Doc gets the highest number of amazing lines, but for my money, Wyatt has both of the most badass lines: "You tell 'em I'M coming! And hell's coming with me, you hear? HELL'S COMING WITH ME!" and "You die first, get it? Your friends might get me in a rush, but not before I turn your head into a canoe, do you understand?"
Agreed @Tanya Perez! While he may or may not have deserved to win, not even being nominated is a travesty to cinema! While one could argue that the movie's tone at times was skirting melodrama, that should not have negated Mr. Kilmer's exquisite performance.
Doc has taburculosis which back then was a death sentence. He was a dentist until his clients stopped using him because of his violent coughing. He went west because of the dry heat, which his doctor recommended for his disease. He was a very good gambler which in turn caused him to be a gun fighter. He wasn't afraid of death because his days were numbered due to his disease which made him a deadly advisory. Doc knew he would die young and he took total advantage of it. A true gunslinger and badass. His story is really tragic.
Facts..I read one of the books...amazing. Didn't really know that half of Tombstone either liked the Earp's or the Cowboys. They say Wyatt was kinda' a scumbag in Tombstone in real life and that him and Doc weren't all that good of friends.
>>back then was a death sentence. Still is. It still is in poor countries. TB killed 1.6 million people in 2021. Can you imagine? A completely and easily curable disease and people are still dying in droves from it because they're poor.
Best line in the whole movie...of which Doc has many "What are you doing this for, Doc?" Doc: "Wyatt Earp is my friend." "Hell, I got lots of friends." Doc: "I don't."
A lot of this movie was based on truth. Doc, Wyatt and the boys really fought at OK Corral in Tombstone. You can go there and see re-enactments of the gun fight. And the fight at the creek with Curly Bill really happened too. Wyatt was shot at but never hit. Pretty remarkable. Kurt Russell named his son Wyatt. And Doc had tuberculosis which is why he moved to Tombstone to help with his breathing. They called him a “lunger”. He never thought he’d die in bed without his boots on. Thought he’d die in a gun fight, hence why he looked at his bare feet and said “that’s funny”.
Wyatt actually wrote to Doc and invited him to Tombstone, saying that they could use a good dentist. But it's thought that Wyatt (who wasn't quite as squeaky clean as legend portrays him) felt he and Doc could make a lot of money at the Faro tables because there was a lot of money in Tombstone. Doc basically made his living as a Faro dealer and he was pretty good at making sure he was a very lucky gambler. 😉 Doc had a lot of confrontation from cowboys who didn't like his Faro "rules" and he'd been chased all over the West. Both Wyatt and Doc stood trial following the o.k. Corral shooting and neither were found guilty of anything. In the trial when asked how he knew Doc Holliday Wyatt stated, “I am a friend of Doc Holliday because when I was city marshal of Dodge City, Kansas, he came to my rescue and saved my life when I was surrounded by desperadoes.”
@@msdarby515 I think that's why Doc after winning the final draw was still trying to make it a draw. (or whatever one would call it when both are dead) Maybe a sign of respect to Ringo added to he didn't want to die in bed.
@@minnesotajones261 no one knows who killed Ringo and Tommy Behind The Deuce was in the tombstone jail when Wyatt Earp and his brothers were marshals there
Speaking about his friend, in an 1896 article, Wyatt Earp said: "I found him a loyal friend and good company. He was a dentist whom necessity had made a gambler; a gentleman whom disease had made a vagabond; a philosopher whom life had made a caustic wit; a long, lean blonde fellow nearly dead with consumption and at the same time the most skillful gambler and nerviest, speediest, deadliest man with a six-gun I ever knew."
I believe Tommy Lee Jones won it that year. Which goes to show you how incompetent the Academy is because Val Kilmer’s performance was the best for supporting actor that year.
The opening narrator is old Hollywood legend Robert Mitchum, I believe he was also supposed to play the role of Henry Hooker (Charlton Heston). Ed, the guy that Doc stabbed at the beginning is Frank Stallone, Sylvester Stallone’s younger brother. The sheriff Fred White was played by western/cowboy acting legend Harry Carey Jr.
Arizona at this time was a territory and not a state- they would have to wait for a judge to come every 6 months - 1 year to 'try a case'. This is why the law was carried out immediately by the parties involved majority of the time. Jails at this time weren't permanent structures, and many made of adobe; there were many break outs and the criminals would go free anyway. This is why the term west of the Mississippi River was the Wild West.
And that’s why in the real story, Wyatt was never “pursued” once he went on his crusade. Once he crossed “state lines”, he was basically free to do as he pleased
In 1887, prematurely gray and badly ailing, Holliday made his way to the Hotel Glenwood, near the hot springs of Glenwood Springs, Colorado. He hoped to take advantage of the reputed curative power of the waters, but the sulfurous fumes from the spring might have done his lungs more harm than good. As he lay dying, Holliday is reported to have asked the nurse attending him for a shot of whiskey. When she told him no, he looked at his bootless feet, amused. The nurses said that his last words were, "This is funny." He always figured he would be killed someday with his boots on. Holliday died at 10 a.m. on November 8, 1887. He was 36. Wyatt Earp did not learn of Holliday's death until two months afterward. Kate Horony later said that she attended to him in his final days, and one contemporary source appears to corroborate her claim.
Born and raised in Tucson about an hour from Tombstone. Yes those places still exist, the movie was filmed in the actual location. This is part of our culture and the movie is one of the best Westerns ever, the cast is top notch. The actual characters are legends in our history. I've been to pay respects at the grave of Wyatt Earp in LA. The annual re-enactment of Shootout at OK is fun and attended by many people that still love the lore of the West.
Very cool. I’ve been to Tombstone once and I highly recommend going to anyone interested in the Old West. Also, as someone who grew up on the East coast I loved seeing and experiencing the desert. I live in Albuquerque now but I’ve been over a lot of Arizona (my wife is from AZ) it’s easily one of the most striking and beautiful states in the country.
O'l Ringo can be visited, buried by the creek pretty much where he fell, covered by piled rocks, the oak tree he was under has fallen in the years following, several visits have been recorded and can be found on Ya'Alltube.
I was stationed at Fort. Huachuca, in Cochise County and not too far from Tombstone. Been to the OK Corral and many of the other places depicted in this film.
Huckle Bearer. The huckle is the handles on a casket. Meaning he'll carry the guys casket when he's dead.. Despite what people say, it's actually Huckle-Bearer, not Huckleberry, even though they do say Huckleberry in the movie. If you can find the original commentary, they mention it there also.
To be one's huckleberry - usually as the phrase I'm your huckleberry - is to be just the right person for a given job, or a willing executor of some commission.
