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See production notesIn 1882 (a year after the actual gunfight at the O.K. Corral on October 26, 1881), Wyatt, Morgan, Virgil, and James Earp are driving cattle to California when they encounter Old Man Clanton and his sons. Clanton offers to buy their herd, but they curtly refuse to sell. When the Earps learn about the nearby boom town of Tombstone, the older brothers ride in, leaving the youngest, James, as watchman. The threesome soon learns that Tombstone is a lawless town without a marshal. Wyatt proves the only man in the town willing to face a drunken Indian shooting at the townspeople. When the brothers return to their camp, they find their cattle rustled and James murdered. Wyatt returns to Tombstone. Seeking to avenge James's murder, he takes the open position of town marshal and encounters the hot-tempered Doc Holliday and scurrilous Clanton gang several times. During this time, Clementine Carter, Doc's former love interest from his hometown of Boston, arrives after a long search for her beau. She is given a room at the same hotel where both Wyatt and Doc Holliday reside. Chihuahua, a hot-tempered Latina love interest of Doc's, sings in the local saloon. She runs afoul of Wyatt, trying to tip a professional gambler off to his poker hand, resulting in Wyatt's dunking her in a horse trough. Doc, who is suffering badly from tuberculosis and had fled from Clementine previously, is unhappy with her arrival; he tells her to return to Boston or he will leave Tombstone. Clementine stays, so Doc leaves for Tucson, Arizona. Wyatt, who has been taken by Clementine since her arrival, begins to awkwardly court her. Angry over Doc's hasty flight, Chihuahua starts an argument with Clementine. Wyatt walks in on their spat and breaks it up. He notices Chihuahua is wearing a silver cross that had been taken from his brother James the night he had been killed. She claims Doc gave it to her. Wyatt chases down Doc, with whom he has had a testy relationship. Doc forces a shoot-out, ending with Wyatt's shooting a pistol out of Doc's hand. The two return to Tombstone, where after being questioned, Chihuahua reveals the silver cross was actually given to her by Billy Clanton. During the interrogation, Billy shoots Chihuahua through a window and takes off on horseback, but is wounded by Wyatt. Wyatt directs his brother Virgil to pursue him. The chase leads to the Clanton homestead, where Billy dies of his wounds. Old Man Clanton then shoots Virgil in the back in cold blood. In town, a reluctant Doc is persuaded to operate on Chihuahua. Hope swells for her successful recovery. The Clantons then arrive, toss Virgil's body on the street, and announce they will be waiting for the rest of the Earps at the O.K. Corral. Chihuahua dies and Doc decides to join the Earps, walking alongside Wyatt and Morgan to the corral at sunup. A gunfight ensues in which all of the Clantons are killed, as is Doc. Wyatt and Morgan resign as law enforcers. Morgan heads West in a horse and buggy. Wyatt bids Clementine farewell at the school house, wistfully promising that if he ever returns, he will look her up. Mounting his horse, he muses aloud, "Ma'am, I sure like that name...Clementine," and rides off to join his brother.
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See all quotesI hereby declare the first church of Tombstone, which ain't got no name yet, or no preacher either, officially dedicated. Now, I don't pretend to be no preacher, but I've read the Good Book from cover to cover and back again, and I never found one word ag'in' dancin'. So we'll commence by havin' a dad-blasted good dance!
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Clanton: [about cattle] If you ain't got 'em committed to no shipper, I'll take 'em off your hands. Wyatt: Not interested. Clanton: I'll make ya a good offer. Pay in silver, three dollars a head. Wyatt: Nope. Clanton: Might raise it to five dollars silver. Wyatt: Made more than that in Mexico. Clanton: They'll be a sorry looking lot by the time they get to California, son. Wyatt: They'll feed out when we get to grass country. Sure is rough looking country. Ain't no cow country. Mighty different where I come from. What do they call this place? Clanton: Just over the rise there, a big town called Tombstone. A fine town. Wyatt: Tombstone! Yeah, I heard of it. Well, me and my brothers might ride in there tonight. Get ourselves a shave maybe. A glass of beer. Clanton: Yeah! You'd enjoy yourself. Wide-awake, wide-open town Tombstone. Get anything you want there.
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Holliday: I know all about you and your reason for being here. Wyatt: 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. Holliday: There's one here too, biggest graveyard west of the Rockies. Marshals and I usually get along much better when we understand that right away. Wyatt: Get your meanin' Doc. Holliday: Good.
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Holliday: [about how long Wyatt will stay in town] Until you catch the rustlers that killed your brother? Wyatt: That's the general idea. Holliday: What's the specific idea? Wyatt: I don't follow you quite. Holliday: You haven't taken it into your head to deliver us from all evil? Wyatt: I hadn't thought of it quite like that, but ain't a bad idea. It's what I'm gettin' paid fer. Holliday: Let's get down to cases, Marshal. I, for instance. How would you handle me if I took a notion to break the law? Wyatt: You already have. Holliday: For example. Wyatt: Runnin' that tin-horn out of town. That's none of your business. Holliday: I see we're in opposite camps, Marshal. Draw! [Holliday pulls and cocks his gun on Earp.] Wyatt: Can't. [He opens up his vest to reveal he doesn't wear a gun.] Holliday: We can take care of that easily enough. Mac! [Holliday shouts to the bartender for a gun. Before Mac can do anything, Wyatt's brother - standing behind Holliday - slides a gun down the bar to Wya
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Clementine: It is wonderful to see you again, John. You are pleased that I came...? [Pause] My coming has made you unhappy. Holliday: It was ill advised. Clementine: Was it ill advised the way you left Boston? Holliday: How'd you know I was here? Clementine: I didn't. Finding you hasn't been easy. Cow camp to cow camp, from one mining town to another. I should think that if nothing more, you'd be at least flattered to have a girl chase you? Holliday: Look Clem, you've got to get out of here... Clementine: But I'm not! Holliday: This is no place for your kind of person. Clementine: What kind of a person am I, John? Holliday: Please go back home Clem, back where you belong. Forget that you... [Holliday experiences a severe coughing fit] Clementine: You're ill, John. So that's the reason you left. Holliday: That has nothing to do with it. Clementine: Foolish, foolish John, as if that would have mattered. Holliday: I'll tell you, Clem, the condition of my health has nothing to do with it.
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Holliday: From where I'm standing Earp, that tin badge you're wearing doesn't give you the right to stick your nose in my personal affairs. Wyatt: What's eatin' ya, Doc? Holliday: Why didn't you tell me Miss Carter's here? Wyatt: She told you why. She wanted to surprise ya.
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