Tombstone

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Rated R.
Originally released as motion picture in 1993.
Includes original theatrical trailers and chapter search.
Hi-fi Dolby surround stereo ; digital sound.
"13078."
Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, Michael Biehn, Powers Boothe, Robert Burke, Dana Delany, Sam Elliott, Stephen Lang, Joanna Pacula, Bill Paxton, Jason Priestley, Michael Rooker, Jon Tenney, Billy Zane, Charlton Heston.
U.S. Marshall Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday team up to bring law to the lawless in a showdown with ruthless outlaws at the O.K. Corral.
DVD.

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Val Kilmer Steals the Show submitted by michrigan on July 30, 2014, 12:04am This is an excellent, even thrilling movie. It vaguely follows the history of the story of Wyatt Earp in Tombstone, but sacrifices historical accuracy for good drama and excitement. It works far better than most such movies. Val Kilmer shows he is a unique actor in his role of Doc Holliday. He combines expressions of his face and in his speaking to come off as a genuine hero and thorn in the side of the likes of the Clanton family, the McLaury's who were in the fight at the O.K. Corral, which was really fought in a vacant lot next to Fly's Photography shop. I don't believe Johnny Ringo was involved in any way in the real drama, but the movie portrayed him in the climax scene where he sets up a shootout with Wyatt, who supposedly knows that Ringo is too fast for him. In real life Earp said that the winner of such shootouts (which were mostly mythical in real life) was the one "who takes his time". In real life Earp was perhaps greater than his legend. He was the only one who was at the O.K. Corral who did not take a bullet and in fact, in his entire life involving the law and gunplay was never hit by a bullet. He was not one to carry a gun most of the time and he was never the head sheriff or marshall, but always a deputy. He ran for sheriff against Johnny Behan in Tombstone but lost in a rigged election so became deputy marshall for his brother Virgil. Much of the action near the end of the movie uses fiction to display the real life vengeance or "reckoning" as Kilmer calls it, by Wyatt after the murder of Morgan and ambush of Virgil. In real life Wyatt went to trial for murder of the Billy Clanton and the McLaury's at the O.K. Corral, but was acquitted. The movie never mentions this.