@@Sam-The-PC-Gamer They sort of reenacted how he was allegedly found dead. True, the bit with Doc is speclation, but having set up Doc and Ringo as foils, it made sense to go that route.
Charlton Heston, the great American actor, who portrayed Moses in "The Ten Commandments" was in one of the final scenes in this movie. Robert Mitchum, another famous older actor narrated the ending.
When it comes to Kate, Docs woman, she may seem like she’s killing him….. but she was helping him live. Live the way he wanted even if it meant he died sooner. He wasn’t the kind of man to take it easy and stop drinking, that’s not a life he’d want. She was perfect for him. She acted as though he wasn’t sick at all, and that’s what a man like him would want. After he collapsed and the doctor came round. He told her they had to redefine their relationship. I think he basically sent her away., releasing her to live her life.
There's a deleted scene in which Kate and Doc argue over him going to help Wyatt fight the Cowboys while he was so sick. I've read that part is true to life - they did break up over the Cowboy war, but got back together later. Apparently, they had a pretty tempestuous relationship, but couldn't quit each other entirely, or never wanted to. She probably was the perfect partner for Doc - she nursed him through the worst but didn't try to change him. This is one of my favorite movies, but I don't like the way they minimized the roles of the women. It makes the wives come off as mere props, and paints both Josephine and Kate in a negative light. Aside from that, it's a great script, and the acting is amazing.
This is one of my favorite western movies. All the actors and actresses were great. Sam Elliot, Kurt Russel, Val Kilmer, and Bill Paxton as Virgil Earp , Wyatt Earp, Doc Holiday , and Morgan Earp
Virgil Was Played By The Legendary Sam Elliott. A Recommendation If You Want To See More Of His Acting And Include More US History, Catch Him In The Movie WE WERE SOLDIERS, With Mel Gibson, Chris Evans, And Bill Paxton
Great reaction. This movie is definitely in my top 5 of all time. In my opinion, Val Kilmer made this movie. He was the perfect bled of good and bad and unwavering loyalty.
Everyone needs a friend like Doc. He was a straight OG. Hope you caught the parallel from the beginning of the movie where Ringo was quoting Revelations and the end of the movie where Wyatt told Ike that he was coming and hell is coming with him. The shot where the last 4 were riding represented the 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse with Wyatt being death. Probably my top 3 favorite movies.
I can't believe it's been 30 years since this movie came out. I saw it back then and wasn't expecting much. I was pleasantly surprised. It was VERY well done and you could tell those in the movie as well as those who produced it respected the real historical events. It's why this story is still known today - 150 years later.
Actual events as told by Josephine Marcus Earp. She glossed over the fact that the Earp boys were pimps. (I don't think he was married to the addict he was with at the beginning of the movie.) I just wonder how true the gay couple was in real life.
The Catholic Priest killed early was Pedro Armendariz who was in many old John Wayne movies, the narrator was Robert Mitchum a classic old actor, and The rancher at the end of the movie is Charleston Heston! The actor with the “mustache” you couldn’t remember is Sam Elliot.
Ringo was absolutely terrified of Doc, though of course tried hard to hide it with his bravado. Rightfully so too, as Doc was way better and also had the "I'm dying anyway, might as well go out with my boots on" mentality (which is what he thought was so funny looking down at his feet at the end).
“Doc was a dentist 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 gun that I ever knew.” - Wyatt Earp speaking of Doc Holliday
I've met Michael Biehn (Johnny Ringo) and Michael Rooker (McMasters). Both of them great guys. Michael Biehn said that this was his favorite movie to do. He loved the cast, and he loved the script as well as where they were shooting. He was really good friends with Bill Paxton, and we talked about how talented Bill was and how bummed out we were that he passed.
@Sam-The-PC-Gamer Yep, for all they got right, they got a lot wrong as well. Supposedly the most historically accurate of the 45 Wyatt Earp movies is the one Kevin Costner made. ....It's also the most boring.
I live an hour and a half drive from Tombstone. Some think it's kitschy, a tourist trap. But as a bit of a history junkie, it's a real trip to walk down the wooden sidewalks, horses tied to the hitching posts, men and women in full costume going about their day. stopping to have a chat. the first time I went there as a kid, I was frozen in my tracks when the first gentleman stepped out of a shop dressed in full black looking like Virgil from this movie. I had a Marty Mcfly, Back to the Future moment. Had me turning around making sure I could still see my parents, that I didn't, somehow, step into the past.
Wonder if you recognized Michael Beihn as Ringo? I know I didn't when I first saw this movie. He was amaizing too. Too bad he learned all those cool gun tricks just to get outdone by Val Kilmer flipping a cup. 😂
As one who is older than you are, I think of "Tombstone" as among the better "new-school" westerns. I've long been a fan of the classic westerns of the 30s and 40s. One that I recommend is "Red River" (1948) with John Wayne and Montgomery Clift.
According to lore, which is about 3/4 truth and 1/4 "embellishment", John Wayne who was an extra/stuntman in the early days of Hollywood met Wyatt Earp and then used his mannerisms and walk and talk to be the Duke that everyone loves. Even John Ford, the director of many films, approved of Wayne's direction because he was a good friend of Wyatt, too.
Kurt Russell, Sam Elliott, and Val Kilmer are some of my favorite actors. They did a good job with this. It is a true story. Doc Holiday was a dealer in my hometown, Cheyenne, WY, for a short time. Wyatt Earp talked him into going/ coming to Dodge City. That was before Arizona.
"You going to do something about it, or just stand there and bleed?" "Your friends may get me in a rush, but not before I turn your head into a canoe." Now THOSE are intimidation lines.
Wyatt Earp was a real man. Most of the gun fights in this movie did actually happen. Some consider him a hero that tamed the west with his pistol and a shotgun. Others saw him as a cruel villain who stepped over the line without prejudice. Wyatt in all of the gunfights he had been in, was never shot once. A more historically accurate tale of this movie is called Wyatt Earp played by Kevin Costner. Also if you haven't seen dances with wolves or open range. They are both excellent westerns that'll just hook into the genre.
I remember the first time I watched Dances with Wolves in highschool I thought it was going to be a musical lol. I was completely blown away and so drawn into the story that I actually looked forward to coming to school the next day to watch the rest of it. I watched Open Range in theaters simply because I saw it was another Costner western and it did not disappoint at all.
Two more relatively recent westerns to check out “Open Range” with Kevin Costner and “Silverado” which also features Kevin Costner in more ensemble cast. Modern classics!
