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Tombstone
Comment by badwolf1013 at 15/01/2025 at 21:35 UTC*
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Yep. The resemblance between Kurt Russell and the real Wyatt Earp is pretty amazing. And most movies about the O.K. Corral (and after) always cast Doc Holliday with an older actor (which I guess is plausible given how ill he was,) but the man was thirty years old when he was in Tombstone. He died at 36.
I also think that Robert Mitchum as the narrator was perfect as well. I often think about him describing Wyatt Earp's funeral where "Tom Mix wept." Tom Mix played Earp in an early movie about the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral and Earp was on set as a consultant where the ex-lawman and the actor became friends.
There's a Blake Edwards movie from 1988 that imagines Wyatt Earp (played by James Garner) and Tom Mix (Bruce Willis) teaming up to solve a murder mystery in Hollywood. It didn't do well at the box office, but I like it a lot.
Edit: Sunset. The movie is called Sunset. Don't know why I left that out.
Comment by Eroe777 at 15/01/2025 at 22:46 UTC
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Right down to the facial hair. It was all real.
Comment by SendInYourSkeleton at 16/01/2025 at 00:41 UTC
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Even fat Billy Bob Thornton doing good work.
Comment by The_ZombyWoof at 16/01/2025 at 04:59 UTC
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I mean, compare and contract the casting of Tombstone with Costner's Wyatt Earp, and you'll see how great those choices were.
I just got done with a podcast called What Went Wrong, which explains all things that went wrong when making a specific film, the Tombstone episode is a two-parter and, damn, it was a miracle that that even came to the screen.