THIS FILM IS HORRIBLE!!!

To a historian like myself, this movie is one big pile of garbage. It's a slap in the face to historians and an insult. If you want to make a movie about Wyatt Earp and the gunfight at OK Corral for God's sake please have a bit of historical accuracy. The casting is HORRIBLE, except for Kurt Douglas who delivers a fine performance and is the only one with a mustache and the sexy Rhonda Fleming everybody else is pathetic. For starters the wild west composed of men, real men, who were dirty, gruff and tough and that wore facial hair. Burt Lancaster is a wimp and Douglass would of made a better Earp. The two of them should of switched roles. I think Lancaster doesn't wear a mustache because back then the studios had a difficult time selling an actor to the audience who was covered up with some facial hair. The same thing happened to Gregory Peck in the 1950 film The Gunfighter where he wore a mustache, playing Johnny Ringo. The film bombed because audiences didn't like seeing him with the mustache. Reality check. Their actors, they have to get into their role. That's there job. Lancaster is pathetic for not getting into his role, such as Douglas did. The other cast is just as atrocious. The Clanton gang aren't the least bit threating and the producers of this awful film should of taken note of My Darling Clementine to see what a Clanton looks like. Walter Brennan as Ike Clanton in that film was truly great and mean. It's one of his many underrated roles of such a amazing actor. The Earp brothers played by DeForest Kelly and others, is also horrible. I didn't care much for Bill Paxton in the role of Tombstone as Morgan, but he sure does look more tougher and accurate in the role then old Bones does. John Ireland as Johnny Ringo is also a joke. Ringo is supposed to be a psycho. Ireland is too much of a wimp. Two notable actors who played Ringo with perfection is of course Michael Biehn in Tombstone who was absolutely amazing and Peck.

I'm not going to even mention the problems with the inaccurate history. I'll be writing a book. All I have to say is it's just awful. I can't even think of enough descriptive words, because I'm beside myself at how bad this film is. It sucks and it's a piece of trash. The only positives in this film is Douglas, Fleming, and Dimitri Tiomkin's musical score. Tiomkin I think is the greatest movie composer ever and two years later after this crap he would score the movie Rio Bravo which is my favorite western of all time and has a stellar Tiomikin score. Skip this crappy movie and if you want historical accuracy of Wyatt Earp and the gunfight at OK Corral watch Tombstone. * out of ****