Tuesday, March 26, 2013

My Darling Clementine (1946)

Second or third viewing (last one: March 13, 1988; an uncertain previous one may have happened between 1983 and 1986).

Wyatt Earp and his brothers are taking their cattle to California and pass through a desertic mining town called Tombstone, where his brother James is murdered and his cattle is stolen. He and his other brothers decide to stay, and Wyatt accepts the job of town marshal, in the hopes of finding his brother's killers, whom he strongly suspects to be the Clantons. He befriends Doc Holliday, a Tombstone resident, who used to be a medical doctor and now is a kind of gunfighter.

Very touching Western, virtuosically directed, and with many memorable scenes and sequences.

Rating: 77 (unchanged)

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