From Wichita to Dodge City, to the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Wyatt Earp is taught that nothing matters more than family and the law. Joined by his brothers and Doc Holliday, Earp wages war on the dreaded Clanton and McLaury gangs.
Acting
Dennis Quaid's gaunt, consumptive Doc Holliday steals everything.
Cinematography
Owen Roizman makes the desert look impossibly beautiful.
Practical Effects
Real locations, real heat, real sweat—no CGI frontier here.
Director
Lawrence Kasdan
Kevin Costner
Wyatt Earp
Dennis Quaid
Doc Holliday
Gene Hackman
Nicholas Earp
David Andrews
James Earp
Linden Ashby
Morgan Earp
Jeff Fahey
Ike Clanton
Joanna Going
Josie Marcus
Mark Harmon
Sheriff Johnny Behan
Michael Madsen
Virgil Earp
Catherine O'Hara
Allie Earp
Bill Pullman
Ed Masterson
Isabella Rossellini
Big Nose Kate
Tom Sizemore
Bat Masterson
JoBeth Williams
Bessie Earp
Mare Winningham
Mattie Blaylock
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Dennis Quaid lost 43 pounds and had dental surgery to replicate Holliday's tuberculosis-ravaged appearance. Method acting from a different era.
Released six months after Tombstone, this was the expensive, Oscar-hungry Wyatt Earp movie that lost to Kurt Russell's scrappier, more quotable rival. Hollywood loves a duel.
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