Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Clementine

My Darling Clementine (1946)

Set in an alternate universe where things happened very differently in Tombstone. The differences are too numerous to list in their entirety. In real life, Doc was a dentist, in this movie he is a surgeon. In this movie, Billy Clanton and Virgil Earp are killed before the street fight (in real life, Billy died at the street fight, Virgil survived the street fight). In this movie, Old Man, Ike and Doc all die in the street fight (none of them died at the street fight in real life). There are no McLaurys in this movie (the McLaury brothers played a prominent role in the real life story). And many more differences.

Henry Fonda as Wyatt Earp.

Ward Bond as Morgan Earp.

Victor Mature as Doc Holliday.

Walter Brennan as the evil Old Man Clanton.

John Ireland as Billy Clanton (he was Ringo in Gunfight at the O.K. Corral)

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