Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)

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" First Viewing Viewing Date: January 17th Via: Apple TV Plot: Lawman Wyatt Earp and outlaw Doc Holliday form an unlikely alliance which culminates in their participation in the legendary Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Rating: 6.9/10 Why Did I Watch It? This is another one of those classic films that has somehow eluded me for many years."

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"First viewing - Dec. 23rd It's no Tombstone, but this was pretty good. Lancaster & Douglas work fantastically well together as Wyatt & Doc, & the rest of the cast brings their A game. I was engaged with the story the entire time, & apart from a couple of the narrative threads just dropping out instead of being organically concluded it's well constructed. Absolutely worth a look & I'd watch it again. Streaming on Epix Now"

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"Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas bring their considerable star wattage—and physical prowess—to John Sturges’s first take on the oft-filmed events leading up to the legendary gunfight at the O.K. Corral, subject matter he would revisit a decade later with Hour of the Gun. His approach to the material here sits somewhere between John Ford’s mythopoetic My Darling Clementine and Frank Perry’s grittily revisionist Doc, lending a harder edge to many of the characters, like knife-wielding Doc"