My Darling Clementine

John Ford takes on one of the most famous real life Western showdowns and shootouts, delivering a handsome and emotionally affecting character piece that also ends up dealing with the actual shootout. It’s mostly a character piece about Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday where the Clantons are largely forgotten for a very large bulk of the film. The heart is in the character work that dominates the center of the film, where the film is best, but the Clanton stuff ends up feeling tacked on. It also ...