Open Range for sure, and for more Robert Duval in a cowboy hat I'll throw the miniseries Lonesome Dove into the mix. And for some Robert Duval without a cowboy hat, Secondhand Lions is definitely worth a watch.
@@lucyislight9949 Look if you like it, that's okay. Like what you like. But for me Silverado is just horrible. I can't buy into any of the characters at all.
Kabir, I can not get Any reactors to react to "Lonesome Dove". It's a 2 or 3 parter but it is the BEST Western of all time. Tommy Lee Jones and Robert Duval are Fantastic! It has Action, Comedy, Love, Adventure, Suspense, Emotion, an Amazing sound track.. great acting, great characters... "Lonesome Dove".
I was told they have the coat Wyatt was wearing in that River scene in the Tombstone museum. There are bullet holes all over it and you can even make out where his body was because the bullet holes make kind of an outline of his body. I’d like to see it someday.
It's interesting watching someone react who has no idea of the true story behind the movie, who has never heard of "the shootout at the O.K. Corral" nor Wyatt Earp and his brothers. Those of us Americans, especially us older ones who grew up on all aspects of the Wild West, both folklore and fact, appreciate the bits of the movie that made history feel more real than earlier more mythical versions. But it's good to see appreciation of a well-made movie that dealt with aspects of our past that we're not necessarily proud of, from someone with no pre-conceived ideas and just experienced it.
The older spaghetti western with Eastwood " A Fistful Of Dollars " is an early classic. " The Missing" is interesting ..good cinematography and film location
I thought it was funny in the beginning when you said it was a "young Kurt Russell", because he was a child actor and here in the states and we've been watching him since he was twelve years old.
I'm not a huge Western fan, but this one is at the top of my list. There was a series years and years ago called Young Guns that you also might like & check out. It was very good and pretty accurate to the times.
Great reaction video my friend. I love Westerns...another really great one no one talks about is "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford." It's far different than "Tombstone," which is why it's a must see. It's a different style of story telling--different kind of plot. Great film. Great performances. Like Tombstone, it's based on a real story. Other westerns I recommend... Unforgiven, The Oxbow Incident, Winchester 73, The Searchers, High Noon, and Little Big Man. Plus all the Clint Eastwood westerns are pretty awesome.
There were actually six Earp brothers. In addition to Wyatt, Virgil, and Morgan, there was also Warren, James, and Newton. Warren and James actually rode with Wyatt during the Vendetta Ride and it's odd they they weren't featured in the film.
This is one of the only modern westerns that I truly enjoy and rewatch on a regular basis. It had a MASSIVE all star cast, with names if not faces that you'd recognize today. I mean, Billy Bob Thornton doesn't look the same at all, and Steven Lang (Ike Clanton) just did Avatar 2. Also, it is funny how many of the main cast were also in Marvel movies or TV shows, with Bill Paxton (Morgan Earp) and Powers Boothe (Curly Bill Brocius) being in Marvel's Agents of SHIELD and having a small role in Avengers, and there were others. Anyway, this is in my top 5 all time favorite movies, and trust me, I've seen movies that date back to the 30's and I like a lot of old cinema! Doc (Val Kilmer) has THE best lines, and he really should have got the Oscar for his performance.
I remember in history class learning about things like the OK Carrol showdown. Among other things that happened in the west. I always loved the stories. Wild Bill, Doc Holiday...etc were all such interesting people. Even if we don't maybe agree with things they did/did not do. Also reminds me of Annie Oakley in that period. Girl had top noitch gun skill and really pissed off so many men who thought only men were good with guns.
You know how at the end they told you that Wyatt died in Los Angeles in 1929? He was an advisor to the movie industry, hence all the actors at his funeral. John Wayne worked in the prop department moving scenery etc before he was able to break into acting, and he became good friends with Wyatt Earp. In fact he said that his famous walk and drawling speech were based on Wyatt Earp. Wayne said that he was being paid to make the movies, he might as well try to copy the men who had really done the deeds.
You started at the top. My favorite Western movie. Val Kilmer should won an Oscar for the role. Now you need to watch a John Wayne western. My favorite is The Sons of Katie Elder. But, you also can't go wrong with a western directed by John Ford.
My favorite Western of all time! Believe I or not, that scene at the river where Wyatt comes out with guns a blazing and doesn’t get shot, actually happened in real life.
Doc was a brilliant student and dentist. He was forced to go west because of Tuberculosis. His Hungarian lady was big nose Kate. I ate in the restaurant with her name in Tombstone. Wyatt's Jewish lady was Josephine Marcus. She looked after his legend including the book by Lake that became the Television show. He spent time on movie sets telling the young actors about the west.
Old school western? Come on now! :) IF you want an old school movie try "The Wild Bunch" it was very controversial in its time as graphic. Also an absolute classic "Treasure of the Sierra Madre" Looking forward to your reaction.
Lot of these actors you may know from subsequent roles. Ringo was Reese from Terminator. Morgan was the lead in Twister. Ike Clanton is the bad guy general in Avatar. One of the bad guys who joined Wyatt is the guy with the deadly arrow in Guardians of the Galaxy. I think you’d really like Silverado - not historical at all, but a big cast of name actors and a lot of fun!
Awesome reaction Kabir...There are several books that revolve around Wyatt Earp... People have compared this movie to an inspiration of The Godfather. Technically, the Earp's and Doc didn't really get along. Doc was not really that famous...he had tuberculosis; a death wish. Lore has it that Jonny Ringo was faster than Doc but Doc had nothing to live for. The Earp's had like 8 brothers and 3 sisters. They were years older than these three... When Doc is getting shaved and says "I'm your huckleberry"... One of the greatest lines ever... Awesome reaction👍🏾
Now you have to watch "Open Range," with Kevin Costner; and "Silverado," with Costner and John Cleese. Then the two inescapably best Clint Eastwood westerns; "Pale Rider," and " Unforgiven," with Morgan Freeman and Gene Hackman. For real western fun, see Clint's "The Outlaw Jose Wales."
Ringo is scared after Doc's cup twirling, because Doc mimicked every movement Ringo did with his gun, exactly. Even drunk and dying of TB, Doc still had the ability to take in every movement and the dexterity to match it.
Despite the normal Hollywood embellishments, a pretty surprisingly large amount of what's depicted in this film is essentially true. Wyatt was known for having a temper, and a preference for pistol whipping people, but on balance seems to have been a pretty decent guy. The portrayal of Doc Holliday is probably one of the best that's ever been put on screen. Educated, highly intelligent, and once described by Wyatt Earp as, "a long, lean blonde fellow nearly dead with consumption and at the same time the most skillful gambler and nerviest, speediest, deadliest man with a six-gun I ever knew".
fun fact : Ed Bailey is played by Frank Stallone aka Sly's brother. Its even said he is still proud of having been in this movie he would give autographed photos with him in costume to fans.
