Fiction
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[United States] : The Criterion Collection
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2 videodiscs (97 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
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Criterion collection #732
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Wyatt Earp is the sturdy lawman who sets about the task of shaping up the disorderly Arizona town of Tombstone, with the help of the boozy, tubercular gambler and gunman Doc Holliday. Though initially at cross-purposes, the pair ultimately team up to confront the violent Clanton gang
Based on a book by Stuart N. Lake
DVD release of the 1946 motion picture
Special features: New audio commentary featuring John Ford biographer Joseph McBride ; New interview with western historian Andrew C. Isenberg about the real Wyatt Earp ; Comparison of the two versions by film preservationist Robert Gitt ; New video essay by Ford scholar Tag Gallagher ; Bandit's wager, a 1916 silent western short costarring Ford and directed by his brother, Francis Ford, featuring new music composed and performed by Donald Sosin ; NBC television reports from 1963 and 1975 about the history of Tombstone and Monument Valley ; Lux Radio Theatre adaptation from 1947 starring Henry Fonda and Cathy Downs ; trailer ; an essay by critic David Jenkins
Director of photography, Joseph MacDonald ; editor, Dorothy Spencer ; music, Cyril Mockridge
Henry Fonda, Linda Darnell, Victor Mature, Walter Brennan
MPAA rating: Not rated
DVD ; fullscreen (1.33:1) presentation ; Dolby digital mono
Closed-captioned