Hour of the Gun
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| Directed by | John Sturges |
| Produced by | John Sturges Mirisch-Kappa (Production company) |
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Edward Anhalt Douglas D. Martin's novel: Tombstone's Epitaph |
| Starring |
James Garner Jason Robards Robert Ryan |
| Music by | Jerry Goldsmith |
| Cinematography | Lucien Ballard, ASC |
| Edited by | Ferris Webster |
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| Distributed by | United Artists (1967, original) MGM (2005, DVD) |
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100 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1,800,000 (estimated) |
| Box office | $2 million |
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 movie was directed by John Sturges.
The picture is based on the non-fiction book Tombstone's Epitaph by Douglas D. Martin, with a screenplay by Edward Anhalt. This film attempts more historical accuracy than most motion picture accounts of the events, in that Ike Clanton is shown, correctly, to have survived the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, whereas previous films had him killed at the gunfight. The movie goes on to explore what happened after the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral; Sturges had also directed a film called Gunfight at the O.K. Corral a decade earlier starring Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas.
Outnumbered but determined, Wyatt Earp (James Garner), his brothers Virgil (Frank Converse) and Morgan (Sam Melville) and ally Doc Holliday (Jason Robards) confront and clearly get the best of the Ike Clanton gang in a violent shootout at the O.K. Corral in the Arizona town of Tombstone.
Ike (Robert Ryan), a rustler, conspires to have the Earps charged with murder and tried in a court of law. When they are cleared, Virgil runs for Tombstone City Sheriff, but is ambushed and maimed by some of Clanton's hired guns. Morgan elects to take the job in his brother's place, but, unlike his brother, he is killed.
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