Considered to one of the best western films ever made gunfight at the o.K. Corral explores the relationship between two of the wests most celebrated legends – wyatt earp and doc holliday. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 04/11/2006 Starring: Burt Lancaster Rhonda Fleming Run time: 122 minutes Rating: NrNovelist Leon Uris wrote the script for this Western directed by John Sturges (The Magnificent Seven) and based on the life and times of Wyatt Earp (Burt Lancaster) and his sickly companion, Doc Holliday (Kirk Douglas). The action inevitably leads to the legendary battle between the two heroes and the villainous Clanton gang, but the film is also very much about the conflicts each man faces with women, with one another, and with their own destinies. Lancaster is terrific as the downbeat Earp, and Douglas has one of his best roles as the consumptive Holliday. The thoughtfulness of the tale is matched by Sturges’s captivating way with the dramatic duel. All in all, the film appeals both as a solid action piece and as a fascinating, two-character study. –Tom Keogh
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May 3, 2010
#1
Oddly un-entertaining and over-directed try at the O.K.Corral.Amasing that fine director John Sturges, who made such good movies as “The great escape” and “Bad day at Black Rock”, didn’t make this one better! Even the final shoot-out is boring and disappointing as is the title-song by Frankie Laine. Grab “My Darling Clementine” or “Tombstone” instead!
May 3, 2010
#2
This movie hit the theaters on May 30 1957 starring Burt Lancaster as Marshal Wyatt Earp, Kirk Douglas as Doctor John Holliday and Rhonda Fleming as Laura Denbow. This movie was bad because it was a remake of My Darling Clementine and wasn’t you seeing the plot the first time you don’t want to see it again. Sure, this movie was the at the famous “Old Tucson” facility, not far from the real Tombstone. However, its “town street” set was used surprisingly as Fort Griffin, Texas, in the opening reels, while later Tombstone street scenes were shot in southern California, on the same Paramount Ranch set that was later used as Virginia City, Nevada, on TV’s “Bonanza” (1959). The actual gunfight took place on 26 October 1881 and lasted a mere 30 seconds, resulting in three dead men after an exchange of 34 bullets. Compared to this adaptation, the movie gunfight took 4 days to film and produced an on-screen bloodbath that lasted 5 minutes. I give this movie 1 weasel star because it was a remake and no one likes remakes.
May 3, 2010
#3
Both my husband and I found this film to be a groaner and will probably take it to the used store for trade in. It’s not one we will watch again or recoomend.
We found three major flaws in this film:
It opens with hokey 70′s soundtrack music that’s the Western equivalent for disco in the vein of lyrical content. The instrumental soundtrack was similarly intrusive and annoying.
The producers literally stole a scene from the film’s predecessor, “My Darling Clementine.” In both films, during a fight someone shoots down the candalabra in the saloon and thus sets the place on fire while the piano play shifts to eight-to-the-bar happy music. That might have been a grand scene for “Clementine” but this could have been more original.
And while we’re at it, in 1881, there was no “Oklahoma City” for a gunfight to take place in.
May 3, 2010
#4
This is absolutely no improvement on the poor VHS video tape.
A travesty.
I subtract all stars for the terrible transfer, menu, and options.
May 3, 2010
#5
I enjoyed this movie, but I have to say that the costumes overpower the story a bit and are unrealistically glossy and fancy, at least by the standards of how western movies are shot today by the likes of Clint Eastwood. Everybody in this film is dressed to the teeth in silks and satins with no dust anywhere to be seen. This gives the movie a very phoney feeling about it, even though it is a good (and familiar) story and the acting is very strong. I think the music and soundtrack are very dated and annoying, with some songs more or less narrating the action as it is occuring on the screen! It struck me as very intrusive.