Tombstone
December 25, 1993 in theaters
Legendary lawman Wyatt Earp arrives in Tombstone, Arizona hoping for a quiet retirement, but finds the town under the thumb of a ruthless outlaw gang called the Cowboys. The 1993 Western follows the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral and its violent aftermath through an ensemble built around Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and the Earp brothers.
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"You tell 'em I'm coming — and hell's coming with me, you hear?"
DID YOU KNOW?
The film was shot on location in Arizona, with Mescal and Old Tucson Studios serving as primary locations.
THE VERDICT
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Tombstone is the kind of Western that works because it commits to the ensemble rather than centering everything on a single hero — Kurt Russell's Wyatt Earp is steady and commanding, but the film gives Sam Elliott, Bill Paxton, Michael Biehn, and Powers Boothe real room to breathe. Val Kilmer's Doc Holliday is the electric center of gravity that every scene tilts toward, but the film earns that by surrounding him with characters worth tilting toward. It has been rewatched for thirty years because nearly every scene has a memorable line, a memorable image, or both. One of the defining modern Westerns of its generation.
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