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Pete Hamill (writer)
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1 August 1971 (USA) more
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For the past 90 years these three people have been heroes. Until now!
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1 win more
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A Look At the Man Behind the Gun more (14 total)

Cast

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Stacy Keach ... Doc Holliday

Faye Dunaway ... Katie Elder
Harris Yulin ... Wyatt Earp
Michael Witney ... Ike Clanton (as Mike Witney)
Denver John Collins ... The Kid
Dan Greenburg ... Clum, Editor Tombstone Epitaph
John Scanlon ... Bartlett, Saloon Owner
Richard McKenzie ... Tombstone Sheriff John Behan
John Bottoms ... Virgil Earp
Ferdinand Zogbaum ... James Earp
Penelope Allen ... Mattie Earp
Hedy Sontag ... Alley Earp
James Greene ... Frank McLowery
Antonia Rey ... Concha, Whore
Philip Shafer ... Morgan Earp (as Phil Shafer)
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96 min
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6 out of 7 people found the following review useful.
A Look At the Man Behind the Gun, 20 September 2002
6/10
Author: EmperorNortonII from San Francisco, California

"Doc" is similar to "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," in that it is a revisionist Western attempting to explode some mythology of the American West, which earlier Hollywood Westerns would glamourize. Here, Doc Holliday and Marshall Wyatt Earp are shown as not quite the good guys Hollywood has long portrayed them to be. The story of "Doc" follows the legendary outlaw Dr. John Henry "Doc" Holliday and his lover "Big Nose Kate" Elder on their way to the storied Gunfight at the OK Corral. Doc Holliday is played by Stacy Keach, as a soft-spoken gent who is deadly with a six-shooter. The film is gritty and dirty, but the profane dialogue seems like it was added just because the screenwriter could. My biggest problem is that the scenes look like they cut away too soon, and should go on at least a few seconds longer. "Doc" may not tell the true story of the Gunfight at the OK Corral, but at least tries to keep an enduring Western legend alive.

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