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Release Date: 01 March, 2004 Retail Price: $14.99 OUR Price: $13.49 You SAVE: $1.50! Cast: Complete Cast (11 total) |
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral Reviews
OK movie
Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas are reliable movie stars and do a good job of portraying Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday, respectively, during the events that led up to one of the most famous encounters in American history. The grudging respect and friendship that grows between the two men is the most interesting part of this film, but this aspect is embedded in a screenplay that is equal parts soap opera and simplistic horse opera. This climactic shootout is well staged.
Title Tune and Kirk Douglas Make "O.K. Corral" a Classic
Why is "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral" an all-time western classic? Two reasons: Kirk Douglas and Frankie Lane. Sure, Burt Lancaster as Wyatt Earp is rock solid. But it is Douglas' unforgetable Doc Holliday that makes this a western for the ages.
Holliday drinks too much. He gambles too much. He treats his girlfriend rotten. He kills with impunity, though not without provocation. But you like him anyway--and you like him a lot--because, when law and order are hanging in the balance, he comes down on the right side. Irrespective of Holliday's own foibles, you like him because he hates bad guys, especially those rotten Clantons.
Then there is Frankie Lane singing that song. I would watch this film just for the theme song echoing through it. I mean, was there ever a better cowboy song than "O.K. Corral?" It will haunt you. And nobody could have sung it except Lane. Where did that styling, that vibrato, come from? From the cold desert evening ground of Boot Hill, maybe.
Some have said the pace of "Corral" flags at times. Well, if you are looking for the pace of a sci-fi flick, or an animated Disney film, or NHL hockey, you will be disappointed. But the pace of "Corral" is not unlike the pace of the Old West. In the Old West you had to wait around for daybreak, the stagecoach, the cavalry, and a lot of things. I recommend you quietly wait along with the Earps and the Clantons for the shootout at daybreak.
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