Sturges has made some good ones ("Gunfight," "Bad Day at Black Rock," "The Magnificent Seven"), and "Hour of the Gun" belongs in the same company but slightly lower on the guest list. With Clanton weakened, wealthy interests in Tombstone step forward to end the dispute, buying off the men supporting Clanton, which leads him to hide out in Mexico. People disappear every year out in the Canadian wilderness - however, this year is different. Corral, Sturges was disappointed with that film. Directed by John Sturges. The film was also made available in the digital format. The husband of the captured woman enlists the help of his neighbor to find the Apaches that seized his family; not knowing his neighbor has unknown reasons of his own for helping him. In Hour of the Gun, Clanton not only survives the gunfight, but is a major antagonist thereafter. Corral, and the gunfight's aftermath in and around Tombstone, Arizona, starring James Garner as Earp, Jason Robards as Holliday, and Robert Ryan as Clanton. There's a good story buried somewhere in this melee, surrounded by such maddening excess that you want to take some home and feed it to undernourished stray movies. Corral itself). agents descends to investigate, the team's brilliant ... See full summary ». Corral in the Arizona town of Tombstone. [6], Bruce Eder, at AllMovie, calls Garner's portrayal of Earp as "taciturn, emotionally repressed, deeply troubled and torn", but criticizes Edward Anhalt's script as being too strict to historical facts and confining the actors, especially Garner. Database catalogs movie firearms - L.A. Times LA Times: imfdb.org the Last Word on Guns in Movies - The Truth About Guns Vegas Gun Ranges Target Thrill-seeking Tourists With Ever Bigger Weapons - The Guardian - Forum View production, box office, & company info. To entice Earp to remain in Tombstone, they tell him they are seeking an appointment for him as Chief U.S. Hour of the Gun is a 1967 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. Bruce Willis, in his second theatrical film, portrays Tom Mix. Don’t worry, it won’t take long. Title: In Hour of the Gun Ike Clanton is shown, correctly, to have survived the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, whereas previous films had him killed at the gunfight. For Predator (bottom photo), a steel Y-frame was added to the gun so a rear pistol grip could be mounted in it, along with the forend from an M60 machine gun, so it could be held with the non-trigger hand. The film's music is composed by Jerry Goldsmith. "The Way of the Gun" is a wildly ambitious, heedlessly overplotted post-Tarantino bloodfest--the kind of movie that needs its own doggie bag. In 1885 New Mexico, a frontier medicine woman forms an uneasy alliance with her estranged father when her daughter is kidnapped by an Apache brujo. Holliday glances to the countryside as his friend rides away and then resumes his poker game with his sanitarium health aide. With James Garner, Jason Robards, Robert Ryan, Albert Salmi. [8], "Hour of the Gun (1967) - John Sturges | Review", "Hour of the Gun (1967) - John Sturges | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related", "Hour of the Gun (1967) - Full Cast & Crew", "Hour of the Gun (1967) - Filming & Production", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hour_of_the_Gun&oldid=1018660954, Western (genre) films based on actual events, Wikipedia articles with WorldCat-VIAF identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 19 April 2021, at 06:27. 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