A few tell the story from points of view different from earps but this movie concentrates on the location of the whole story. Download the tv guide app for iphone, ipad and android. Synopsis the bulletriddled story of the man too tough for dodge city. Holliday was a dentist who had given up the business of filling.
The young wyatt earp at age 21, taken about 1869, probably in lamar, missouri. Tombstone will seem shockingly violent to those who already like westerns, but for rambo fans, it wont seem out of the ordinary. The supporting cast of this movie about the gunfight at the ok corral also features rex bell as virgil earp and victor jory as ike clanton. Traywick, comoderator boyd mauger, actor hugh obrien, college professor dr.
During the scene in the birdcage theater, val kilmer says, a thermometer was placed on the set, and it read 4 degrees fahrenheit. But if it were not, the movie is so powerful that we wouldnt care one whit what the real history was. At least three people proposition him to use his skills as a lawman in the town, but wyatt wants nothing to do with. The supporting cast features rex bell as virgil earp and victor jory as ike clanton. See more ideas about movies, 90s movies and i movie. Instead james and his wife bessie arrived with wyatt and virgil. A band of outlaws that call themselves the cowboys are causing problems in the region with various acts of random violence, and inevitably come into confrontation with holliday and the earps, which leads to a. Download torrent added 1 year ago in movies mp4 downloaded 12 times. The main career aspiration of wyatt is to make money, and after a set of conversations with other characters of. The three earp brothers who first arrived arrived to tombstone in late 1879 didnt include morgan unlike in the tombstone movie. It is worth mentioning that tombstone is a little, but a quickly developing mining town.
After success cleaning up dodge city, wyatt earp moves to tombstone, arizona, and wishes to get rich in obscurity. The mining camp was born when a prospector named ed schieffelin looked out on the mountains from where he stood at camp huachuca, arizona. Tombstone creek bonner, a 5yearold from phoenix, saves his best jeans for family trips to tombstone. This exciting western centers on former gunslinger wyatt earp, who has been recently deputized and is helping the sheriff round up all the criminals. Becoming more sophisticated in my film watching over the years, i still found i had, perhaps irrationally or unfairly, created. Tombstone complete original motion picture soundtrack. Ike clanton was shot and killed two years later during an attempted robbery. The power of the red sash cowboy gang was broken forever. The movie has a few overthetop moments, and there is perhaps too much story crammed into too little space, but it also has an energetic flow, and a genuinely rugged, exciting feel, unlike many of the more bloated. Wyatt earp cleans up tombstone and faces the clanton gang at the o. Roy barcroft, spencer charters, edgar buchanan, victor jory, don castle, blackjack ward, paul sutton, emmett vogan. After retiring as marshall of dodge city, wyatt has come to tombstone to settle down and run a business. Kilmer suggested jokingly that this was the reason doc holliday killed so many people.
Tombstone is a 1993 american western film directed by george p. Achieving a pitchperfect balance between traditional western film music e. Unlike some towns that are recreated to look western, the buildings in tombstone are. Online tour the golden eagle brewery saloon the town history bird cage theatre ok corral big nose kates boot hill graveyard good enough mine tour tombstone cemetery clanton general store the clanton ranch tombstone tourist guide toughnut mine tour of charleston arizona. One of the last frontier boomtowns in the old american west, tombstone prospered mostly in the late 1800s. Covering the time from the earps arrival in tombstone, az, through the shoot out at the o. Cosmatos, written by kevin jarre who was also the original director, but was replaced early in production, and starring kurt russell and val kilmer, with sam elliott, bill paxton, powers boothe, michael biehn, and dana delany in supporting roles, as well as narration by robert mitchum. Val kilmer has been quoted as saying that screenwriter kevin jarre insisted the actors wear real wool costumes, in accordance with the time period. Later versions of the many films about wyatt earp, his brothers, and doc holliday are better, but this one was still fun to. It also had five local newspapers, at least two theaters, a. Most wyatt earp films are pretty much straightforward. In large measure, this is the obvious moment when wyatt enters the storys adventure world, but notice how he repeatedly and emphatically rejects the call to adventure. The film is rated r for violence, of which there is a fair amount. This is about the fourth movie containing the famous gunfight at the ok corral ive seen and it is the most uneven version.
Mattie died of a drug overdose shortly after she left tombstone. Tombstone is a popular tourist destination, and through its wild west ways have calmed down over the decades, the town still preserves its oldtimey feel. With richard dix, kent taylor, edgar buchanan, frances gifford. Although bruce broughton remains best known for his 1985 breakthrough score to silverado, his score to 1993s tombstone is arguably the better, more complex work, capturing the excitement, tension, and danger of the wild west in even more vivid detail than its predecessor. Tombstone, arizona is an authentic 1880s western town. Jack ziegler, actor terry ike clanton, tombstone historian ben t. Ike clanton is in the film as part of curlys gang, but he acts as a coward. The earp brothers and their wives arrive in the silver boom town of tombstone, arizona.
Virgil earp and deforest kelley morgan earp in 1957 film gunfight at the o. Virgil and allie earp moved to california where virgil, despite the use of only one arm, became a town sheriff. Ironically, when the film was released, a few critics panned the film s straying from the truth and indulging in revisionism. The company decides to head for tombstone to start living there. The film tells the story of the earp brothers and doc holliday in tombstone, az. Wyatt earp, now an icon in western history, fiction and film, came late to that position. Virgil earp, morgan earp and doc holliday were wounded but survived. A highenergy action adventure based on legend rather than historical fact finds wyatt earp kurt russell desiring to retire from law enforcement.
The 10 best movies about wyatt earp and doc holliday. Tombstone is a 1993 american western starring kurt russell, val kilmer, powers booth and many others. Arizona start planning your arizona vacation with the official state visitors guide available in print, electronically, or both. However, he is soon compelled against his wishes to take a stand against the lawless, whose malevolent actions threaten to consume the entire town. By the end of 1881, the town of tombstone had a population of more than 5,000. The film stars danny trejo, mickey rourke and anthony michael hall a gang overruns a small mining town murdering their own leader guerrero trejo in a coldblooded power grab. Fill out the form to request your free travel packet, which includes an arizona official state visitors guide and an arizona state highway map. Behind him not long afterward came his brothers, virgil,morgan,james, and warren earp, and also one john holliday. He meets his brothers there, as well as his old friend doc holliday.
Thinking that the rich colors of the mountains looked like a promising place. Sentenced to eternity in hell he finds himself confronted by satan himself rourke, offering a daring. Tickets bfi southbank tickets bfi imax tickets bfi shop. The bulletriddled story of the man too tough for dodge city. Tombstone movie insider info, fun quotes, trailer, real. Wyatt earp kurt russell and his brothers, morgan bill paxton and virgil sam elliott, have left their gunslinger ways behind them to settle down and start a. Taking into account decades of preservation efforts, stories told by hollywood, performances on the town s streets, the fervor of earp historians and western history buffs, and global notions of the west,imagining tombstoneshows how the town s tenacity depends on far more than a usable past.
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