This was your first Western? Hmmm … Try Silverado if you want another one. It was my absolute favorite movie for about a decade. Or High Noon or Stagecoach or Unforgiven. There are a bunch of good ones. Butch Cassiday and the Sundance Kid, too. Peace from Ohio … Ooh, I almost forgot to say, Sam Elliot as Virgil, best voice in American cinema.
The acting by Michael Clarke Duncan in The Green Mile and Val Kilmer in Tombstone are always the performances I think of first whenever I think of the best acting that I have ever seen in a movie.
I agree 💯. He should have won the Oscar for this role. I have seen this movie so many times and I still get choked up over some of the scenes. The acting in this movie was stellar. Top tier. You need to watch The Count of Monte Cristo. Also the Man in the iron Mask with Leo DiCaprio is awesome too.
Still one of my favorite movies ever. Another modern western you might really enjoy is Open Range with Robert Duvall and Kevin Costner. Monte Walsh with Tom Selleck is another legendary western.
“Doc "was a dentist 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 gun that I ever knew. Wyatt earp
I've been to Tombstone and the area numerous times while living in El Paso, TX and then Las Cruces NM. There's some Hollywood in this, like the red sashes. The cowboys were mostly cattle and horse thieves, working both sides of the border but no red sashes! Wyatt had bullets go through his duster (coat) and shoot his saddle horn and horses but never was wounded. After the fight at the corral, the Earps were charged and tried for murder but acquitted. Johnny Ringgold (Ringo) was found dead with a gunshot wound to the temple and his pistol hanging from a finger of his hand, under a tree about 40 miles east of Tombstone and was buried there. His rifle was leaning against the tree beside him. I have been to the site, which is on private property but the owner allows visitors and has put a gate in the fence for access. At the time, court documents have Doc in Colorado being tried for larceny on the same days around Ringo's death. So if true he couldn't have done the killing. And Wyatt was already four months gone from Arizona Territory to Colorado and no one knows of him returning then leaving again. It was considered a suicide or a killing by a man named Frank Leslie who was nearby with Billy Claiborne actively looking for Ringo. Still a mystery!
Kabir, though I've never seen this movie, if you haven't ever seen The Magnificent 7, I encourage you to watch it. It's spectacular. I'm not talking about the recent remake (I'm never a fan of them), but the original movie from the '60s. Aside from the movie itself, the music score won an Academy Award.
The original Magnificent Seven is one of the first anti hero movies from the early 60s. Yul Brenner and Steve McQueen headline the great cast. I think it’s on par with Tombstone. 40:59
Every single line spoken by Val Kilmer is solid gold. Not one wasted breath.
Doc gets the highest number of amazing lines, but for my money, Wyatt has both of the most badass lines: "You tell 'em I'M coming! And hell's coming with me, you hear? HELL'S COMING WITH ME!" and "You die first, get it? Your friends might get me in a rush, but not before I turn your head into a canoe, do you understand?"
He stolid this move.!!!!!!
“I’ll be your Huckleberry”
@@megavideopowermegavideopow8657 "I got plenty of friends"..."I don't"
He stole the show and that is saying something in a movie that had such an outstanding cast.
I really wanted Val Kilmer to be nominated for an Oscar for his role as Doc Holiday! Out of all the movies his performance in my opinion was the best.
Facts...Val gave a great performance 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
to be fair, didn't this come out the same years as Shindler's List?
Agreed @Tanya Perez! While he may or may not have deserved to win, not even being nominated is a travesty to cinema! While one could argue that the movie's tone at times was skirting melodrama, that should not have negated Mr. Kilmer's exquisite performance.
@@adamskeans2515 Yes, I think it did and Shindler's Liist was a masterpiece but I think he should have at least been nominated.😊
@@tanyaperez4892 yes it was, no one was getting an Oscar over that one
Doc has taburculosis which back then was a death sentence. He was a dentist until his clients stopped using him because of his violent coughing. He went west because of the dry heat, which his doctor recommended for his disease. He was a very good gambler which in turn caused him to be a gun fighter. He wasn't afraid of death because his days were numbered due to his disease which made him a deadly advisory. Doc knew he would die young and he took total advantage of it. A true gunslinger and badass. His story is really tragic.
Tuberculosis was a very common (and contagious) disease back then. It was also known as “Wasting Disease”.
Another more common name at the time was Consumption.
Facts..I read one of the books...amazing. Didn't really know that half of Tombstone either liked the Earp's or the Cowboys. They say Wyatt was kinda' a scumbag in Tombstone in real life and that him and Doc weren't all that good of friends.
>>back then was a death sentence.
Still is. It still is in poor countries. TB killed 1.6 million people in 2021. Can you imagine? A completely and easily curable disease and people are still dying in droves from it because they're poor.
@@newgrl Same with Polio.
Best line in the whole movie...of which Doc has many
"What are you doing this for, Doc?"
Doc: "Wyatt Earp is my friend."
"Hell, I got lots of friends."
Doc: "I don't."
Come on boys, we don't want any trouble in here, not in any language
Kills me every time
To quote another movie: You’re GodDamned Right!
@@hdtripp6218 "Apparently Mr. Ringo here is an educated man. Now I *really* hate him."
By far.
@@joeday4293 "He reminds me of...me. Now I really hate him"
A lot of this movie was based on truth. Doc, Wyatt and the boys really fought at OK Corral in Tombstone. You can go there and see re-enactments of the gun fight. And the fight at the creek with Curly Bill really happened too. Wyatt was shot at but never hit. Pretty remarkable. Kurt Russell named his son Wyatt. And Doc had tuberculosis which is why he moved to Tombstone to help with his breathing. They called him a “lunger”. He never thought he’d die in bed without his boots on. Thought he’d die in a gun fight, hence why he looked at his bare feet and said “that’s funny”.
Wyatt actually wrote to Doc and invited him to Tombstone, saying that they could use a good dentist. But it's thought that Wyatt (who wasn't quite as squeaky clean as legend portrays him) felt he and Doc could make a lot of money at the Faro tables because there was a lot of money in Tombstone. Doc basically made his living as a Faro dealer and he was pretty good at making sure he was a very lucky gambler. 😉 Doc had a lot of confrontation from cowboys who didn't like his Faro "rules" and he'd been chased all over the West.
Both Wyatt and Doc stood trial following the o.k. Corral shooting and neither were found guilty of anything. In the trial when asked how he knew Doc Holliday Wyatt stated, “I am a friend of Doc Holliday because when I was city marshal of Dodge City, Kansas, he came to my rescue and saved my life when I was surrounded by desperadoes.”
