Val Kilmer’s best film fantastic performance. Sadly he never got even nominated for best supporting actor frankly he should have won it.

As great as everyone was in this movie, an they really were - I think that the universal opinion is that Val Kilmer absolutely stole the movie!  Just mesmerizing!

Doc twirling the cup is more than just mocking Ringo. He duplicates every move Ringo made, putting him on notice not to mess with him.

Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday were historical people made famous from The Gunfight at OK Corral event. As a young child way back in the 1960's, it seemed everyone knew about them in the western states from word of mouth.

PS: So impressive that you picked up on so much. Most reactors talk too much during the narration in the beginning and don't hear that Doc had TB. Also impressive you recognized so many actors including Hollywood icon Charlton Heston

The Lester Moore tombstone was real. Laudanum was an early opiate.

Loved you reaction. This is an amazing movie and Val Kilmer absolutely got robed of an Oscar for his performance.

P.S. When Doc was on his death bed and said "This is funny" it was because of his reckless and dangerous life he always thought he would die with his shoes on but instead he died comfortably in his bed with his shoes off.

Morgan was buried where I grew up in colton, California because their parents lived there. The public museum has gun recovered from the famous OK CORAL gunfight

That "no les no more" tombstone is an actual tombstone in the graveyard in Tombstone, you can see it if you visit

I've been to Tombstone several times when I lived in  El Paso, as I enjoy the old West and the books by Bob Boze Bell.  Lots of gunfighter history in El Paso (the Four Dead in Five Seconds gunfight), southern New Mexico (Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett) and then over in Arizona in Tucson and Tombstone.  Also I've been to where Ringo was found and buried at the foot of a tree by a creek.  It's on private property about 35 miles northeast of Tombstone.  The owner allows people in, and the story is a shot was heard in the afternoon of July 13th 1882 somewhere in the area, but no one investigated.  The next day a woodcutter found Ringo slumped against a tree with his pistol and a head shot; he was buried right there.  Many thought suicide, called so by the Coroner, although two riders had been seen earlier looking for him and may have set it to look like suicide.   Despite claims for Wyatt or Doc to have done it, records show that Wyatt wasn't even in Arizona (possibly Colorado with Doc) when it happened, and Doc was is in a court in Pueblo, Colorado on both the 12th and 14th on trial for larceny.  Although very commercialized, Tombstone is still interesting to visit if you do some homework.

Everyone loved Vals performance.
He just brought so much to that character.
Everyone was good in this movie, but most people loved Vals performance the best.
It would not have been nearly the same without him.

The tombstone you read at the beginning was an actual tombstone at tombstone

Doc Holiday was from Georgia.   He was a brilliant student who was ready to be a Dentist at 19.   TB made him go west.   His Hungarian girlfriend was big nose Kate.   Wyatt Earp's Jewish lady was Josephine Marcus.   They lived in California, and he was around movie sets with young actors like John Wayne talking about the West.   Josephine protected his legend with the book by Lake that became the popular TV show.   Ringo was found dead sitting by a trail.   Murder or suicide it was never determined.

Kilmer spins both guns in different directions at 18:08, this is incredibly difficult to do so smoothly. And he's still holding his cup as well.

And one of the most amazing things about Wyatt is that he never suffered a gunshot wound, ever, despite all the fighting he got involved in. His hat, coat, pants were shot full of holes, the heel of his boot was struck, the saddle horn was shot off, but he himself never suffered a scratch.

The actor that plays the cowboy with the thick moustache that's one of the three killed at the shootout at the OK Corral is Wyatt Earp III; Wyatt Earp's real life cousin.

For what it's worth...the grave marker reading "Here lies Lester Moore/Four slugs from a .44/No Les no Moore" actually was a real headstone in the Tombstone cemetery.

Wyatt was famous because of his service in Kansas.  They had "cowtowns" at the railheads where the herds were driven.  Wyatt had been able to tame the towns in which he served.  He was a legend before he got to Tombstone.

Technically Wyatt and Maddie were never wedded.  The fact that Wyatt never married her during their time together, speaks to his subconscious realization that she wasn’t the one for him.  RIP Maddie

Ladanum Was a Opium laced Medication that was very common during time Which made it very addictive Now Tombstone was a silver mining town

Classic and one of the best Westerns ever. Born, raised and still live an hours drive from Tombstone. City, all the buildings, and OK Corral still there largely tourist attraction now.   A yearly celebration of the movie draws some of the stars. Movie took license with some historical facts but it played out pretty much how real history played out. Saw many of the stars in Tucson while filming. Wyatt is buried in Colma, California. Doc Holliday was truly a southern gentleman born in Georgia and trained as a dentist.