Gunfight at the OK Corral (1957)
Director: John Sturges
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming
Synopsis:
Lawman Wyatt Earp and itinerant gambler Doc Holliday strike an unsteady friendship that leads them into the famous showdown in Tombstone, Arizona.
Impressions:
While this is far from the most historically accurate account of the Gunfight at the OK Corral, it's a solid movie that nicely juxtaposes the straight-arrow Wyatt Earp with the barely redeemable Doc Holliday. (Compare and contrast with a similar pair-up of Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas in 1959's The Devil's Disciple.) You don't normally see Douglas play a role that has so little sympathetic quality, so it's an interesting change of pace. To be brutally honest, there isn't that much that elevates this movie above a stock Western, but the Lancaster-Douglas dynamic is fairly interesting and if all you want is a decent Western, it's worth seeing.
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