@@msdarby515 I think that's why Doc after winning the final draw was still trying to make it a draw. (or whatever one would call it when both are dead) Maybe a sign of respect to Ringo added to he didn't want to die in bed.
@@coreywolf49 Doc never killed Ringo something hollywood continues to make up
@@Sam-The-PC-Gamer My friend has a biography of Wyatt. I think "Johnny behing the Deuce" or something like that killed RIngo in real life...
@@minnesotajones261 no one knows who killed Ringo and Tommy Behind The Deuce was in the tombstone jail when Wyatt Earp and his brothers were marshals there
Speaking about his friend, in an 1896 article, Wyatt Earp said: "I found him a loyal friend and good company. He was a dentist whom necessity had made a gambler; a gentleman whom disease had made a vagabond; a philosopher whom life had made a caustic wit; a long, lean blonde fellow nearly dead with consumption and at the same time the most skillful gambler and nerviest, speediest, deadliest man with a six-gun I ever knew."
The cast in this is amazing all around but Val Kilmer gives a Oscar worthy performance and he wasn’t even nominated 🤬
Indeed.
I believe Tommy Lee Jones won it that year. Which goes to show you how incompetent the Academy is because Val Kilmer’s performance was the best for supporting actor that year.
@@tonysoto8949 Hell Val should have won
Fun Facts: All the mustaches were real. Kurt Russel named his son; Wyatt.
The opening narrator is old Hollywood legend Robert Mitchum, I believe he was also supposed to play the role of Henry Hooker (Charlton Heston). Ed, the guy that Doc stabbed at the beginning is Frank Stallone, Sylvester Stallone’s younger brother. The sheriff Fred White was played by western/cowboy acting legend Harry Carey Jr.
Arizona at this time was a territory and not a state- they would have to wait for a judge to come every 6 months - 1 year to 'try a case'. This is why the law was carried out immediately by the parties involved majority of the time. Jails at this time weren't permanent structures, and many made of adobe; there were many break outs and the criminals would go free anyway. This is why the term west of the Mississippi River was the Wild West.
And that’s why in the real story, Wyatt was never “pursued” once he went on his crusade. Once he crossed “state lines”, he was basically free to do as he pleased
In 1887, prematurely gray and badly ailing, Holliday made his way to the Hotel Glenwood, near the hot springs of Glenwood Springs, Colorado. He hoped to take advantage of the reputed curative power of the waters, but the sulfurous fumes from the spring might have done his lungs more harm than good. As he lay dying, Holliday is reported to have asked the nurse attending him for a shot of whiskey. When she told him no, he looked at his bootless feet, amused. The nurses said that his last words were, "This is funny." He always figured he would be killed someday with his boots on. Holliday died at 10 a.m. on November 8, 1887. He was 36. Wyatt Earp did not learn of Holliday's death until two months afterward. Kate Horony later said that she attended to him in his final days, and one contemporary source appears to corroborate her claim.
Thank you for sharing that. I love history!
Born and raised in Tucson about an hour from Tombstone. Yes those places still exist, the movie was filmed in the actual location. This is part of our culture and the movie is one of the best Westerns ever, the cast is top notch. The actual characters are legends in our history. I've been to pay respects at the grave of Wyatt Earp in LA. The annual re-enactment of Shootout at OK is fun and attended by many people that still love the lore of the West.
Wow..good to know. I'm a big fan of this movie, from Texas and would love to visit Tombstone and AZ👍🏾
Very cool. I’ve been to Tombstone once and I highly recommend going to anyone interested in the Old West. Also, as someone who grew up on the East coast I loved seeing and experiencing the desert. I live in Albuquerque now but I’ve been over a lot of Arizona (my wife is from AZ) it’s easily one of the most striking and beautiful states in the country.
O'l Ringo can be visited, buried by the creek pretty much where he fell, covered by piled rocks, the oak tree he was under has fallen in the years following, several visits have been recorded and can be found on Ya'Alltube.
Br I lived in Tucson for a few months in Jan of 1976 we had snow enough to build a snow man! I enjoyed old Tucson too! Love ur weather! I may return?
I was stationed at Fort. Huachuca, in Cochise County and not too far from Tombstone. Been to the OK Corral and many of the other places depicted in this film.
Doc Holiday is the best character. "I'm your huckleberry." Best line in the whole movie.
Huckle Bearer. The huckle is the handles on a casket. Meaning he'll carry the guys casket when he's dead..
Despite what people say, it's actually Huckle-Bearer, not Huckleberry, even though they do say Huckleberry in the movie. If you can find the original commentary, they mention it there also.
A Huckleberry back then meant the best man for the job.
To be one's huckleberry - usually as the phrase I'm your huckleberry - is to be just the right person for a given job, or a willing executor of some commission.
Why Johnny Ringo, it looks like someone walked over your grave. 😎
Doc knew he had Johnny Ringo when he said "I was just foolin around", Johnny was scared of Doc Holliday.
Doc never shot Ringo this movie was one of the worst fabricated ever made
@@Sam-The-PC-Gamer They sort of reenacted how he was allegedly found dead. True, the bit with Doc is speclation, but having set up Doc and Ringo as foils, it made sense to go that route.
Charlton Heston, the great American actor, who portrayed Moses in "The Ten Commandments" was in one of the final scenes in this movie. Robert Mitchum, another famous older actor narrated the ending.
The Bird Cage Saloon is still standing in Tombstone, Arizona. They have mock gunfights for the tourists. Hidalgo is another great movie.
Being an Arizona truck driver I would pass through Tombstone twice a week for many years. Almost 150 years later, the town hasn't changed much.
When it comes to Kate, Docs woman, she may seem like she’s killing him….. but she was helping him live. Live the way he wanted even if it meant he died sooner. He wasn’t the kind of man to take it easy and stop drinking, that’s not a life he’d want. She was perfect for him. She acted as though he wasn’t sick at all, and that’s what a man like him would want. After he collapsed and the doctor came round. He told her they had to redefine their relationship. I think he basically sent her away., releasing her to live her life.
There's a deleted scene in which Kate and Doc argue over him going to help Wyatt fight the Cowboys while he was so sick. I've read that part is true to life - they did break up over the Cowboy war, but got back together later. Apparently, they had a pretty tempestuous relationship, but couldn't quit each other entirely, or never wanted to. She probably was the perfect partner for Doc - she nursed him through the worst but didn't try to change him. This is one of my favorite movies, but I don't like the way they minimized the roles of the women. It makes the wives come off as mere props, and paints both Josephine and Kate in a negative light. Aside from that, it's a great script, and the acting is amazing.
