This is a movie I recorded with DVR. It stars Kirk Douglas as Doc Holladay and Burt Lancaster as Wyatt Earp. This 1957 movie is loosely based on a gunfight which occurred in 1881. However, other than that some of the same people were involved, this movie is not a historical representation of what really happened.
OK Corral is in Tombstone, Arizona. The movie presents this as Earp and Holladay traveling from Dodge City to give assistance to the brothers of Wyatt Earp in dealing with a cattle family that had a history of rustling and had it out for the Earps. That Wyatt would travel with Doc Holladay is frowned upon by his brothers who are lawmen, as he has a bad reputation for being a gun slinger.
Added onto this is the intrigue of the women involved. Doc has a girlfriend who turns to the bad. Earp has a girlfriend who was a gambler until he fell in love with her. However in the end, they are both without girlfriends.
One of the brothers is killed in an ambush, which lead to the confrontation at the corral. In this movie, the gun battle is a long drawn out affair. It has the use of shotguns and long rifles and pistols. It has flanking moves, and fire and obstacles to help in providing cover. It also has a chase with danger of ambush.
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