A powerful cast is essential for a great Western, and you couldn't find a better group of actors as the Earp brothers Kurt Russell, chiseled, squinty-eyed, and razor-thin, is an ideal Wyatt Sam Elliott, one of Hollywood's best Western actors, plays Virgil with a growl but a twinkle in his eye and Bill Paxton, soon to achieve stardom in APOLLO 13 and TWISTER, makes a terrific Morgan. Led by two of Hollywood's flashiest character actors, swaggering Powers Boothe, and coldly psychotic Michael Biehn (playing Johnny Ringo), the presence of such pure evil sets the stage for the Earps' arrival in Tombstone. (son of the legendary Western actor), in a scene reminiscent of ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST, and THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN. From the opening scene, narrated by the legendary Robert Mitchum, a nod to the great Hollywood Westerns of the past is evident a gang of outlaws calling themselves 'The Cowboys' break up a Mexican wedding in a small town, ruthlessly killing nearly all the men, including village priest Pedro Armendáriz Jr. TOMBSTONE, one of two epic westerns about Wyatt Earp released within a few months of each other (1993-94) lacks the lyrical, 'warts-and-all' quality of Kevin Costner's WYATT EARP, but is a more successful film, with tighter pacing, more clearly drawn characters, and a reverence to the genre that has made it the most popular Western of the last twenty years. Not in any language.ĭoc Holliday: Evidently Mr. Tombstone Marshal Fred White: Come on boys. Johnny Ringo: Eventus stultorum magister.ĭoc Holliday: In pace requiescat. I'm sure of it, I hate him.ĭoc Holliday: Credat Judaeus apella, non ego. Something around the eyes, I don't know, reminds me of. What do you think, darling? Should I hate him?ĭoc Holliday: Yes, but there's just something about him.
The deadliest pistoleer since Wild Bill, they say. Johnny Ringo: And you must be Doc Holliday.ĭoc Holliday: And you must be Ringo.
Wyatt Earp: Winner to the King, five hundred dollars. Law Dog, 'cause law just don't go around here.
Curly Bill: Wyatt Earp, huh? I heard of you.
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