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.