Tombstone Torrent

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Tombstone Torrent

Wyatt Earp along with his brothers and their wives move to Tombstone to start a new life putting his life as a lawman and gunslinger behind him. Also coming to Tombstone is Wyatt's good friend, Doc Holliday. However, it turns out that "The Cowboys", a group of men, among whose members include The Clantons, pretty much act as if they are above the law. Wyatt would be asked to be Marshall but rejects the offer but his brother, Virgil who can't stomach the violence around him accepts the job over Wyatt's objections. Eventually a confrontation between them and The Cowboys is going to happen. And who will survive?
A successful lawman's plans to retire anonymously in Tombstone, Arizona, are disrupted by the kind of outlaws he was famous for eliminating.
"Tombstone" deals with the adventures of Wyatt Earp and his brothers covering a two and one half year period. It starts with Wyatt (Kurt Russell) and his two brothers (Sam Elliott and Bill Paxton) arriving in Tombstone to seek their fortune. Subsequent events put badges back on the Earps and lead to the infamous gunfight at the OK Corral. The last third of the film deals with Wyatt's revenge on the baddies, known as "The Cowboys". Director George P. Cosmatos gives us a visually stunning film. From the spectacular sunsets/sunrises to the real lightning flashes and authentic settings and costumes. Most of the male actors are hidden under real beards and handle bar moustaches they grew which were common at the time of the story. The performances are excellent all around. Russell makes an excellent Wyatt. The relationship between Wyatt his brothers and Doc Holiday (Val Kilmer) are developed in detail. Kilmer plays Holiday as a former southern aristocrat complete with accent and mannerisms. Joanna Pacula plays his girlfriend. Dana Wheeler-Nicholson is good as Wyatt's drug addicted first wife and Dana Delaney looks stunning as the "other woman". Heading up the villains are Powers Boothe as Curly Bill, Michael Biehn as Ringo and Stephen Lang and Thomas Haden Church as the Clantons. Wyatt Earp's grandson Wyatt Earp III plays Billy Claiborne. Veteran western performer Harry Carey Jr. does a nice turn as the town marshal and Buck Taylor (of "Gunsmoke" fame) plays one of Wyatt's marshals. Charlton Heston puts in a cameo as a rancher and look for Billy Bob Thornton as a saloon bully early in the film. "Tombstone" ranks in my opinion, as the best and most accurate version of the Wyatt Earp saga ever filmed. Try and catch the director's cut (at 134 minutes) which restores many of the cut sequences from the original version and serves to provide further clarification to the development of the characters and their relationships with one another.
Somewhat Muddled and Disjointed this is yet Another Version of "The Legend of Wyatt Earp" and Friends. It is a Heckuva Lotta Fun with its High-Styled Western Fashion and an Unending Parade of Familiar Faces. The Good-Guy and Bad-Guy GQ Stuff is Fascinating to Watch and the Sets and Compositions are Stunning. But with all the Eye-Candy and a Show-Stealing Performance from Val Kilmer the Movie in its Final Third is so All Over the Place that it Never Really Settles. There are a lot of Mustaches and Senseless Killings, Head-Banging and some Modern Female Types Thrown in for, Who Knows? Maybe Political Correctness. But this could have been a Classic. A Modern Macho Masterpiece. But Alas, it Ends Up being Nothing More than a Good Looking and Entertaining Film that seems Bloated but Beautiful. Above Average and Audacious it Pushes some Boundaries but Never seems quite Comfortable with Itself or Sure of What it is Trying to Say, other than, "It's going to be a hot time in the old town tonight.". Welcome to Tombstone.
Highly stylized fashion-wise but awkwardly unfocused in its plotlines, it aims for the western iconography of Sam Peckinpah and Sergio Leone but never gets past its own directorial hurdles.
John Henry "Doc" Holliday received a Degree of Dental Surgery from the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery (now part of the University of Pennsylvania) in 1872 at the age of 20. Doc Holliday had dental offices in Atlanta, Dallas, and often practiced less formally on the side in his travels, most notably in Dodge City where he began his association with Wyatt Earp. He stopped practicing dentistry after his tuberculosis and resultant coughing worsened. Also it would not have been practical for a man suffering from tuberculosis to be in such close contact with people, whos mouths were wide open only inches from his, a sure way of enabling the disease to spread. a5c7b9f00b

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