Hour of the Gun

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Hour of the Gun is a 1967 American Western film depicting Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday during their 1881 battles against Ike Clanton and his brothers in the gunfight at the O.K. Corral, and the gunfight's aftermath in and around Tombstone, Arizona. It stars James Garner as Earp, Jason Robards as Holliday, and Robert Ryan as Clanton. The film was directed by John Sturges. Sturges had previously directed a highly fictionalized version of the same events in the film Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957) starring Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas, but in Hour of the Gun, he strove for more historical accuracy than in most previous screen depictions of Earp's adventures. The film is based on the nonfiction book Tombstone's Epitaph by Douglas D. Martin, with a screenplay by Edward Anhalt. During the film's opening title and credits sequence, an onscreen title appears last: "This picture is based on Fact. This is the way it happened." Hour of the Gun is, in fact, more accurate than its predecessors...

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