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Tombstone is a 1993 American Western film directed by George P. Cosmatos, written by Kevin Jarre (who was also the original director, but was replaced early in production [4]), and starring Kurt Russell and Val Kilmer, with Sam Elliott, Bill Paxton, Powers Boothe, Michael Biehn, and Dana Delany in supporting roles, and narration by Robert Mitchum.
Tombstone, the Town Too Tough to Die is a 1942 American Western film about the Gunfight at the OK Corral. [1] [2] [3] It is directed by William McGann and stars Richard Dix as Wyatt Earp, Kent Taylor as Doc Holliday and Edgar Buchanan as Curly Bill Brocious. The supporting cast features Rex Bell as Virgil Earp and Victor Jory as Ike Clanton.
The gunfight was relatively unknown to the American public until Lake published the two books and after the movie was made. [5] Director John Ford said that when he was a prop boy in the early days of silent pictures, Earp would visit pals he knew from his Tombstone days on the sets. "I used to give him a chair and a cup of coffee, and he told ...
George Pan Cosmatos (4 January 1941 – 19 April 2005) was a Greek-Italian film director and screenwriter. Following early success in his home country with drama films such as Massacre in Rome with Richard Burton (based on the real-life Ardeatine massacre), Cosmatos retooled his career towards mainstream "blockbuster" action and adventure films, including The Cassandra Crossing and Escape to ...
In the 1960s, Jarre had small acting parts in the TV series Flipper.In England, while his father was scoring the film Ryan's Daughter, Kevin became a friend of writer/director David Lean, who encouraged him to take up screenwriting and directing, giving him the books James Boswell's Life of Johnson and Alan Moorehead's The Blue Nile and The White Nile.
But it was the popular movie Gunfight at the O.K. Corral that cemented the incident and its erroneous location in popular consciousness. The movie and accompanying mythologizing also altered the way that the public thought of the Earps and the outlaws. Prior to the movie, the media often criticized the Earps' actions in Tombstone.
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Tombstone, the Town Too Tough to Die: June 15, 1942: Are Husbands Necessary? June 16, 1942: I Live on Danger: produced by Pine-Thomas Productions: June 25, 1942: Beyond the Blue Horizon: July 1, 1942: Night in New Orleans: July 13, 1942: Sweater Girl: July 23, 1942: Priorities on Parade: August 11, 1942: Wake Island: Nominee for the Academy ...