Hour of the Gun (1967)
November 1, 1967Release Date
Hour of the Gun (1967)
November 1, 1967Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
James Garner
Marshal Wyatt Earp
Jason Robards
Doc Holliday
Robert Ryan
Ike Clanton
Albert Salmi
Octavius Roy
Charles Aidman
Horace Sullivan
Steve Ihnat
Andy Warshaw
Michael Tolan
Pete Spence
William Windom
Texas Jack Vermillion
Lonny Chapman
Turkey Creek Johnson
Larry Gates
John P. Clum
William Schallert
Judge Herman Spicer
Karl Swenson
Dr. Charles Goodfellow
Monte Markham
Tucson Sheriff Sherman McMasters
Jon Voight
Curly Bill Brocius
Bill Fletcher
Jimmy Bryan
Austin Willis
Anson Safford
Richard Bull
Thomas Fitch
Sam Melville
Morgan Earp
Frank Converse
Virgil Earp
Robert Phillips
Frank Stilwell
Jorge Russek
Deputy Latigo
Edward Anhalt
Writer
John Sturges
Director / Producer
Alfred Ybarra
Art Direction
Jerry Goldsmith
Original Music Composer
Lucien Ballard
Director of Photography
Ferris Webster
Editor
Rafael Suárez
Set Decoration
Lynn Stalmaster
Casting
Allen K. Wood
Production Supervisor
Thomas J. Schmidt
Assistant Director
John Franco
Script Supervisor
Media.
Details.
Release DateNovember 1, 1967
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 40m
Content RatingNR
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Hour of the Gun is a 1967 Western film depicting Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday during their 1881 battles against Ike Clanton and his brothers in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, and the gunfight's aftermath in and around Tombstone, Arizona, starring James Garner as Earp, Jason Robards as Holliday, and Robert Ryan as Clanton. The film was directed by John Sturges.
Sturges had previously directed a highly fictionalized version of the same events in the film Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957) starring Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas, but in Hour of the Gun he strove for more historical accuracy than in most previous screen depictions of Earp's adventures. The film is based on the non-fiction book Tombstone's Epitaph by Douglas D. Martin, with a screenplay by Edward Anhalt.
During the film's opening title and credits sequence, an onscreen title appears last: "This picture is based on Fact. This is the way it happened." Hour of the Gun is in fact more accurate than its predecessors in many ways. For instance, it correctly shows Ike Clanton surviving the O.K. Corral shoot-out, whereas previous films had shown him being one of its fatalities.
However, not everything in the film hews strictly to fact. It has Ike Clanton ultimately being killed by Wyatt Earp, whereas Clanton actually died in an 1887 duel with a constable named Jonas Brighton. In addition, Hour of the Gun portrays Doc Holliday as a graying Civil War veteran much older than the Earp brothers, though in fact he was younger than most of them and was too young to have served in that conflict. The death of Curly Bill Brocious is inaccurately portrayed as a street shootout between Brocius and two others vs. Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday. Furthermore, the opening depicts the gunfight as happening at the OK Corral, whereas it actually happened at a nearby photography studio.