This is one of my favorite movies. Morgan and Ringo played in Aliens as Hicks and Hudson 🥰
and they both played in Terminator
@@Sam-The-PC-Gamer Paxton has the record of being killed by Predator, the Xenomorph and the Terminator
This is one of my favorite western movies. All the actors and actresses were great. Sam Elliot, Kurt Russel, Val Kilmer, and Bill Paxton as Virgil Earp , Wyatt Earp, Doc Holiday , and Morgan Earp
The guy at the jail who falls off the wooden sidewalk is Wyatt Earp III. He was a technical advisor during the filming of Tombstone.
I did not know that...thanks👍🏾
and they still couldn't get the story facts correct lol
While a bit embellished, the gun fight at the creek where Wyatt waded in did indeed happen.
I love how most of this movie was pretty accurate!
Even down to Doc Holliday’s story about falling in love with his cousin
Val Kilmers best performance of his career.
Doc Holiday didn't rob anyone, he was an expert card player
Yes! Greatest movie ever in my opinion and Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday is one of the best character roles ever!
Virgil Was Played By The Legendary Sam Elliott. A Recommendation If You Want To See More Of His Acting And Include More US History, Catch Him In The Movie WE WERE SOLDIERS, With Mel Gibson, Chris Evans, And Bill Paxton
If you want to see a younger Sam Elliott (though, I swear, that man is immortal) The Sacketts with another mustached legend, Tom Selleck.
Great reaction. This movie is definitely in my top 5 of all time. In my opinion, Val Kilmer made this movie. He was the perfect bled of good and bad and unwavering loyalty.
Everyone needs a friend like Doc. He was a straight OG. Hope you caught the parallel from the beginning of the movie where Ringo was quoting Revelations and the end of the movie where Wyatt told Ike that he was coming and hell is coming with him. The shot where the last 4 were riding represented the 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse with Wyatt being death. Probably my top 3 favorite movies.
Wyatt=Death. Doc=Pestilence. Turkey Creek Jackson=Conquest. Texas Jack Vermilion=War. It checks out.
God.....Val Kilmer was SO good in this! Amazing actor!
Val Kilmer should've won an Oscar for this, his portrayal of Doc is iconic.
Val Kilmer's Doc Holliday is my favorite movie character ever.
I can't believe it's been 30 years since this movie came out. I saw it back then and wasn't expecting much. I was pleasantly surprised. It was VERY well done and you could tell those in the movie as well as those who produced it respected the real historical events. It's why this story is still known today - 150 years later.
Val Kilmer should have won an Academy Award for this performance.
One of my favorite movies! It's a true story!
Well, it's based on a true story.
Very highly fictionalized.
Sorta.
This movie is based on actual Events… true story.. great movie!
Actual events as told by Josephine Marcus Earp. She glossed over the fact that the Earp boys were pimps. (I don't think he was married to the addict he was with at the beginning of the movie.) I just wonder how true the gay couple was in real life.
Doctor Holliday (D.D.S.) had tuberculosis. His mother died from it as well.
The Catholic Priest killed early was Pedro Armendariz who was in many old John Wayne movies, the narrator was Robert Mitchum a classic old actor, and The rancher at the end of the movie is Charleston Heston! The actor with the “mustache” you couldn’t remember is Sam Elliot.
Ringo was absolutely terrified of Doc, though of course tried hard to hide it with his bravado. Rightfully so too, as Doc was way better and also had the "I'm dying anyway, might as well go out with my boots on" mentality (which is what he thought was so funny looking down at his feet at the end).
The scene where Ringo twirls his gun Doc clocked every move so he knew Ringo's style for the showdown!
@@jamesalexander5623 Yeah, and of course replicated every move Ringo made with the cup...which was actually more impressive lol
@@jamesalexander5623 what showdown? he never killed Ringo
@@Sam-The-PC-Gamer I'm talking about the Film Not History! ....
Ringo was definitely terrified. You could literally see his heart drop when he realized it was Doc that came to meet him instead of Wyatt.
If old ladies had our own version of Tiger Beat magazine, Sam Elliot would be on every cover .
Got that right! 😊
“Doc was a dentist 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 gun that I ever knew.” - Wyatt Earp speaking of Doc Holliday
I've met Michael Biehn (Johnny Ringo) and Michael Rooker (McMasters). Both of them great guys. Michael Biehn said that this was his favorite movie to do. He loved the cast, and he loved the script as well as where they were shooting. He was really good friends with Bill Paxton, and we talked about how talented Bill was and how bummed out we were that he passed.
The shootout at the OK Corral is a historic event.
and yet they didn't get it right in this movie because even Doc was shot during the gunfight
@Sam-The-PC-Gamer Yep, for all they got right, they got a lot wrong as well. Supposedly the most historically accurate of the 45 Wyatt Earp movies is the one Kevin Costner made.
....It's also the most boring.
Tombstone! Thanks for reviewing this, Kabir!
You nailed this reaction. This is easily one of my top five favorite movies. Kurt Russell and Val Kilmer were amazing.
I live an hour and a half drive from Tombstone. Some think it's kitschy, a tourist trap. But as a bit of a history junkie, it's a real trip to walk down the wooden sidewalks, horses tied to the hitching posts, men and women in full costume going about their day. stopping to have a chat. the first time I went there as a kid, I was frozen in my tracks when the first gentleman stepped out of a shop dressed in full black looking like Virgil from this movie. I had a Marty Mcfly, Back to the Future moment. Had me turning around making sure I could still see my parents, that I didn't, somehow, step into the past.
Wonder if you recognized Michael Beihn as Ringo? I know I didn't when I first saw this movie. He was amaizing too. Too bad he learned all those cool gun tricks just to get outdone by Val Kilmer flipping a cup. 😂
As one who is older than you are, I think of "Tombstone" as among the better "new-school" westerns. I've long been a fan of the classic westerns of the 30s and 40s. One that I recommend is "Red River" (1948) with John Wayne and Montgomery Clift.
@Jangle Red River is another one of my favorite westerns. Montgomery Clift was an awesome actor!
According to lore, which is about 3/4 truth and 1/4 "embellishment", John Wayne who was an extra/stuntman in the early days of Hollywood met Wyatt Earp and then used his mannerisms and walk and talk to be the Duke that everyone loves. Even John Ford, the director of many films, approved of Wayne's direction because he was a good friend of Wyatt, too.
Top 3 Val performance. Frikin classic based on “Gunfight at the OK Coral” true story with Hollywood-ness
been to Tombstone several times for the Reenactment .... Really well done! My Birthday is the the Anniversary!
