Posts from Gorch in thread „Hour of the Gun (1967)“

Deal me a hand at the Jason Robards is over-rated table. I mentioned in an earlier post on this movie that he played Doc like a zombie. Of course, that was after seeing Kilmer and Quaid in the '80s. If you want to see Jason at his absolute worst, watch his Brutus in Heston's "Julius Caesar". He's embalmed.
On the plus side, John Sturges knows how to compose for the wide screen; there are loads of character actors; the script is literate; James Garner and Robert Ryan are great and Jerry Goldsmith furnished a kick ass music score.
It's worth a watch - but only wide screen and not on an I phone.

We deal in lead, friend.

Yes, indeed, thanks Larry. Here's two more.

Earp's posse - Texas Jack Vermillion, Turkey Creek Jack Johnson, Sherman McMasters and Doc Holiday - all aces.

Here's some OK stills

Absolutely, but at least this was closer to the original OK Corral fight than the earlier Sturges version.

We deal in lead, friend

After the recent posting, I threw on "Hour of the Gun". Wonderful wide screen compositions by director John Sturges, world class Goldsmith, fine acting from Garner and outstanding supporting cast - whatever happened to Monte Markham?
Robards took the flashiest western role ever - Doc - and turned him into a zombie.

We deal in lead, friend.

I think very highly of this film, although I'm aware of it's flaws. Jason Robards seems to be sleepwalking through his Doc Holiday role and is too old for the part anyway.
The Goldsmith score is one of Jerry's best - which is high praise indeed.
The original title was "The Law in Tombstone" and the studio-released B&W still set is identified by the letters "LT".
There was a paperback novelization of the script, which may have been from an earlier draft or the writer, Robert Krepps, fleshed it out on his own. At any rate, the book is much more graphic and concludes with a big fight between Wyatt and Doc and a host of Clanton men. As long as they were going to chuck history aside, they may have well done it big time.

We deal in lead, friend.