Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957 film)
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| Gunfight at the O.K. Corral | |
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| Directed by | John Sturges |
| Produced by | Hal B. Wallis |
| Written by | Leon Uris from a story by George Scullin |
| Starring | Burt Lancaster Kirk Douglas Rhonda Fleming Jo Van Fleet John Ireland |
| Music by | Dimitri Tiomkin |
| Cinematography | Charles B. Lang Jr. |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
| Release date(s) | May 30, 1957 |
| Running time | 122 min. |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
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Gunfight at the O.K. Corral is a 1957 movie starring Burt Lancaster as Wyatt Earp and Kirk Douglas as Doc Holliday about the famous Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona Territory. The movie was based on a real event which took place on October 26, 1881. It was directed by John Sturges and featuring a screenplay written by novelist Leon Uris, the movie has an outstanding supporting cast including Rhonda Fleming, John Ireland, Jo Van Fleet, Martin Milner, Dennis Hopper, Jack Elam, Lee Van Cleef, DeForest Kelley, Earl Holliman and Charles Herbert. The movie was nominated for two Academy Awards in the Sound and Editing categories. The movie was released on May 30, 1957.
Sturges also directed a sequel ten years later, Hour of the Gun, with James Garner as Earp and Jason Robards as Holliday.
Lancaster and Douglas made several films together over the decades, including I Walk Alone (1948), The Devil's Disciple (1959), Seven Days in May (1964), and Tough Guys (1986), which fixed the notion of the pair as something of a team in the public's imagination. Douglas was always second-billed under Lancaster in these films but, with the exception of I Walk Alone, in which Douglas played a villain, their roles were usually more or less the same size.
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[edit] Cast
Burt Lancaster ... Marshal Wyatt Earp
Kirk Douglas ... Doc Holliday
Rhonda Fleming ... Laura Denbow
Jo Van Fleet ... Kate Fisher (Doc's woman)
John Ireland ... Johnny Ringo (Clanton's hired gun)
Lyle Bettger ... Ike Clanton
Frank Faylen ... Cotton Wilson (county sheriff, Griffin, Texas)
Earl Holliman ... Deputy Sheriff Charlie Bassett
Ted de Corsia ... Shanghai Pierce (cattleman)
Dennis Hopper ... Billy Clanton
Whit Bissell ... John P. Clum (editor, 'Tombstone Epitaph' / Head of Citizens Council)
George Mathews ... John Shanssey (Griffin saloon owner)
John Hudson ... Virgil Earp
DeForest Kelley ... Morgan Earp
Martin Milner ... James 'Jimmy' Earp
Lee Van Cleef ... Ed Bailey
[edit] Quotations
"It’s not your fault, Kate. It’s not my fault. It’s not anybody's fault. It’s just the way the cards fall." —Doc Holliday
[edit] Trivia
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[edit] External links
- Gunfight at the O.K. Corral at the Internet Movie Database
- Gunfight at the O.K. Corral at the TCM Movie Database
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| 1940s | The Man Who Dared - Shadowed - Alias Mr. Twilight - For the Love of Rusty - Keeper of the Bees - The Sign of the Ram - Best Man Wins - The Walking Hills |
| 1950s | The Magnificent Yankee - The Capture - Mystery Street - Right Cross - Kind Lady - The People Against O'Hara - It's a Big Country (with Clarence Brown, Don Hartman, Richard Thorpe, Charles Vidor, Don Weis and William A. Wellman) - The Girl in White - Jeopardy- Fast Company - Escape from Fort Bravo - Bad Day at Black Rock - Underwater! - The Scarlet Coat - Backlash - Gunfight at the O.K. Corral - The Law and Jake Wade - The Old Man and the Sea - Last Train from Gun Hill - Never So Few |
| 1960s | The Magnificent Seven - By Love Possessed - Sergeants 3 - A Girl Named Tamiko - The Great Escape - The Satan Bug - The Hallelujah Trail - Hour of the Gun - Ice Station Zebra - Marooned |
| 1970s | Joe Kidd - Chino - McQ - The Eagle Has Landed |
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