Movie
1957
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral is a 1957 American Western film starring Burt Lancaster as Wyatt Earp and Kirk Douglas as Doc Holliday, and loosely based on the actual event in 1881. The film was directed by John Sturges from a screenplay written by novelist Leon Uris. It was a remake of the 1939 film Frontier Marshal, starring Randolph Scott, and of John Ford's 1946 film My Darling Clementine.
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When long-brewing conflict between feuding clans in Tombstone, Arizona finally reached its culmination on 24 October 1881, the resulting gun violence did not last more than a few dozen seconds. Hardly anyone at that time could have predicted that the incident, known as the ‘Showdown at the O.K. Corral’, would gradually assume epic proportions and become a crucial part of American folklore. The myth of the O.K. Corra…More
