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Film · 1946 · Western
My Darling Clementine
Directed by John Ford
1946
★ 6.3 editorial score
Ford claimed Wyatt Earp himself described the gunfight to him: what stays with people is not the shootout but a church dance on a bare wooden floor under an unfinished roof.
“When it comes to a movie this gloriously mythic, there’s no point in getting hung up on accuracy. “Print the legend,” as someone says in a later John Ford picture, and that’s precisely what Ford does here from the moment Wyatt Earp (Henry Fonda) arrives in Tombstone and proceeds to singlehandedly disarm a drunken Native American who’s terrorized the current marshal into resigning his post.”
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