour-long "Wyatt Earp". And other accounts by observers and participants, including several books, are largely self-serving.īut in researching “Tombstone: The Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday, and the Vendetta Ride to Hell,” western historian and former newspaperman Tom Clavin had a lot of additional material to draw on including previous histories of the town and well-researched biographies of many of the participants.Spartacus and, well, to simply sum up the awesomeness, "Burt Lancaster" join forces in the Old West to take down some sorry criminals, so for those of you who like action, get excited, and for you historians, well, tough luck.
Primary sources, including witness testimony in court proceedings and reports in the boomtown’s two rival newspapers, are contradictory and laced with lies. Corral are not the only obstacles facing a writer intent on telling the true story of Tombstone. Myths surrounding the Earps, Wyatt’s pal Doc Holliday (who was far from the deadeye shot he’s been made out to be), and the gunfight at the O.K.
Marshal, and he remained a lawman for nearly all of his time in Arizona.
#GUNFIGHT AT THE O.K. CORRAL PARTICIPANTS MOVIE#
They were relatively young men–Wyatt, the middle brother, just 31–when they joined a growing community of shopkeepers, prospectors, gamblers, prostitutes, and rustlers drawn by a silver strike in the nearby Dragoon Mountains.Īs some popular accounts, including “Tombstone,” the 1993 movie starring Kurt Russell, would have it, Wyatt and his older brother Virgil had forsaken their previous profession as lawmen, but that’s not exactly true. In 1881, five Earp brothers gathered in hopes of finding their fortunes in Tombstone, Arizona, the last boomtown in what was still left of the untamed American West.
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