Last night I watched the movie for the first time in about forty years and noticed the guy in the skunk hat, too. It seemed kind of odd considering this movie took place in the post-Civil War west and not the Davy Crockett or mountain-man era. If you wanted to create a back-story for this guy, he could have been either the village idiot, or maybe one of the last buffalo hunters who were still working in Kansas before the "bufflers" were all killed off.
Most of the action takes place in 1872, at which time I don't think there even was a "Dodge City" per se but a camp outside Fort Dodge where buffalo hunters could sell the hides from their kills and spend their money on the usual vices.
(See the movie WYATT EARP during the buffalo-hunting segment.) I don't think the cattle herds from Texas started going to Dodge until a few years later. (I'm going by memory.) I suppose even during Dodge's cattle-town years (which is what the movie mostly deals with) you might have found some hide-hunter wearing a skunk hat but it still seemed odd.
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Samoan Bob
9 years ago
Outside of the skunk hat man and a few other minor quibbles, this movie has some of my favorite Western costuming. The hats, the colorful (but lived in) shirts, the high cut trousers, the stove pipe boots and the high-worn gunbelts are all pretty much spot on. I also love the opulent sets. I get the feeling that this is how Tombstone wanted to look, but they just didn't capture the same feeling and texture. Maybe it was just the 90s cinematography?
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Piperson
8 years ago
I start to swoon when I see the tilt of Errol Flynn's hat. Nobody could wear a hat like he could.
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