John Ford directs Henry Fonda, Victor Mature and Walter Brennan in this mythical take on the old west recreating the gunfight at the OK corral.

Beautiful Monument Valley vistas. Fonda at his most relaxed. A compelling blend of light interaction and building threat. As with many takes on the Wyatt Earp legend there is plenty of white washing. As movie heroes go though the construct born out of history is damn near perfect. The set pieces where Earp out thinks the danger while still being a man of action are as muscular as anything made in the modern age of the blockbuster. Western heaven.

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Perfect Double Bill: The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)