wyatte-1
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I know...it's a typical "B", 50's movie, and as such, immune from historical consideration.
This one was actually "narrated"...with names like "Johnny Ringo", Ike Clanton, and "Curly Bill"...real characters that lived in Tombstone.
The opening lines talked about a attempted murder happening on a trail outside the town of Phoenix...near Tombstone. Any Arizona 5 year old then, or now, knows phoenix was a barely existing village, two hard days ride from the thriving city of Tucson, and 4 hard days ride from Phoenix to Tombstone.
These characters lived...some died near Tombstone in 1881... The hero was a captain of the the "Arizona Rangers"...which wasn't formed until 1901.
B movie?...OK, I sure wish they'd leave real historical names alone.
All the gagging pseudo-history aside....I did enjoy George Montgomery.
George Williams....Tombstone Arizona
This one was actually "narrated"...with names like "Johnny Ringo", Ike Clanton, and "Curly Bill"...real characters that lived in Tombstone.
The opening lines talked about a attempted murder happening on a trail outside the town of Phoenix...near Tombstone. Any Arizona 5 year old then, or now, knows phoenix was a barely existing village, two hard days ride from the thriving city of Tucson, and 4 hard days ride from Phoenix to Tombstone.
These characters lived...some died near Tombstone in 1881... The hero was a captain of the the "Arizona Rangers"...which wasn't formed until 1901.
B movie?...OK, I sure wish they'd leave real historical names alone.
All the gagging pseudo-history aside....I did enjoy George Montgomery.
George Williams....Tombstone Arizona
After "Wyatte Earp".... and "Tombstone"........
Overexposure?
Does anybody see....ever....that there is any likelihood that there will be another quality movie on the man, or the town?
Personally, I really don't care....after so many 50's style movies...these two, nearly devoid of drug store cowboy hats, uninvented (at the time) modern gun rigs (execpt for Cosner's) and 50's dialog.... they were nearly "spiritual".
However, having lived in Tombstone since 1971, I know what economic effect the two movies had on the west's most famous gunfighter town....nothing short of a windfall. For that reason only, I'd love to see another one....perhaps based more on Alvira Earps (Virgil's fiery Irish wife, written by Frank Waters)..."The Earps of Tombstone"....
George, reenactment actor/director....Tombstone Arizona
Overexposure?
Does anybody see....ever....that there is any likelihood that there will be another quality movie on the man, or the town?
Personally, I really don't care....after so many 50's style movies...these two, nearly devoid of drug store cowboy hats, uninvented (at the time) modern gun rigs (execpt for Cosner's) and 50's dialog.... they were nearly "spiritual".
However, having lived in Tombstone since 1971, I know what economic effect the two movies had on the west's most famous gunfighter town....nothing short of a windfall. For that reason only, I'd love to see another one....perhaps based more on Alvira Earps (Virgil's fiery Irish wife, written by Frank Waters)..."The Earps of Tombstone"....
George, reenactment actor/director....Tombstone Arizona
jvc2....I really appreciated your comments...and agreed.
A few more negative's you didn't mention.
Do you suppose Dakota Fanning might have been totally confused with her role?
She alternated between the insightful & clever sister/daughter, and the idiot that screamed & ran away at the worst possible moment, during the entire movie.
Didn't ANYONE wonder why a father with even a half-a-brain-cell in his body, would, during an alien attack on earth, would run the gauntlet between New York & Boston...just so his daughter & ex-wife could cry on each others shoulders ?
Yup, I must admit I was entertained, but not by the great script/directing/realism.....it was a pathetic comedy.
George Williams
A few more negative's you didn't mention.
Do you suppose Dakota Fanning might have been totally confused with her role?
She alternated between the insightful & clever sister/daughter, and the idiot that screamed & ran away at the worst possible moment, during the entire movie.
Didn't ANYONE wonder why a father with even a half-a-brain-cell in his body, would, during an alien attack on earth, would run the gauntlet between New York & Boston...just so his daughter & ex-wife could cry on each others shoulders ?
Yup, I must admit I was entertained, but not by the great script/directing/realism.....it was a pathetic comedy.
George Williams