Doc Holliday travels to Tombstone, Ariz., with prostitute Katie Elder. Although the trip is difficult because Doc is ill with tuberculosis, they eventually reach their destination, where Holliday is reunited with his old friend Marshal Wyatt Earp, who has been clashing with the Clanton gang. Tensions between Earp and the Clantons rise until their infamous final showdown brings it to a head.
Acting
Stacy Keach's consumptive, cynical Holliday reeks of death.
Writing
Pete Hamill's script treats legends like rotting meat.
Director
Frank Perry
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was part of 1970s Hollywood's collective dismantling of Western mythology, alongside Peckinpah and Leone's later work.
Frank Perry insisted on shooting the O.K. Corral sequence in muddy, overcast conditions specifically to spite Ford's pristine Monument Valley version.
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