My Darling Clementine (1946)

Directed by

John Ford

Genre

drama film, Western film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 32m

Rated

12

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 487 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Wyatt Earp arrives in a small town and becomes its marshal. He faces a corrupt family and works with the sickly Doc Holliday. This sets the stage for the famous gunfight at the O.K. Corral.

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What happens

My Darling Clementine is a 1946 American Western film directed by John Ford and starring Henry Fonda as Wyatt Earp during the period leading up to the gunfight at the O.K. Corral. The ensemble cast also features Victor Mature (as Doc Holliday), Linda Darnell, Walter Brennan, Tim Holt, Cathy Downs and Ward Bond. The title of the movie is borrowed from the theme song "Oh My Darling, Clementine", sung in parts over the opening and closing credits. The screenplay is based on the biography Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal by Stuart Lake, as were two earlier movies, both titled Frontier Marshal (released in 1934 and 1939, respectively). My Darling Clementine is regarded by many critics as one of the greatest Western films ever made. In 1991, the film was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. It was among the third annual group of 25 films named to the registry. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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