Review of My Darling Clementine

This is a movie showing the great director John Ford at the peak of his work, composing a wonderful legend out the story of Wyatt Earp, the Clantons and the shootout at the O.K. Corral. Nothing of this bears any resemblance to the facts as we believe to know them and nothing i could care less about. All the story is wonderfully told, with lead man Henry Fonda on top, being a commanding guy at one side and a shy love interest on the other, culminating his ego and his vain in the wonderful chair balancing scene. Victor Mature, for once wearing boots instead of sandals, pulls off a very convincing Dr. Holiday, well up to competitors Dennis Quaid, Val Kilmer, Kirk Douglas and Jason Robards, which come to my mind. And Walter Brennan, for once being a mean man completed by a group of almost retarded sons, also stands for a convincing Ike Clanton. This all is interwoven into a story of the frontier line, of church building and forming a community, Shall we gather at the River and so on. I love it, ad it is, i don't care for the facts. If i need that, i can always throw myself at Kevin Costner on HBO Asia. Not that i would like to, very much.