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Release Date: 1967
Cast: James Garner, Robert Ryan, Lonny Chapman, Steve Ihnat, Michael Tolan, Larry Gates, Jason Robards, Bill Fletcher, Charles Aidman, William Windom, Albert Salmi, Monte Markham ...MORE
Cast: James Garner, Robert Ryan, Lonny Chapman, Steve Ihnat, Michael Tolan, Larry Gates, Jason Robards, Bill Fletcher, Charles Aidman, William Windom, Albert Salmi, Monte Markham, William Schallert, Jon Voight ...LESS
Categories: Movies, Western, Revisionist Western, Historical Film, Docudrama, Action/Adventure, Drama Film
Hour of the Gun is 1967 Western film starring James Garner and depicting Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday during their 1881 battles against Ike Clanton and his brothers in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, and the gunfight's aftermath in and around Tombstone, Arizona.
The film is based on the non fiction book Tombstone's Epitaph by Douglas D. Martin, with a screenplay by Edward Anhalt, and directed by John Sturges. This film attempts more historical accuracy than most motion picture accounts of the events, and explores what happened after the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
The film stars, James... MORE
Hour of the Gun is 1967 Western film starring James Garner and depicting Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday during their 1881 battles against Ike Clanton and his brothers in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, and the gunfight's aftermath in and around Tombstone, Arizona.
The film is based on the non fiction book Tombstone's Epitaph by Douglas D. Martin, with a screenplay by Edward Anhalt, and directed by John Sturges. This film attempts more historical accuracy than most motion picture accounts of the events, and explores what happened after the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
The film stars, James Garner as Wyatt Earp, Jason Robards as Doc Holliday, and Robert Ryan as Ike Clanton.
The movie can be seen as a sequel to John Sturges's fictionalized film from ten years earlier, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, which had featured Burt Lancaster as Earp and Kirk Douglas as Holliday. Where Gunfight at the O.K. Corral is more about the main gun battle, this film begins with the gunfight and moves forward from there. Because Hal B. Wallis had scripted everything in the earlier Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Sturges was disappointed with that film. Hour of the Gun is more of a psychological "melancholy LESS
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