My Darling Clementine
Director: John Ford
Genre: Western, Action, Action/Adventure, Drama
Year: 1946
Country: United States of America
Language: English Language
Starring: Henry Fonda, Linda Darnell, Victor Mature, Cathy Downs, Grant Withers, Walter Brennan, Tim Holt, Ward Bond, Ben Hall, John Ireland, Alan Mowbray, Jane Darwell, J. Farrell MacDonald
My Darling Clementine is a 1946 western movie. It was directed by John Ford, and based on the story of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral between the Earp brothers and the Clanton gang. It features an ensemble cast including Henry Fonda, Linda Darnell, Victor Mature, Walter Brennan, and others.
The movie was adapted by Samuel G. Engel, Sam Hellman, and Winston Miller from the book Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal by Stuart N. Lake. The title derives from the folk song "Oh My Darling, Clementine", which is the theme song of the movie (sung in parts over the opening and closing credits). Whole scenes from an earlier version, 1939's Frontier Marshal, directed by Alan Dwan, produced by Sol M. Wurtzel, were reshot by Ford for this remake.
In 1991, this film was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.
In 1882 (the wrong year is marked on the tombstone of James, since Oct 26th, 1881 was the date of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral), the Earp brothers (Wyatt, Morgan, Virgil and James) are driving cattle to California when they cross the Clanton family led by the "Old Man".
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