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Doc
For the past 90 years these three people have been heroes. Until now!
Doc Holliday travels to Tombstone, Ariz., with prostitute Katie Elder. Although the trip is difficult because Doc is ill with tuberculosis, they eventually reach their destination, where Holliday is reunited with his old friend Marshal Wyatt Earp, who has been clashing with the Clanton gang. Tensions between Earp and the Clantons rise until their infamous final showdown brings it to a head.
- Original title
- Doc
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US
- Budget
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Dec 17, 2023 · via TMDB
Before the duelling biopics of "Tombstone" and "Wyatt Earp" in the 1990's, this 1971 effort had already decided to set the record straight about John "Doc" Holliday, Wyatt Earp's best friend and participant in the gunfight at the OK Corral. Just over an hour and a half, this film skips a lot of the epic western cliches and goes right into its meaty story. Doc Holliday (Stacy Keach) buys prostitute Katie Elder (Faye Dunaway) from local bad boy Ike Clanton (Michael Witney), and takes her to Tombstone, Arizona. He meets up with his best friend Wyatt Earp (Harris Yulin). Earp has political aspirations in the territory, and wants to control the law while Holliday would control the gambling. Earp and Holliday begin drifting apart, both over Elder and law enforcement, but become friends again in time for the climactic shootout in the infamous corral, resulting in the deaths of some major characters. A few scenes are played a little too quietly, and move a little too slowly. The real success here is with the lead actors, professionals all. Keach is excellent as a Doc Holliday we have never seen before. His physical moves are smooth and suave, like a professional gambler should be, and Keach takes us along on an acting job that looks effortless on his part. Dunaway is Katie Elder, the lifelong prostitute who finds it hard to change herself just to please everyone else's idea of what a couple should be. Dunaway is unglamorous, and never trips into the "hooker with a heart of gold" stereotype. Yulin, who is better known as a character actor, is great as Wyatt Earp. He is mean, delivering threatening lines with menace, and also not a clearcut hero. His speech to the crowd after the gunfight, as he stands near a dead body and renews his promise to clean up Tombstone, is great. Aside from a couple of slow spots and spotty editing, "Doc" is a terrific and underrated western that deserves a cult audience. I highly recommend it.
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Stacy Keach
Doc Holliday
Faye Dunaway
Katie Elder
Harris Yulin
Wyatt Earp
Michael Witney
Ike Clanton
Denver John Collins
The Kid
Richard McKenzie
John Behan
Penelope Allen
Mattie Earp
James Greene
Frank McLowery
Antonia Rey
Concha, Saloon Whore
Marshall Efron
Mexican Bartender
Bruce M. Fischer
Billy Clanton
Luis Barboo
(uncredited)
Dan van Husen
Clanton Cowboy (uncredited)
Gerald Hirschfeld
Director of Photography
Frank Perry
Director
Alan Heim
Editor
Marion Dougherty
Casting
Frank Perry
Producer
Tom Pevsner
Production Manager
Jimmy Webb
Conductor
Jimmy Webb
Music
Jimmy Webb
Original Music Composer
Richard Marks
Sound Editor
Pete Hamill
Screenplay
Cangaceiros Fora de Tempo 2 - A Fuga
The Magic Trick
War on the Plains
No Country for Old Men
A Fistful of Dollars
Dust to Dust
The Hateful Eight
High Noon
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
They Call Me Trinity
My Darling Clementine
The Magnificent Seven
The Great Silence
Trinity Is Still My Name
A Bullet in the Arse
High Plains Drifter
Open Range
Sheriff of Tombstone
Pale Rider
The Good, the Bad, the Weird
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Zagor
Seven By Nine
Bullets for Bandits
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Two Mules for Sister Sara
Hidalgo
Hang 'em High
Silverado
Quigley Down Under
Chisum
Young Guns
The Harder They Fall
Tombstone Rashomon
The Quick and the Dead
Ace High
Young Guns II
Bill Tilghman and the Outlaws
Flaming Star
Shanghai Noon
Gunless
Cat Ballou
The Shooting
Guns of the Timberland
The Lonely Man
The Legend of Zorro
Tickle Me
The Last of the Duanes
Duel at Sundown
The Specialists
Sunset
Cimarron
Heaven with a Gun
The Outlaw
Wild Wild West
Wagons East!
The Dying Cowboy
The Marshal of Madrid
Ride By Night
Rio Bravo
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
High Noon
The Wild Bunch
Tombstone
The Gunfighter
El Dorado
High Plains Drifter
Blazing Saddles
Open Range
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
Pale Rider
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Silverado
News of the World
Jubal
Day of the Outlaw
The Fastest Gun Alive
Wyatt Earp
7 Men from Now
Heaven's Gate
The Quick and the Dead
Chato's Land
The Magnificent Seven
Angel and the Badman
Joe Kidd
Shoot Out
Rooster Cogburn
Tom Horn
The Unholy Trinity
The Train Robbers
Wichita
The Ballad of Lefty Brown
Hannie Caulder
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Aug 1, 1971