It was an Excellent Movie! My favorite western! I know people that generally didn't like westerns but enjoyed this one!😁👍
Kurt Russell, Sam Elliott, and Val Kilmer are some of my favorite actors. They did a good job with this. It is a true story. Doc Holiday was a dealer in my hometown, Cheyenne, WY, for a short time. Wyatt Earp talked him into going/ coming to Dodge City. That was before Arizona.
Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday is my favorite film performance of all time.
Thank you for this pick one of my favorites of all time. You should watch Unforgiven filmed by og cowboy Clint Eastwood
Truly one of the all time best western film and very close to being my favorite film of all time
"You going to do something about it, or just stand there and bleed?"
"Your friends may get me in a rush, but not before I turn your head into a canoe."
Now THOSE are intimidation lines.
Wyatt Earp was a real man. Most of the gun fights in this movie did actually happen. Some consider him a hero that tamed the west with his pistol and a shotgun. Others saw him as a cruel villain who stepped over the line without prejudice. Wyatt in all of the gunfights he had been in, was never shot once. A more historically accurate tale of this movie is called Wyatt Earp played by Kevin Costner. Also if you haven't seen dances with wolves or open range. They are both excellent westerns that'll just hook into the genre.
I remember the first time I watched Dances with Wolves in highschool I thought it was going to be a musical lol. I was completely blown away and so drawn into the story that I actually looked forward to coming to school the next day to watch the rest of it. I watched Open Range in theaters simply because I saw it was another Costner western and it did not disappoint at all.
Open Range is SO. DAMN. GOOD.
Dances With Wolves and Wyatt Earp are great movies but I do prefer Tombstone over 'Wyatt Earp'
Two more relatively recent westerns to check out “Open Range” with Kevin Costner and “Silverado” which also features Kevin Costner in more ensemble cast. Modern classics!
Open Range yes. Silverado....not so much.
Definitely open range and I would throw in Clint Eastwood's The Outlaw Josey Wales 2 of the best westerns ever made!
Open Range for sure, and for more Robert Duval in a cowboy hat I'll throw the miniseries Lonesome Dove into the mix. And for some Robert Duval without a cowboy hat, Secondhand Lions is definitely worth a watch.
@@dravenblackthorn4765 I LOVE Silverado. One of my favorite Westerns, along with Tombstone.
@@lucyislight9949 Look if you like it, that's okay. Like what you like. But for me Silverado is just horrible. I can't buy into any of the characters at all.
Kabir, I can not get Any reactors to react to "Lonesome Dove". It's a 2 or 3 parter but it is the BEST Western of all time. Tommy Lee Jones and Robert Duval are Fantastic! It has Action, Comedy, Love, Adventure, Suspense, Emotion, an Amazing sound track.. great acting, great characters... "Lonesome Dove".
The books were great also!
I love lonesome dove
@SmallandSweet99 Yes! Everyone Loves it. But no one talks about it... or reacts to it on UA-cam. Kabir you can be the First!
I agree! Please do Lonesome Dove!
I was told they have the coat Wyatt was wearing in that River scene in the Tombstone museum. There are bullet holes all over it and you can even make out where his body was because the bullet holes make kind of an outline of his body. I’d like to see it someday.
It's interesting watching someone react who has no idea of the true story behind the movie, who has never heard of "the shootout at the O.K. Corral" nor Wyatt Earp and his brothers. Those of us Americans, especially us older ones who grew up on all aspects of the Wild West, both folklore and fact, appreciate the bits of the movie that made history feel more real than earlier more mythical versions. But it's good to see appreciation of a well-made movie that dealt with aspects of our past that we're not necessarily proud of, from someone with no pre-conceived ideas and just experienced it.
Another amazing western is "Silverado".
I've been to Tombstone. It's pretty small but it looks like the movie portrays it except for some modern roads and power lines.
As a southerner,... your country accent isn't too bad Kabir! 🤠👍🏿
The older spaghetti western with Eastwood " A Fistful Of Dollars " is an early classic. " The Missing" is interesting ..good cinematography and film location
I thought it was funny in the beginning when you said it was a "young Kurt Russell", because he was a child actor and here in the states and we've been watching him since he was twelve years old.
Ole Doc sure can shoot.🤠
I'm not a huge Western fan, but this one is at the top of my list. There was a series years and years ago called Young Guns that you also might like & check out. It was very good and pretty accurate to the times.
One of my all time favorite and one of the most quotable movies. There are some real gems in there lol!
Great reaction video my friend. I love Westerns...another really great one no one talks about is "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford." It's far different than "Tombstone," which is why it's a must see. It's a different style of story telling--different kind of plot. Great film. Great performances. Like Tombstone, it's based on a real story. Other westerns I recommend... Unforgiven, The Oxbow Incident, Winchester 73, The Searchers, High Noon, and Little Big Man. Plus all the Clint Eastwood westerns are pretty awesome.
There were actually six Earp brothers. In addition to Wyatt, Virgil, and Morgan, there was also Warren, James, and Newton.
Warren and James actually rode with Wyatt during the Vendetta Ride and it's odd they they weren't featured in the film.
This is one of the only modern westerns that I truly enjoy and rewatch on a regular basis. It had a MASSIVE all star cast, with names if not faces that you'd recognize today. I mean, Billy Bob Thornton doesn't look the same at all, and Steven Lang (Ike Clanton) just did Avatar 2. Also, it is funny how many of the main cast were also in Marvel movies or TV shows, with Bill Paxton (Morgan Earp) and Powers Boothe (Curly Bill Brocius) being in Marvel's Agents of SHIELD and having a small role in Avengers, and there were others.
Anyway, this is in my top 5 all time favorite movies, and trust me, I've seen movies that date back to the 30's and I like a lot of old cinema! Doc (Val Kilmer) has THE best lines, and he really should have got the Oscar for his performance.
A great western to react to would be Unforgiven with Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman. Fantastic movie.
I remember in history class learning about things like the OK Carrol showdown. Among other things that happened in the west. I always loved the stories. Wild Bill, Doc Holiday...etc were all such interesting people. Even if we don't maybe agree with things they did/did not do. Also reminds me of Annie Oakley in that period. Girl had top noitch gun skill and really pissed off so many men who thought only men were good with guns.
You know how at the end they told you that Wyatt died in Los Angeles in 1929? He was an advisor to the movie industry, hence all the actors at his funeral. John Wayne worked in the prop department moving scenery etc before he was able to break into acting, and he became good friends with Wyatt Earp. In fact he said that his famous walk and drawling speech were based on Wyatt Earp. Wayne said that he was being paid to make the movies, he might as well try to copy the men who had really done the deeds.
