Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Representation in film, TV and literature
It is a testament to the gunfight's impact on the national psyche that numerous dramatic, fictional, and documentary works have been produced about or referencing this event over the decades. Here is but a small sample.
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- Frontier Marshal (1939)
- Tombstone, the Town Too Tough to Die (1942)
- My Darling Clementine (1946)
- The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1955) (television)
- Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)
- Doctor Who - The Gunfighters (1966)
- Star Trek - Spectre of the Gun (episode 56; 1966)
- Hour of the Gun (1967)
- Doc (1971)
- Tombstone (1993)
- Wyatt Earp (1994)
- Bianchi International produced a short documentary on the "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral" that was shown at their (now closed) Wild West Museum in Temecula, California.
- In "Spectre of the Gun", an episode of ', aliens placed the crew in the roles of several of the Claiborne-McLaury-Clanton gunmen in a surreal recreation of the gunfight to execute them. They however manage to survive with a minimum of violence.
- Actor Bruce Boxleitner's sci-fi/western novel Frontier Earth (ISBN 0441005896) deals with the events leading up to the gunfight.
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| ► | Introduction |
| ► | Context |
| ► | The event |
| ► | Aftermath |
| ► | A legacy of questions |
| ► | Representation in film, TV and literature |
| ► | External link |
| ► | Additional sources |
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