My Darling Clementine

A recapitulation of Wyatt Earp story of Gun Fight at OK Carol. This movie was in black & white. However I prefer the Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas version which is in colour and action packed.

Dissapointed as thought such a rare item would have special features but it has no extras. Even the aspect ratio is 4:3

Not damaged during delivery

Enjoyed the movie to the fullest. An old time western. A black & white movie full of action.

This review is for the ARROW BLU RAY. An excellent transfer,1.33:1 (narrow bars left and right), clear sound and perhaps less than excellent English subtitles (the white on lighter backgrounds doesn't show perfectly, but my HOH wife managed pretty well.). Plenty of extras including a fascinating little doc on Ford and Monument valley, The quality of which is not perfect except for the film clips, but it is very informative. I won't say much about the film. It really is a case of "Print the Legend", and Ford does it in one of his pictorially best films. The B/W photography is just superb. The use of music and folk songs again is perfect. The acting of Fonda (just so right as Earp), and Victor Mature, giving possibly one of his best performences, as Holliday is just spot on and Brennan shows us again what a menacing villain he can be. A great script and Ford's direction make this one of the great films, that just happens to be a Western, and a classic!

Of all the movies made about Wyatt Earp, the Earp brothers, Tombstone, and the Gunfight at the OK Corral, this one is my favorite...because it is directed masterfully by John Ford, shot in Monument Valley, stars Henry Fonda in one of his better performances; and because it tells such a compelling story. But the story - as in all other Wyatt Earp films - is highly fictionalized. For example, Clementine Carter is not a historical person...which takes some of the impact out of the title (and the theme song) doesn't it? Unlike the movie characters, the Earps were never cattlemen or cowboys; Wyatt, for example - in addition to his short stints as a lawman - was a professional gambler. Newman "Old Man" Clanton (Walter Brennan) actually died prior to the gunfight and probably never met any of the Earps. Doc Holliday (Victor Mature) - when he practiced medicine - was a dentist, not a surgeon, and he survived the shootout. James Earp, who was the first to die in the story, actually lived until 1926. Linda Darnall's Chihuahua, the love interest of Doc Holliday, is probably an amalgam of Big Nose Kate, Doc's common law wife and other females in his life. The film gives the date of the gunfight as 1882 when it actually occurred in 1881. The fault for the innacuracies in the screenplay of this and other Wyatt Earp movies can be attributed in large part to Earp himself, who constantly reinvented himself and rewrote his autobiography to make him look better. But there are points of historical accuracy in this film...Doc Holliday did have TB and died from it in 1887; and the gunfight did take place, though not for the reasons portrayed and not at the OK Corral. Forget the fiction when you watch this though and just enjoy the compelling story...one of John Ford's best Westerns!

Good storyline. The cinematography alone is worth watching. Glad to have it in my collection.