Tag: Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
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The Unthinkable Almost Happened: Willem Dafoe Almost Took Val Kilmer’s Iconic Tombstone Role
It’s impossible to imagine anybody else besides Val Kilmer playing the role of Doc Holliday in the western biopic Tombstone, but he wasn’t the first actor the producers wanted for the part. Tombstone depicts real-life historical events from the frontier, like the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. It was one of the most commercially successful…
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Heat, Costumes, and Tuberculosis: The Untold Story Behind Val Kilmer’s Tombstone Ordeal
Val Kilmer’s hard-drinking Doc Holliday can be seen sweating all throughout the western biopic Tombstone, but there’s a historical reason – and a behind-the-scenes reason – for all the sweat in the movie. Set in Southeast Arizona in the 1880s, Tombstone depicts such real-life historical events as the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral and the…
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John Ford’s Game-Changing Henry Fonda Film – Is ‘My Darling Clementine’ a True Story?
For legendary filmmaker John Ford, telling the story of the American West through a demystified lens is conveyed through a singular image. In 1946, a shot of Henry Fonda sitting on the porch of a local barbershop, leaning back on a chair as he looks upon the open vista is a minimalist example of Ford’s…
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What did the confrontation between Wyatt Earp and Johnny Tyler in “Tombstone” reveal about Earp’s tactics in handling difficult situations?
Billy Bob Thornton improvised his role in 1993 western epic Tombstone. Wyatt Earp is an iconic real-life lawman best remembered for the gunfight at the O.K. Corral alongside his brothers and Doc Holliday. His story has been brought to the big screen many times, including My Darling Clementine and Gunfight At The O.K. Corral starring…
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James Coburn’s Hidden Connection to ‘Seven Samurai’ Before ‘The Magnificent Seven’
John Sturges’ 1960 western “The Magnificent Seven” was a Yul Brynner vehicle from the jump — it was he and actor Anthony Quinn who had acquired the rights to remake Akira Kurosawa’s “Seven Samurai” epic as a western. To fill out the rest of the hired guns tasked to protect a Mexican village, the “Gunfight…