Frontier Marshal (1934)

Directed by

Lewis Seiler

Genre

Western film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 06m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A no-nonsense lawman takes on outlaws in a small Western town. He deals with threats and works to keep order. The story is based on a fictionalized biography of Wyatt Earp, though the character's name was changed due to a lawsuit.

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What happens

Frontier Marshal is a 1934 American Pre-Code Western film directed by Lewis Seiler and starring George O'Brien. Produced by Fox Film and Sol M. Wurtzel, the film is the first based on Stuart N. Lake's enormously popular but largely fictitious "biography" of Wyatt Earp, Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal. A second version of the film, also produced by Wurtzel, was made in 1939, and a third interpretation by John Ford entitled My Darling Clementine was released in 1946. He supposedly wrote the book with Earp's input, and it portrays Earp as a fearless lawman. But before the first movie was released, his widow Josephine Earp sued Fox Film Corporation for $50,000 in an attempt to keep them from making the film. She said it was an "unauthorized portrayal" of Wyatt Earp. She succeeded in getting Earp's name completely excised from the movie. His character was renamed "Michael Wyatt," and the movie was released as Frontier Marshal. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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