Hour of the Gun (1967) on Netflix
Deputy marshal Wyatt Earp, his brothers Virgil and Morgan, and Doc Holliday face Ike Clanton's gang in a gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Clanton then has the Earps charged with murder.
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Plot summary
Wyatt Earp serves as deputy marshal in Tombstone, Arizona. His older brother Virgil holds the city marshal's office there, and his younger brother Morgan works as a special police officer. Doc Holliday, a gambler, receives a badge for the occasion. Outnumbered, the four of them face Ike Clanton's gang in a gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Clanton makes his living as a rustler, and he presses for the Earps to answer murder charges in court.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Hour of the Gun (1967)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Garner wrote in his memoirs that he agreed to make the film without reading the script because he thought so highly of Sturges.
- The film is more accurate than earlier O.K. Corral pictures in one respect: it correctly shows Ike Clanton surviving the shoot-out, whereas previous films had shown him being one of its fatalities.
- Hour of the Gun portrays Doc Holliday as a graying Civil War veteran much older than the Earp brothers, though in fact he was younger than most of them and was too young to have served in that conflict.
- The opening depicts the gunfight as happening at the O.K. Corral, whereas it actually happened in the alley near the corral between Fremont and Allen streets.
SPOILER
The film has Ike Clanton ultimately being killed by Wyatt Earp, whereas Clanton actually died in an 1887 duel with a constable named Jonas Brighton.
