Val Kilmer as Doc Holiday looking in the distance in Tombstone
The Big Picture In the modern history of Westerns, it would be hard to find a cowboy as charismatic or instantly iconic as Val Kilmer's portrayal of Doc Holliday in 1993's Tombstone. Today considered one of the greatest westerns ever made, Kilmer's performance as the well-educated gunslinger with a quick draw is one of the best of his career, with Holliday's classy wit and careless daring shining through every one of his scenes.
Release Date December 25, 1993 Director George P.
Although the film doesn't delve into the prevalence or full implications of Holliday's disease, the legacy of tuberculosis in America is no laughing matter. The illness is so fatal and contagious that it is estimated to have killed one out of every seven people who lived before the year 1800, with preventative sanitation measures only being fully implemented in the years after Holliday had already contracted the disease.
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