Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything. Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything. In his famous quote, Wyatt Earp reflects on the importance of accuracy over speed. As a legendary lawman and gunslinger of the Wild West, Earp understood the deadly consequences of hasty actions.
Johnny Tyler : Well, for a man that don't go heeled, you run your mouth kinda reckless, don't you? Wyatt Earp : No need to go heeled to get the bulge on a tub like you.
"This is funny" are the last words of Val Kilmer's Doc Holliday in Tombstone, and there's a good reason he finds things so amusing. Tombstone was one of two competing biopics about legendary lawman Wyatt Earp, with Kevin Costner's rival movie having a much larger budget.
In the book Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal, author Stuart Lake wrote that Wyatt said that Morgan, before dying, whispered to Wyatt, "I can't see a damned thing." Wyatt said that they had promised each other to report visions of the next world when at the point of death.
A couple of years later she moved south to Fort Griffin, Texas, she met Doc Holliday at John Shanssey's Saloon, where Holliday was dealing cards. By this time, Kate had earned the nickname “Big Nose” Kate.
Handshake Refusal: Doc Holliday refuses to shake the hand of the corrupt fop of a sheriff who is in league with the Cowboy gangs, though this is because he's a Lawman, and has nothing to do with his corrupt foppery. Happily Married: Virgil and Allie Earp.
Wyatt Earp giving his badge to the bedridden Doc Holliday showcases their trust and friendship, as well as commemorates their real-life moments of partnership.
In the film Tombstone, starring Kurt Russell and Val Kilmer, during the closing credits reference is made to the fact that "Tom Mix wept" at Wyatt Earp's funeral. A passing reference is made about Mix in Season 3, Episode 2 of Downton Abbey.
John Henry Holliday (August 14, 1851 – November 8, 1887), better known as Doc Holliday, was a dentist and later a gambler, gunfighter, and a close friend and associate of lawman Wyatt Earp.
Truth be told, Wayne wasn't a pallbearer at Earp's funeral (though two silent stars, Tom Mix and William S. Hart, were). In fact, Earp never even appeared in a movie (though other living remnants of the West—lawman William Tilghman and outlaw Al Jennings—did).
The official verdict was suicide, although Wyatt Earp later claimed to have done the deed. Some think some other shady character may have put an end to Ringo—he had plenty of enemies—while others, including the scriptwriters for Tombstone, imagine Doc was the killer.
"Daisy" in Tombstone was common slang for top-notch, used to set up iconic one-liners by Doc Holliday. Doc's confident "you're a daisy if you do" line showcases his fearlessness and skill as a gunslinger. The recurring use of "daisy" in the film adds depth to Doc Holliday's character and sets up memorable moments.
Doc Holliday—gunslinger, gambler, and occasional dentist—dies from tuberculosis. Though he was perhaps most famous for his participation in the shootout at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona, John Henry “Doc” Holliday earned his bad reputation well before that famous feud.
Around 1877, Doc Holliday met Big Nose Kate at a saloon in Texas — and embarked on a decade-long love affair that saw the couple in violent fights, shootouts, and behind bars.
2016 SV Herald Photo - Big Nose Kate's Saloon co-owners Steve and Gloria Goldstein and their daughter Susan Wallace welcome you to their business. The family has owned the establishment since 1982. The saloon was recently named by True West as the best western bar in the west.
How did Doc Holliday managed to live with tuberculosis for 14 years from 1873 to 1887 without any antibiotics? - Quora. Tuberculosis as it existed in his time wasn't always quickly fatal. It's unusual that he lived that long with it but some people recovered from it so not every case of it followed the same course.
Yes John Wayne did know Wyatt Earp. John Wayne was gored as an extra and a prop boy. Wayne created his famous walk and talk in Westerns after Earp. It is said that John Wayne was a pallbearer at Wyatt Earps funeral.
A controversial school of thought suggests they never actually met. The public wanted to believe the romantic notion of the famous lawman meeting the young Western actor, but it was also claimed Wayne learned about Earp's life second-hand from Ford and not in person.
Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp (March 19, 1848 – January 13, 1929) was a Deputy U.S. Marshal, Deputy Sheriff, and Deputy Town Marshal in the Old West. In Tombstone, Arizona Territory, Earp took part in the Gunfight at (near) the O.K. Corral, during which lawmen killed three outlaws. Earp at about age 42.
