Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (film)
1957 film by John Sturges / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral is a 1957 American Western film starring Burt Lancaster as Wyatt Earp and Kirk Douglas as Doc Holliday, and loosely based on the actual event in 1881. The film was directed by John Sturges from a screenplay written by novelist Leon Uris. It was a remake of the 1939 film Frontier Marshall starring Randolph Scott and of John Ford's 1946 film My Darling Clementine.
For the 1881 event, later retroactively named after the film, see Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
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Directed by | John Sturges |
Screenplay by | Leon Uris |
Based on | The Killer 1954 article Holiday Magazine by George Scullin[1] |
Produced by | Hal B. Wallis |
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Cinematography | Charles B. Lang Jr. |
Edited by | Warren Low |
Music by | Dimitri Tiomkin; lyrics by Ned Washington main title: Gunfight at the O.K. Corral sung by Frankie Laine |
Color process | Technicolor |
Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time | 122 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $2 million[3] |
Box office | $10.7 million[3] |
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