Director: John Ford

Writers: Samuel G. Engel; Sam Hellman; Winston Miller

Based on a book: Wyatt Earp, Frontier Marshal by Stuart N. Lake

Keywords: Western

The Earp brothers are driving cattle through Tombstone when their youngest, James, is murdered and their cattle stolen. Wyatt and his brother clean up the lawless town, defeating the Clantons in this the finest telling of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Roger Ebert calls this Ford's best effort; it is certainly in the top rank of westerns. But it is a highly romanticized version in which numerous key details are invented -- James actually lived to 1926. Entered 1991 into the National Film Registry.

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Ward Bond	Actor	9-Apr-1903	5-Nov-1960	Wagon Train
Walter Brennan	Actor	25-Jul-1894	21-Sep-1974	Three Oscars for Best Supporting Actor
Linda Darnell	Actor	16-Oct-1923	10-Apr-1965	Star Dust
Jane Darwell	Actor	15-Oct-1879	13-Aug-1967	The bird woman in Mary Poppins
Henry Fonda	Actor	16-May-1905	12-Aug-1982	12 Angry Men
Tim Holt	Actor	5-Feb-1918	15-Feb-1973	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
John Ireland	Actor	30-Jan-1914	21-Mar-1992	All the King's Men
J. Farrell MacDonald	Actor	14-Apr-1875	2-Aug-1952	My Darling Clementine
Victor Mature	Actor	29-Jan-1913	4-Aug-1999	Samson and Delilah
Alan Mowbray	Actor	18-Aug-1896	25-Mar-1969	Founding member, Screen Actors Guild
Russell Simpson	Actor	17-Jun-1880	12-Dec-1959	The Grapes of Wrath
Grant Withers	Actor	17-Jan-1904	27-Mar-1959	American character actor

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