You started at the top. My favorite Western movie. Val Kilmer should won an Oscar for the role. Now you need to watch a John Wayne western. My favorite is The Sons of Katie Elder. But, you also can't go wrong with a western directed by John Ford.
My favorite Western of all time! Believe I or not, that scene at the river where Wyatt comes out with guns a blazing and doesn’t get shot, actually happened in real life.
One of the top 2 westerns ever made (IMHO), this and "The Outlaw: Josey Wales.", great action/acting and dialogue in both movies.
I've been waiting for this Kabir. Great movie and reaction. Thanks.
Doc was a brilliant student and dentist. He was forced to go west because of Tuberculosis. His Hungarian lady was big nose Kate. I ate in the restaurant with her name in Tombstone. Wyatt's Jewish lady was Josephine Marcus. She looked after his legend including the book by Lake that became the Television show. He spent time on movie sets telling the young actors about the west.
Old school western? Come on now! :) IF you want an old school movie try "The Wild Bunch" it was very controversial in its time as graphic. Also an absolute classic "Treasure of the Sierra Madre" Looking forward to your reaction.
Lot of these actors you may know from subsequent roles. Ringo was Reese from Terminator. Morgan was the lead in Twister. Ike Clanton is the bad guy general in Avatar. One
of the bad guys who joined Wyatt is the guy with the deadly arrow in Guardians of the Galaxy.
I think you’d really like Silverado - not historical at all, but a big cast of name actors and a lot of fun!
Loved your honest reaction uso
Awesome reaction Kabir...There are several books that revolve around Wyatt Earp... People have compared this movie to an inspiration of The Godfather.
Technically, the Earp's and Doc didn't really get along. Doc was not really that famous...he had tuberculosis; a death wish. Lore has it that Jonny Ringo was faster than Doc but Doc had nothing to live for.
The Earp's had like 8 brothers and 3 sisters. They were years older than these three...
When Doc is getting shaved and says "I'm your huckleberry"...
One of the greatest lines ever...
Awesome reaction👍🏾
Wyatt and Doc were great friends! There are interviews, writings, and plenty of evidence to back that up!
Now you have to watch "Open Range," with Kevin Costner; and "Silverado," with Costner and John Cleese. Then the two inescapably best Clint Eastwood westerns; "Pale Rider," and " Unforgiven," with Morgan Freeman and Gene Hackman. For real western fun, see Clint's "The Outlaw Jose Wales."
Westerns are underrated. I hope you check out more. Real life drama of those times begs for movies and books.
Absolutely by far the best western of modern times
Ringo is scared after Doc's cup twirling, because Doc mimicked every movement Ringo did with his gun, exactly.
Even drunk and dying of TB, Doc still had the ability to take in every movement and the dexterity to match it.
Despite the normal Hollywood embellishments, a pretty surprisingly large amount of what's depicted in this film is essentially true. Wyatt was known for having a temper, and a preference for pistol whipping people, but on balance seems to have been a pretty decent guy. The portrayal of Doc Holliday is probably one of the best that's ever been put on screen. Educated, highly intelligent, and once described by Wyatt Earp as, "a long, lean blonde fellow nearly dead with consumption and at the same time the most skillful gambler and nerviest, speediest, deadliest man with a six-gun I ever knew".
Kilmer's Doc Holiday is in the western film pantheon.
Another great western adventure of a different flavor: "Jeremiah Johnson" 1972
fun fact : Ed Bailey is played by Frank Stallone aka Sly's brother. Its even said he is still proud of having been in this movie he would give autographed photos with him in costume to fans.
This was your first Western? Hmmm … Try Silverado if you want another one. It was my absolute favorite movie for about a decade. Or High Noon or Stagecoach or Unforgiven. There are a bunch of good ones. Butch Cassiday and the Sundance Kid, too. Peace from Ohio … Ooh, I almost forgot to say, Sam Elliot as Virgil, best voice in American cinema.
The acting by Michael Clarke Duncan in The Green Mile and Val Kilmer in Tombstone are always the performances I think of first whenever I think of the best acting that I have ever seen in a movie.
I've seen the real town in Arizona. They put on a show with actors. It's a ghost town now but they keep all the bars and businesses for tourism.
I'm glad you liked this one. I enjoyed your reaction as well. Way to keep an open mind. Thumbs up from me! 👍
I agree 💯. He should have won the Oscar for this role. I have seen this movie so many times and I still get choked up over some of the scenes. The acting in this movie was stellar. Top tier. You need to watch The Count of Monte Cristo. Also the Man in the iron Mask with Leo DiCaprio is awesome too.
I think what makes this movie great is 2 things: based on true stories, and Val Kilmer as Doc Holiday.
Tombstone Arizona is a cool tourist trap to go visit. They reenact shootouts and the saloons are open late
One of the greatest westerns of all time, Val Kilmer was awesome.
Still one of my favorite movies ever. Another modern western you might really enjoy is Open Range with Robert Duvall and Kevin Costner. Monte Walsh with Tom Selleck is another legendary western.
“Doc "was a dentist 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 gun that I ever knew. Wyatt earp
I've been to Tombstone and the area numerous times while living in El Paso, TX and then Las Cruces NM. There's some Hollywood in this, like the red sashes. The cowboys were mostly cattle and horse thieves, working both sides of the border but no red sashes! Wyatt had bullets go through his duster (coat) and shoot his saddle horn and horses but never was wounded. After the fight at the corral, the Earps were charged and tried for murder but acquitted. Johnny Ringgold (Ringo) was found dead with a gunshot wound to the temple and his pistol hanging from a finger of his hand, under a tree about 40 miles east of Tombstone and was buried there. His rifle was leaning against the tree beside him. I have been to the site, which is on private property but the owner allows visitors and has put a gate in the fence for access. At the time, court documents have Doc in Colorado being tried for larceny on the same days around Ringo's death. So if true he couldn't have done the killing. And Wyatt was already four months gone from Arizona Territory to Colorado and no one knows of him returning then leaving again. It was considered a suicide or a killing by a man named Frank Leslie who was nearby with Billy Claiborne actively looking for Ringo. Still a mystery!
Kabir, though I've never seen this movie, if you haven't ever seen The Magnificent 7, I encourage you to watch it. It's spectacular. I'm not talking about the recent remake (I'm never a fan of them), but the original movie from the '60s. Aside from the movie itself, the music score won an Academy Award.
The original Magnificent Seven is one of the first anti hero movies from the early 60s. Yul Brenner and Steve McQueen headline the great cast. I think it’s on par with Tombstone. 40:59