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25 December 1993 (USA) moreTagline:
I'm your Huckleberry! morePlot:
A successful lawman's plans to retire anonymously in Tombstone, Arizona, are disrupted by the kind of outlaws he was famous for eliminating. full summary | full synopsisAwards:
2 nominations moreNewsDesk:
(11 articles)
Chriqui and Kilmer Join War Film (From Atomic Popcorn. 28 October 2009, 6:36 AM, PDT)
The Ten Faces of Wyatt Earp - From Kevin Costner to Erroll Flynn
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Val Kilmer's Greatest Performance more (369 total)Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Kurt Russell | ... | Wyatt Earp | |
| Val Kilmer | ... | Doc Holliday | |
| Sam Elliott | ... | Virgil Earp | |
| Bill Paxton | ... | Morgan Earp | |
| Powers Boothe | ... | Curly Bill Brocius | |
| Michael Biehn | ... | Johnny Ringo | |
| Charlton Heston | ... | Henry Hooker | |
| Jason Priestley | ... | Deputy Billy Breckinridge | |
| Jon Tenney | ... | John Behan, Cochise County Sheriff | |
| Stephen Lang | ... | Ike Clanton | |
| Thomas Haden Church | ... | Billy Clanton | |
| Dana Delany | ... | Josephine Marcus | |
| Paula Malcomson | ... | Allie Earp | |
| Lisa Collins | ... | Louisa Earp | |
| Dana Wheeler-Nicholson | ... | Mattie Blaylock Earp, aka Celia Maddon |
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Rated R for violence. (director's cut)Parents Guide:
View content advisory for parentsRuntime:
130 min | USA:134 min (director's cut)Country:
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2.35 : 1 moreSound Mix:
Dolby SRCertification:
Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:A (Nova Scotia) | Canada:R (Ontario) | Canada:PA (Manitoba) | Iceland:16 | South Korea:12 | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Finland:K-16 | Germany:16 | Norway:15 | Singapore:PG | Spain:18 | Sweden:15 | UK:15 | USA:RFun Stuff
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At the Birdcage Theater, one of the cowboys sees the juggler, "Professor Gilman" and says "Aw! Professor Gilman? I seen him in Bisbee. He catches things." To which another cowboy stands up, pulls a gun and says "Hey, Professor! Catch this!" and shoots one of the bowling pins he's juggling. This is based on a true anecdote told in the Time Life book series "The Old West-Gunfighters" profile of the OK Corral shootout. As in real life, the juggler raced off stage yelling "My God! They're really shooting at us!" Actually...."Professor" Gillam was performing a show in which blanks would be fired at him, and he would spit slugs out of his mouth that he had already prepared, when the cowboy made his "Catch this" remark. moreGoofs:
Continuity: During the first Mexican village scene, when the wedding party is leaving the church the preacher puts on his hat inside the church. As the party leaves the church he is seen putting it on again. moreQuotes:
Wyatt Earp: [Tyler reaches for his gun] Go ahead, skin it! Skin that smokewagon and see what happens...Johnny Tyler: [pauses, scared] M-mister, I'm gettin' tired of your...
Wyatt Earp: [slaps Tyler across the face, unafraid] I'm gettin' tired of all your gas, now jerk that pistol and go to work!
Wyatt Earp: [slaps him harder, now completely steely-eyed] I said throw down, boy!
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Le Danse Macabre moreFAQ
What is special about the gun Wyatt Earp retrieves before the fight at the O.K. Corral?What is the card game Wyatt Earp operates?
What exactly is the drug Mattie is addicted to?
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Now Tombstone is a film that I would call the last great western of its genre so far. It has every sub plot you could want in you're average film and especially in a western. They have a great cast on board also to establish this gang of ragger muffins. Kurt Russell as Wyatt Earp is just as good as Costner and Lancaster were. Val Kilmer is probably the main reason why every fan of it's genre talk about it so much as he is not just a fine actor in this but you believe that Doc Holiday and him were somehow related as he takes on the exact same sense of humour which I have read in books and his likeness is there also from what I have seen in pictures.
Val Kilmer has been in a lot of films but only half of them were good and this goes into one of his best along with Oliver Stone's The Doors and Willow without doubt has to get a mention. There is a superb cast here which makes up of Bill Paxton, Sam Elliot, Michael Biehn, Powers Boothe, Stephen Lang, Billy Zane and of course Charlton Heston. I could go on for even longer mentioning some of the great actors that star in this but the sheer action of vengeance of it make it one of the best action westerns. There are your two type of westerns like High Noon and The Searchers which are very calm but intense films. Then you have The Wild Bunch and Tombstone which are just blood thirsty with plenty of action to cater for all tastes of films.
I am not to familiar with the director but he is surely missed as far as making a western like this is concerned.