Tonight with Friends: Kirk Douglas + Burt Lancaster for an absolute (re)discovery of the legendary western!

Wyatt Earp arrives at Fort Griffin to find Ike Clanton, but the local sheriff lets him escape. To find his trail, Earp turns to a turbulent poker player, Doc Holliday. The latter is in trouble with the population and really needs to escape. Reluctantly, Earp helps her and begins an unlikely friendship that leads them to take care of Clanton together.

You’ll no doubt recognize the classic western score at OK Corral, directed by John Sturges and currently available on Paramount+. The main roles in the film are played by Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas, who became friends on the set, then traveled together several times and even created their own production company.

Settling Scores at the OK Corral recounts—very beautifully and as its name suggests—a shootout that actually took place in 1881 in Tombstone, Arizona. The Earp brothers and Doc Holliday took on the Clanton and McClory families, as well as a man named Billy Claiborne. This event is the “climax” of the movie.

But if we still watch and appreciate the score at the OK Corral, it’s for the face-off between two legendary Hollywood actors and Kirk Douglas’ excellent performance as Doc Holliday, who plays a wonderfully injured dandy. A more monolithic Lancaster with gritted teeth. Dueling and fighting aside, the Doctor’s relationship with Kate (the excellent Joe Van Fleet) is worth the journey alone.

The film was a huge success and received two Oscar nominations: Best Sound and Best Editing.

Beware of errors in VF

The French dubbing of the film is quite remarkable in terms of sound, but the text decides to replace Earp’s name with “Thorpe”, completely changing the historical aspect of the feature film and its adaptation of the famous OK Corral news story.

The hero’s name has also been changed: Wyatt becomes Edward. Hence, Edward Thorpe instead of Wyatt Earp. White brothers Morgan and Virgil Earp will become Paul and Vincent Thorpe. “it was about time”we can say “still a shame”We could answer.