Iconic still from the movie Tombstone featuring Val Kilmer, Bill Paxton, Sam Elliott, and Kurt Russell as the Earps and Doc Holliday.
Summary Tombstone and its 1957 predecessor, Gunfight At The O.K. Corral, are two of the most famous dramatizations of the life of notorious, gunslinging lawman, Wyatt Earp. The Kirk Douglas movie is a quintessential Western classic, while Tombstone’s growth in popularity has deemed it a cult hit. Both revolve around the same event lifted from Earp’s posthumous biography: a shoot-out that occurred in the town of Tombstone, Arizona.
Related 10 Best Movies To Watch Like Tombstone Tombstone is a great entry point to the Western genre. But where should viewers go next? These 10 films have similar characters and themes. The Real Life O.K. Corral & What Actually Happened The Short Encounter Did Not Actually Take Place At The O.K. Corral The title Gunfight At The O.K. Corral is misleading as the real confrontation did not even take place there. The main historical sources, testimonies from the preliminary hearings held after the event, reported the confrontation occurring in an adjacent side street six doors down, at the side of C.S. Fly’s photography studio. The studio can be spotted in the Tombstone scene.
Despite its ominous name, the real Tombstone was an unextraordinary mining boomtown, like so many others that sprung up along the frontier. Shootings were a frequent event, so much so that Tombstone introduced an ordinance preventing citizens from carrying weapons into town. Though Westerns would have audiences believe in a lawless age of gunslingers, the reality was that few people were permitted to bear firearms.
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