March 18 - Tombstone

Today’s movie is a western with a scene that happens on March 18. Watch it tonight and enjoy.

TOMBSTONE      

The Earp brothers, Virgil, Morgan and Wyatt settle in Tombstone Arizona. There they meet old friend “Doc” Holliday and new acquaintance Josephine Marcus. The brothers run a saloon and soon have a run-in with a gang called The Cowboys that try to rule the town, after Wyatt helps arrest a drunken member of the gang “Curly Bill” Brocius. He is acquitted, but Virgil is made town marshal. This leads to the famed gunfight at the O.K. Corral, where the Earp brothers kill several members of the Cowboys. In return on March 18, 1882 [1:20:31 to 1:29:47] the surviving Cowboys ambush the Earps, killing Morgan and wounding Virgil. Wyatt becomes a US marshal and vows to kill any Cowboy on sight. In a gunfight Wyatt kills “Curly Bill” now the leader of the Cowboys. He is replaced by Johnny Ringo, who challenges Wyatt to a showdown. “Doc” Holliday kills Ringo then Wyatt and his deputies kill all but one of the Cowboys.  “Doc” later dies of tuberculosis, with Wyatt at his bedside.

And Die in the West by Paula M. Merks (William, Morrow & Co., New York, 1989)

at pages 338-340 gives the date of his death

Director - George P. Cosmatos

Producer - James Jacks, Sean Daniel and Bob Misiorowski

Screenplay - Kevin Jarre

Released – December 24, 1993

Runtime – 2 hours 10 minutes

Starring –

Kurt Russell as Wyatt Earp

Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday

Sam Elliott as Virgil Earp

Bill Paxton as Morgan Earp

Powers Boothe as "Curly Bill" Brocius

Michael Biehn as Johnny Ringo

Charlton Heston as Henry Hooker

Jason Priestley as Billy Breakenridge

Jon Tenney as Sheriff Johnny Behan

Stephen Lang as Ike Clanton

Thomas Haden Church as Billy Clanton

Dana Delany as Josephine Marcus

Robert Mitchum as Narrator 

Harry Carey, Jr. as Marshal Fred White

Billy Bob Thornton as Johnny "Madcap" Tyler

Billy Zane as Mr. Fabian

Copyright by Ivan Walters in 2015