Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957 film)

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral/Last Train from Gun Hill film poster
Directed by	John Sturges
Produced by	Hal B. Wallis
Written by	Leon Uris from a story by George Scullin
Starring	Burt Lancaster Kirk Douglas Rhonda Fleming Jo Van Fleet John Ireland
Music by	Dimitri Tiomkin
Cinematography	Charles B. Lang Jr.
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date(s)	May 30, 1957
Running time	122 min.
Country	USA
Language	English
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Gunfight at the O.K. Corral is a 1957 movie starring Burt Lancaster as Wyatt Earp and Kirk Douglas as Doc Holliday about the famous October 26, 1881 gunfight in Tombstone, Arizona Territory. Directed by John Sturges and featuring a screenplay written by novelist Leon Uris, the movie has an outstanding supporting cast including Rhonda Fleming, John Ireland, Jo Van Fleet, Martin Milner, Dennis Hopper, Jack Elam, Lee Van Cleef, DeForest Kelley, Earl Holliman and Charles Herbert. The movie was nominated for two Academy Awards in the Sound and Editing categories.

Sturges also directed a sequel ten years later, Hour of the Gun, with James Garner as Earp and Jason Robards as Holliday.

"It’s not your fault, Kate. It’s not my fault. It’s not anybody's fault. It’s just the way the cards fall."—Doc Holliday

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DeForest Kelley played the part of Morgan Earp in this film. Ten years later, as Doctor McCoy, he and others from the USS Enterprise landing crew faced the Earps in an episode of Star Trek.

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