Trivia and Quotes
Quotes
 Wyatt Earp: Sure is a hard town for a fella to have a quiet game o` poker in. [At his brother`s grave]
Wyatt Earp: 1864, 1882. 18 years. You didn`t get much of a chance did you James? I wrote to Pa and Cory Sue. They`re gonna be all busted up over it. Cory Sue`s young, but Pa. I guess he`ll never get over it. I`ll be comin` out to see you regular James. So will Morg and Virg. I`m gonna be around here for a while. Can`t tell. Maybe when we leave this country young kids like you will be able to grow up and live safe.
Wyatt Earp: Mac, you ever been in love?
Mac: No, I`ve been a bartender all me life.
Old Man Clanton: When ya pull a gun, kill a man.
Clementine Carter: I should think that if nothing else, you`d at least be flattered to have a girl chase you.
Wyatt Earp: I`ve heard a lot about you, too, Doc. You left your mark around in Deadwood, Denver and places. In fact, a man could almost follow your trail goin` from graveyard to graveyard.
Doc Holliday: There`s one here, too... the biggest graveyard west of the Rockies. Marshals and I usually get along much better when we understand that right away.
Wyatt Earp: Sure is rough-looking country. Ain`t no cow country. Mighty different where I come from. What do they call this place?
Old Man Clanton: Just over the rise there. Big town... called Tombstone.
[Chihuahua has just been seriously wounded]
Wyatt Earp: Mac, you and Buck go down and clean up the saloon. Put a couple of tables together and put some lights around `em. Doc, you`re going to operate.
Clementine Carter: I love your town in the morning, Marshal. The air is so clean and clear... the scent of the desert flower.
Wyatt Earp: That`s me... barber.
[after the shoot-out at the O.K. Corral, Wyatt refuses to shoot Old Man Clanton]
Old Man Clanton: My boys... Ike! Sam! Phin! Billy!
Wyatt Earp: They`re dead. I ain`t gonna kill you. I hope you live a hundred years... so you`ll feel just a little what my pa`s gonna feel. Now get out of town - start wandering!
[as Wyatt is leaving the hotel after taking the marshall`s job, he meets Clanton and his sons]
Wyatt Earp: I`m the fella with the trail herd, remember?
Old Man Clanton: Oh, sure, I remember you.
Wyatt Earp: You was right. I didn`t get very far with `em. They was rustled this evening.
Old Man Clanton: That so? Well, that`s too bad.
[Wyatt starts out the door]
Old Man Clanton: I guess you`ll be headin` for California, huh?
Wyatt Earp: No, I figured on stickin` around awhile. Got myself a job.
Old Man Clanton: Cowpunching?
Wyatt Earp: Marshallin`.
Old Man Clanton: Marshallin`? In Tombstone?
[laughs]
Old Man Clanton: Well... good luck to ya, Mister...?
Wyatt Earp: Earp. Wyatt Earp.
[last lines]
Wyatt Earp: Ma`am, I sure like that name... Clementine.
Old Man Clanton: Wide-awake, wide-open town, Tombstone. You can get anything you want there.
Trivia
This film was selected to the National Film Registry, Library of Congress, in 1991.
On 28 April 1947 Henry Fonda and Cathy Downs starred in a live radio version of this film, broadcast on the Lux Radio Theatre.
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# Actress Jeanne Crain was scheduled to play Clementine. Studio head Darryl F. Zanuck ruled against her, writing in a memo that the part was so small, Crain fans might be disappointed by not seeing her in more scenes. That`s how contract player Cathy Downs got the part instead.
Henry Fonda`s first production after returning from U.S. Navy service in World War II.
Tombstone, Arizona, is not located in Monument Valley. John Ford "placed" it there because Monument Valley is where he liked to film his Westerns.
Director John Ford, who in his youth had known the real Wyatt Earp, claimed the way the OK Corral gunfight was staged in this film was the way it was explained to him by Earp himself, with a few exceptions.
An alternate "preview" version of this film exists. In the 1970s, 20th Century Fox donated some film to the UCLA Film Archives. In 1994, it was discovered that the UCLA print was different from the one being shown on TV. It was about 8 minutes longer with minor variations throughout and a slightly different ending. Both this archival 103 or 104 minute version and the 97 minute release version are included on the Fox DVD released on January 6, 2004.
Reportedly, Lloyd Bacon worked uncredited on this film with Darryl F. Zanuck re-editing this film in deference to preview comment cards.
According to Henry Fonda in 1976 Darryl F. Zanuck`s first choice for Doc Holliday was James Stewart but he was overruled by John Ford who didn`t believe Stewart could do the part.
Vincent Price was considered for the role of Doc Holliday.
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Victor Mature
(as Dr. John `Doc` Holliday)
with Linda Darnell
(as Chihuahua)
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