TOMBSTONE......!

[Foothills Drifter]

Howdy......
TOMBSTONE starts in 10 minutes on the Western Channel!!! 

Good shootin......
Vern...

[Foothills Drifter]

IT"S SHOW TIME 

Good shootin......
Vern...

[Qball]

 
I just watched ElDorado with the Duke.
BANG BANG BANG

[Foothills Drifter]

Howdy......
   

Good shootin......
Vern...

[Foothills Drifter]

Howdy......
The pop corn just got done.....    

Good shootin......
Vern...

[Qball]

Great fill me up

[The Arapaho Kid]

I wonder if they are going to add the "Hollywood Touch"to this?  In several of the movies I've seen about the OK Corral incident...that gunfight went on way longer than the real one.  Way more bullets flew than the real battle.  From what I understand...the actual gunfight lasted about 90 seconds and only 18 or 19 rounds were fired.  Hollywood "padded" this up quite a bit.

[Foothills Drifter]

Howdy......
TOMBSTONE is over  You can never see this movie too maney times)
Arapaho Kid...the 'gunfight' was longer than the original.....it makes for a great show.

Good shootin......
Vern...
PS see again tonight at 8:00PM PST 

[Marshal Will Wingam]

I also suspect that the real event seemed a lot longer to the participants, too. I don't mind, Hollywood can take a little license on that because in real life when yer duckin' and shootin' time really slows down. Things seem much longer that they actually do.

[Steel Horse Bailey]

Not to mention the slow motion that Hollyweird loves so much!

[RowdyBill]

I like the movie "Tombstone" more each time I see it.  I can even ignore the sappy romance because it's overshadowed by the stronger scenes.

I'm still waiting, however, for some film to show the gunfight as it actually happened.  Either there's too many Clanton's or the wrong people get killed or something.  Actual fight, as I've read it,was really 4 armed (Earps, Holliday) against 4 who were half-armed (just Frank McClaury and Billy Clanton had guns on them).  Tom McClaury tried to make it to a rifle in a scabbard, but didn't quite get there.  Ike flaked out, so he didn't even count.  What's really interesting is I've read that Holliday and the Earps all agreed beforehand to aim for Frank McClaury as he was noted as the best shot among the opposition.  Hehe, that could be a cool dialogue scene to have in a film.

Someday, Hollywood will get it right.

[Snake-Bit Slim]

I recently purchased the special edition DVD of Tombstone...It has 2 disks...1 is the original movie with 10 minutes of extra footage. The other DVD is all behind the scenes interviews, and the making of the movie, along with some historical data and even a faro game you can play on your PC.

When they talk of the weapons used by the characters...They mentioned that the "real" Johnny Ringo and "Doc" used nickel plated revolvers, with white grips.

Is that true...

Is there a factual book out there that shows the actual guns used by the gunfighters of the old west ?

Thanks !

[Capt, Woodrow F. Call]

Howdy

I'm not shure, but dont The Old West Book-series tell the story ( series of 25 books, one of the book is called The Gunfigthers)




BR

Capt Call.

[Chance]

Never really understood all the fuss about this movie. To me it was an ordinary Western with an all too familiar storyline and too many fancy clothes and fancy pistols.

[Tricky Trina]

LOVE Encore Western channel!

[The Elderly Kid]

Loved the movie, but one scene rang false to me. I don't know if anyone has commented on it, so I will. In the stormy night sequence where Virgil gets ambushed, Wyatt and Morgan are in the saloon and Wyatt is eating Chinese food with chopsticks. No way. In the 19th century Americans were convinced that the Chinese ate utterly disgusting food. In one period caricature, an Indian is shown recoiling in horror from what's in a Chinese man's bowl, and white people thought Indians would eat anything. Even Mark Twain, who was otherwise favorable toward the Chinese, subscribed to this belief.This prejudice persisted until it became fashionable to go slumming in Chinatown and people began to sample the food in Chinese restaurants and discovered that it was delicious. As for eating with chopsticks, it was considered utterly barbaric and proof of Chinese racial inferiority. No kidding. A politician of the time enumerating the reasons why the Chinese should be excluded from the US cried out: "Sir, they eat rice! And, sir, they eat it with sticks!" So, no Chinese takeout for Wyatt in '81.