Legendary marshal Wyatt Earp, now a weary gunfighter, joins his brothers Morgan and Virgil to pursue their collective fortune in the thriving mining town of Tombstone. But Earp is forced to don a badge again and get help from his notorious pal Doc Holliday when a gang of renegade brigands and rustlers begins terrorizing the town.
Acting
Kilmer's consumptive gunfighter is pure magnetic tragedy.
Writing
Doc Holliday's dialogue is endlessly quotable poetry.
Practical Effects
Gunfight chaos feels dangerous, not choreographed.
Director
George P. Cosmatos
Kurt Russell
Wyatt Earp
Val Kilmer
Doc Holliday
Michael Biehn
Johnny Ringo
Powers Boothe
Curly Bill
Robert John Burke
Frank McLaury
Dana Delany
Josephine
Sam Elliott
Virgil Earp
Stephen Lang
Ike Clanton
Terry O'Quinn
Mayor Clum
Joanna Pacula
Kate
Bill Paxton
Morgan Earp
Jason Priestley
Billy Breckenridge
Michael Rooker
Sherman McMasters
Jon Tenney
Behan
Dana Wheeler-Nicholson
Mattie Earp
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kilmer reportedly did his own gun-spinning tricks after extensive training, and reportedly improvised Holliday's cup-spinning in the poker scene. Director George P. Cosmatos allegedly ghost-directed after studio intervention on the original cut.
Released the same year as Kevin Costner's 'Wyatt Earp,' this leaner, weirder film won the box office duel and became the definitive pop-culture Earp despite its troubled production.
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