Figure in a Landscape
November 11, 2014
John Ford takes on the legend of the O.K. Corral shoot-out in this multilayered, exceptionally well-constructed western, one of the director’s very best films. Henry Fonda cuts an iconic figure as Wyatt Earp, the sturdy lawman who sets about the task of shaping up the disorderly Arizona town of Tombstone, and Victor Mature gives the performance of his career as the boozy, tubercular gambler and gunman Doc Holliday. Though initially at cross-purposes, the pair ultimately team up to confront the violent Clanton gang. Affecting and stunningly photographed, My Darling Clementine is a story of the triumph of civilization over the Wild West from American cinema’s consummate mythmaker.
Wyatt Earp | Henry Fonda |
Chihuahua | Linda Darnell |
Doc Holliday | Victor Mature |
Clementine Carter | Cathy Downs |
Old Man Clanton | Walter Brennan |
Virgil Earp | Tim Holt |
Morgan Earp | Ward Bond |
Granville Thorndyke | Alan Mowbray |
Billy Clanton | John Ireland |
Mayor | Roy Roberts |
Kate Nelson | Jane Darwell |
Ike Clanton | Grant Withers |
Mac | J. Farrell MacDonald |
John Simpson | Russell Simpson |
James Earp | Don Garner |
Director | John Ford |
Presented by | Darryl F. Zanuck |
Produced by | Samuel G. Engel |
Screenplay | Samuel G. Engel and Winston Miller |
From a story by | Sam Hellman |
Based on a book by | Stuart N. Lake |
Director of photography | Joseph MacDonald |
Art direction | James Basevi and Lyle Wheeler |
Set decorations | Thomas Little |
Set decorations associate | Fred J. Rode |
Film editor | Dorothy Spencer |
Costumes | René Hubert |
Makeup artist | Ben Nye |
Special photographic effects | Fred Sersen |
Sound | Eugene Grossman and Roger Heman |
Music direction | Alfred Newman |
Music | Cyril Mockridge |
Orchestral arrangements | Edward Powell |
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