Tombstone : The Director's Cut
Genre: Action / Western
Rating: R
Length: 130 minutes
Year: 1993
Langauage: English
Subtitles: English, French & Spanish
Number of DVD's: 2
Director
George P. Cosmatos
Stars
Kurt Russell
Val Kilmer
Sam Elliott
Bill Paxton
Powers Boothe
Michael Biehn
Charlton Heston
Jason Priestley
Jon Tenney
Stephen Lang
Thomas Haden Church
Dana Delany
Paula Malcomson
Lisa Collins
Dana Wheeler-Nicholson
Synopsis
A hollywood historical account of Tombstone, Arizona's famed "Shootout at the O.K. Corral" and the events that led up to it. Tension between "the Law" and "the Cowboys" stirs as the Cowboys, led by "Curly Bill" Broscius, accuse the Earps (Wyatt, Virgil, and Morgan) and their outlaw/gambler associate "Doc" Holliday of interefering with their operations inside and outside of town. While fairly accurate in depicting the Earps and Cowboys lifestyles and the Earp/Holliday side of the story, the film leaves out one major point of fact. Historically, the Earps/holliday are accused by the Cowboys (aka the Clanton/MacLaurey gang) of being generally corrupt and specifically responsible for a Wells Fargo robbery which left a man dead and the coach cleaned out. The Earps/Holliday in turn accuse the Clanton/MacLaurey's of the same. Tempers rise over this situation as well as over a court decision finding the Earps not guilty.