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Director Lewis Seiler’s 1934 Western film Frontier Marshal stars George O’Brien, Irene Bentley, George E Stone and Alan Edwards. George O’Brien plays lawman Wyatt Earp (though he is actually named Michael Wyatt for legal reasons) […]
The Fastest Gun Alive belongs to Cross Creek storekeeper George Temple (Glenn Ford), who, although he wants to hand up his holster, has to prove his gun speed again and again after three bank robbers […]
The late, lamented, highly talented director Frank Perry (David and Lisa, Diary of a Mad Housewife) turns his hand to the 1971 ‘Doc’, a useful spaghetti Western about sharp-shooting poker gambler Doc Holliday (Stacy Keach), […]
Given the wealth of material available in the legends surrounding these real-life characters, director William Castle’s 1954 movie is an unnecessarily dull Western about the trio of famous gunslingers Bat Masterson (George Montgomery), Doc Holliday […]
‘I’M THE LAW IN TOMBSTONE.’ Director Allan Dwan 1939 Western is the second film of Stuart N Lake’s book Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal, following Lewis Seiler’s Frontier Marshal (1934). Lake’s biography, published two years after Earp’s death […]
Writer-director Blake Edwards teasingly says at the end of his fanciful 1988 comedy crime, mystery thriller movie: ‘And this is how it really happened. Give or take a lie or two.’ The story starts with the […]
George Cosmatos’s 1993 film Tombstone stars Kurt Russell and Val Kilmer as Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday, and is written by Kevin Jarre, the original director, fired early in production. The film was a hit […]