Episode 65, Part 2: Tombstone, the Best Wyatt Earp Movie, Starring Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday and Kurt Russell as Wyatt Earp!

PART 2 of the most epic and definitive discussion of the greatest movie ever made: 1993’s Tombstone, a film we loved so much that we could not shut up about it and had to make our first two-parter. 

There’s more talk about costumes and sets and history, but also a LOT more talk about the perfection of Val Kilmer, the one way America could be made great again (over-the-counter laudanum), continued hatred of 1994’s Wyatt Earp (known as “Boring Tombstone”),  what is not Charlton Heston’s final acting role. 

This movie is perfect and that is settled law. 

Tombstone stars Kurt Riussell as Wyatt Earp, Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday, Sam Elliott as Virgil Earp, Bill Paxton as Morgan Earp, Powers Boothe as Curly Bill Brocius, Michael Biehn as Johnny Ringo, Charlton Heston as Henry Hooker, Jason Priestley as Billy Breckinridge, 

Jon Tenney as Behan, Stephen Lang as Ike Clanton, Thomas Haden Church as Billy Clanton, 

Dana Delany as Josephine Marcus, Paula Malcomson as Allie Earp, Lisa Collins as Louisa Earp, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson as Mattie Earp, Joanna Pacula as Kate, Michael Rooker as Sherman McMasters, and Harry Carey Jr. as Marshal Fred White.

Sources used in the episode include…

Tombstone: The Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday, and the Vendetta Ride from Hell

By Tom Clavin

The Last Gunfight : The Real Story of the Shootout at the O.K. Corral—and How it Changed the American West

By Jeff Guinn

Lady at the O.K. Corral : The True Story of Josephine Marcus Earp

by Ann Kirschner

Ride the Devil's Herd : Wyatt Earp's Epic Battle Against the West's Biggest Outlaw Gang

By John Boessenecker

The Making of Tombstone by John Farkis, and a note on John Farkis who is life goals—his bio: “Retired automotive executive John Farkis, is an historian and lifelong fan of the cinema.” He’s basically like, I am a fan of this movie and I am going to write a book and he DID. 

Also a podcast that Sara would recommend highly, It was a Shit Show, which did an episode about the behind of the scenes of this film, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCN_JF1kN-g 

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