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Release year: 1993

Storyline

A successful lawman's plans to retire anonymously in Tombstone, Arizona, are disrupted by the kind of outlaws he was famous for eliminating.

Top credits

Directors

George P. Cosmatos

Writers

Kevin Jarre

Cast

Kurt Russell — Wyatt Earp
Val Kilmer — Doc Holliday
Sam Elliott — Virgil Earp
Bill Paxton — Morgan Earp

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Did you know

• Doc Holliday's line "You're a daisy if you do" was inspired by accounts of the real gunfight at the O.K. Corral. According to contemporary reports, Frank McLaury shouted "I've got you now, Doc, you son of a bitch," and Holliday replied "Blaze away! You're a daisy if you have." Screenwriter Kevin Jarre shortened and modernized it to "You're a daisy if you do" for clarity while keeping its historical tone.

• Some years after the death of Doc Holliday, Wyatt was quoted in an interview as saying, "Doc was a dentist, not a lawman or an assassin, whom necessity had made a gambler; a gentleman whom disease had made a frontier vagabond; a philosopher whom life had made a caustic wit; a long lean ash-blond fellow nearly dead with consumption, and at the same time the most skillful gambler and the nerviest, speediest, deadliest man with a six-gun that I ever knew."

• As extraordinary as the scene is in which Wyatt kills Curly Bill Brocius in the creek, it is true. During the shoot-out in the creek, when Wyatt kills Curly Bill, the next person he shoots is Johnny Barnes (the cowboy who yells "Jesus Christ!"). As in real life, Wyatt shoots Barnes in the stomach. However, Barnes was not killed on-site. He managed to escape, and died in a farmhouse. However, before dying, he told the story of how Wyatt really did walk into a hail of Curly Bill's gunfire unscathed, walked right up to Bill, and shot him point blank with both barrels of a double-barreled shotgun.