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Overwiew :John Sturges revisits a subject that he had explored a decade earlier with GUNFIGHT AT THE O.K. CORRAL, and this more melancholy version reflects the troubled period in which it was made. Set in 1888 in the aftermath of the historic gunfight, it stars James Garner as legendary sheriff Wyatt Earp. The surviving Clanton, Ike, has Wyatt and his brothers, Virgil (Frank Converse) and Morgan (Sam Melville), and their alcoholic, gunslinger friend, Doc Holiday (Jason Robards Jr.) arrested for murder. The charges are quickly dismissed, and Virgil accepts an offer to run for marshal of Tombstone. But he's trapped by some of Clanton's men and is so seriously injured that he has to step down. After Morgan offers to take his brother's place on the ballot, he's killed. Wyatt is appointed as federal marshal, and he and Doc round up a posse to go after Ike Clanton. Wyatt now displays a grim ruthlessness that disturbs even his hard-bitten friend, while Doc suddenly begins hemorrhaging and realizes that he has to go to a sanatorium or die. This inspired look at Western vengeance features a terrific cast, including Garner, Robards, Robert Ryan, Albert Salmi, and a young Jon Voight, in his film debut. |
Starring :
James Garner, Jason Robards, Robert Ryan, Albert Salmi, Charles Aidman
Directors :
John Sturges
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www.channel4.com - : Yet another Wyatt Earp movie, Sturges' Western is more successful than most. Garner is Earp, coming straight out of Sturges's own Gunfight at the OK Corral, and seeking revenge for the murder of his brothers. He quickly slips from the moral highground as he descends from upholder of law to cold-blooded gunslinger. Robards is Doc Holliday coming along for the ride. Directed with old-fashioned sincerity, this tries to bring some humanity to the legends it portrays. Alas it loses some of its mystique in the process, while not making up for it in observation. One of the last old-fashioned pre-Peckinpah westerns. more...
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www.boxoffice.com - : The six new additions to MGM's ''Western Legends'' series consist mainly of quick-shot, no-extras westerns from the late sixties and early seventies -- a period when such films were quite obviously in decline. Understandably, these aren't the cream of the crop, though there's probably a little something in each of them that genre fans will find to appreciate, making MGM's decision to release them as stripped-down discount titles probably quite wise. more...
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