After their cattle are stolen and their brother murdered, the Earp brothers have a score to settle with the Clanton family.After their cattle are stolen and their brother murdered, the Earp brothers have a score to settle with the Clanton family.After their cattle are stolen and their brother murdered, the Earp brothers have a score to settle with the Clanton family.
- Awards
- 3 wins
Robert Adler
- Stagecoach Driver
- (uncredited)
C.E. Anderson
- Townsman
- (uncredited)
Don Barclay
- Opera House Owner
- (uncredited)
Hank Bell
- Opera House Patron
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaThe cantankerous Walter Brennan disliked John Ford so much that he never worked with him again. One time when Brennan was having trouble getting into the saddle, Ford yelled, "Can't you even mount a horse?" Brennan shot back, "No, but I got three Oscars for acting!"
- GoofsThe movie shows James Earp killed (murdered) with his marker showing "born 1864 died 1882". However, James Earp was in fact born in 1841 and died in 1926 of natural causes. It was Morgan Earp who was murdered on 18 March 1882.
- Quotes
Wyatt Earp: Mac, you ever been in love?
Mac: No, I've been a bartender all me life.
- Alternate versionsIn 1994, an alternate "preview" version of the film was found that runs 103 or 104 minutes, according to different sources. In June 1946, director John Ford showed producer Darryl F. Zanuck his cut of the film. Zanuck's opinion was that the film had some problems, so Zanuck reshot certain scenes with Director Lloyd Bacon. Zanuck also recut other scenes, changed the music at certain points, and slightly altered the finale. In all, 35 minutes of footage was shot or recut, and the film was released at 97 minutes. Both the 103-104 min. archival preview print and the 97 min. release print are on the Fox DVD released January 6, 2004.
- ConnectionsEdited into John Ford: The Man Who Invented America (2019)
- Soundtracks(Oh My Darlin') Clementine
(1884) (uncredited)
Music by Percy Montrose
Lyrics by H.S. Thompson
Played and Sung during the opening credits and at the end
Also Whistled by Henry Fonda entering the hotel lobby on Sunday morning; stops whistling when he sees Clementine
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Good Henry Fonda Western but misses the facts by a mile
This will be remembered as a good Henry Fonda western showing the growth and civilizing of a Western town but coming nowhere close to representing the facts on which it is supposed to be based. Putting aside the events connected to Wyatt Earp, there is nothing to indicate that Tombstone is a boomtown based on mining (except for one tiny reference to prospecting). If we are going to have a shootout at the OK corral, where are the McLaury brothers, 2 of the 3 people killed at the shootout? The shootout itself bears virtually no resemblance to the actual event and the killing and wounding of the Earp brothers, Doc Holliday and their adversaries as depicted in the film are totally at odds with reality, with the exception of Billy Clanton (killed) and Wyatt Earp (uninjured). I have to wonder if John Ford really believed he was being accurate since the history of the event was not widely known at the time of the film. Both female leads are pretty bad, both as characters as well as how they are acted. I liked Victor Mature as Holliday, but he seemed out of his element, I think being best suited to film noirs. He is too self-involved to develop any real bond with Wyatt, which is a detriment in this film. Doc Holliday has been played by a wide range of actors, from Mature to Kirk Douglas, to Jason Robards Jr. to the more modern portrayals of Val Kilmer and Dennis Quaid. They were all interesting and very different from each other. I guess Doc is just a great character. Tombstone and Wyatt Earp are the only two films that attempted to get the Tombstone story right. All the other Earp movies just played with various elements of the true story. My Darling Clementine makes a good Fonda double feature with the Ox Bow Incident. 7 of 10 stars.
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- John Ford's My Darling Clementine
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- $2,000,000 (estimated)
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- $15,293
- Runtime1 hour 37 minutes
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