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Watch: Hour of the Gun 1967 123movies, Full Movie Online – Marshal Wyatt Earp kills a couple of men of the Clanton gang in a fight. In revenge, Clanton’s thugs kill the Marshal’s brother. Thus, Wyatt starts to chase the killers together with his friend Doc Holliday..
Plot: Marshal Wyatt Earp kills a couple of men of the Clanton-gang in a fight. In revenge Clanton’s thugs kill the marshal’s brother. Thus, Wyatt Earp starts to chase the killers together with his friend Doc Holliday.
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The best telling of it’s era, although inaccurate
Although inaccurate it far outweighs “Doc” made 4 years later. Garner does his best in portraying Earp as grim and unemotional, yet cool and unflinching. This was Earp’s persona. Robards, although older than the real Holliday was at the time, also does well. I’m not so sure if the real Holliday was concerned with Earp losing his character. He was a loyal friend who was in it for a pound.

Robert Ryan is a superior actor, but Clanton wasn’t a land baron. Clanton was a rustler/rancher, loud-mouth/coward that provoked the gunfight at the O.K.corral and lost the case for the prosecution by being a not-too-bright liar. I don’t know if Ryan could be cast correctly to portray the real Ike Clanton.But he does well regardless. Earp also didn’t really kill Ike.

This movie does explore the vigilante ride of Wyatt and Doc after the wounding of Virgil and the killing of Morgan Earp. Pete Spence was never a sheriff, and Sherm McMasters was a cowboy that informed for Wyatt. The movie is a superior western and as close to accurate as Hollywood came until “Tombstone” and “Wyatt Earp”.

The mood is somewhat interesting but it wasn’t a moral struggle for Wyatt and Doc in real life. They were doing what they felt was right, vengeance. Earp thought in very black and white terms, killing his brothers killers was the right thing to do in his mind. It didn’t matter if it was against the law he often swore to protect as a peace officer in those western boom towns. He was always upright and correct in his profession as a lawman, but in matters of family he was not on the job and no longer wearing a badge. his duty to law enforcement no longer applied.

The Hour has come
Sturges originally attempted to cast Hour Of The Gun – a loose sequel to his Gunfight at the OK Corral – with some of the same actors with whom he worked back in 1957, ensuring a natural degree of continuity. (Sergio Leone planned the same creative economy two years later by initially casting the famous station opening of Once Upon A Time In The West with a reunited Lee Van Cleef, Eli Wallach and Clint Eastwood.) Various factors made Sturges’ scheme impossible, but leading parts were still secured by some fine actors: James Garner (as Wyatt Earp), Jason Robards (Doc Holliday) and Robert Ryan (Ike Clanton) as well as, way down the cast list, a young Jon Voight. Music was commissioned from Jerry Goldsmith and cinematography was from Lucien Ballard, who contributed so much to several Sam Peckinpah films.

In the event the reception afforded the results was lukewarm. Hour Of The Gun was seen as too cynical and with a bitter tone that, though reflecting changing times, was less welcome in a conservative genre still a couple of years away from the controversies of The Wild Bunch. Audiences who had enjoyed the less complex moralities of such Sturges movies as Bad Day At Black Rock, The Magnificent Seven, or The Law And Jake Wade, and so on, were perturbed by the portrait of a lawman who, in the event as his best friend says could either be seen “as a hero with a badge – or a cold blooded killer.” Garner’s usually genial screen persona was subsumed in a portrayal of Earp as someone who eventually loses sight of his own guiding principals in an obsessive pursuit of personal vengeance. Adding to the uncertainties was the sight of a Doc Holiday whose own moral trajectory went unexpectedly the other way to such an extent it brings the two pals to blows.

“This picture is based on fact. This is the way it happened,” announces Sturges’ movie at its start, a complete antithesis to John Ford’s often quoted dictum from The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) to ‘print the legend’. Scriptwriter Edward Anhalt (who has an apt cameo in the picture as Holiday’s resigned doctor in the sanatorium) reduced the level of historical inaccuracy noticed in Gunfight At The O.K. Corral even if, as events moved further along from the OK fight and its effects, matters still tended to drift (the elder Clanton, for instance, did not end up shot in Mexico). And ironically, most weaknesses in Hour Of The Gun can be put down to its avowed intentions to stick closer to the twists and turns of history. Whereas Gunfight At The O.K. Corral has a largely simple, arching structure leading to an inevitable climax, its successor is more episodic. A good deal of running time is devoted to the various face-offs of its survivors – in courtrooms, in the townships or on the range, as animosities were carried further. In Sturges’ original crack at the legend, Earp defends society and the law and can be more objective in the process, even though it also concerns family; in the new film, in the light of the aftermath, he takes it far more personally. Legalities become ever more precarious until the changed, if still honourable, lawman confesses, “I don’t care about the rules anymore. I’m not that much of a hypocrite.” The classicism perceived in the earlier film, the moral clarity characteristic of cinema of the times (and demanded by the producer), is replaced by a more baroque narrative, which paints a much darker psychology.

Hour Of The Gun begins with one of the finest of all western openings. The combination of a fine Goldsmith score (its main theme a combination of a reluctant growl and world-weary call to arms), the director’s characteristically assured staging of action within the widescreen frame, as well as the tension brought by imminent events, are striking. The long, largely wordless moments as the Earps walk shoulder to shoulder, resolutely facing destiny, derive their power almost entirely from Sturges’ powerful mise-en-scène – a sequence which, incidentally, may have inspired Peckinpah when staging the climax of The Wild Bunch. After such a start any narrative would be hard pushed to sustain such tension, and the episodic nature of what follows, as mentioned above, does not always work to the director’s advantage. But Garner, Robards and Ryan (who also appeared in Peckinpah’s film) are excellent enough to keep matters on track, whilst the turning of various events gives Sturges plenty of chances to stage smaller gunplay between individuals. There is no distracting love interest and the sentimentality brought by the Frankie Laine ballad which echoes through Gunfight At The O.K. Corral – a hangover, perhaps of the singing cowboy tradition – has been discarded.

Today the particular mood of Hour Of The Gun seems better attuned to our cynical times than Gunfight At The O.K. Corral, which glows with a nostalgia not thought of when it was made: the lasting comfort of clean heroes and clean lines of plot. Garner’s Earp is not afraid to get his hands dirty in matters of personal revenge even if it means, ultimately, he feels unable to accept promotion to adjutant general, chief lawman of the territory. By setting his later film in the times after a notorious gunfight, Sturges pre-empted such later directors as Clint Eastwood and Kevin Costner, who have also been concerned with the consequences of violence in such films as Unforgiven and Open Range. To the extent that Hour Of The Gun is all about the lasting turmoil and personal costs brought by the fatal encounter by a dusty horse lot on 25th October 1881, it has much to say that is relevant today.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 40 min (100 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Approved
Genre Western
Director John Sturges
Writer Edward Anhalt
Actors James Garner, Jason Robards, Robert Ryan
Country United States
Awards N/A
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (Westrex Recording System)
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory DeLuxe, Hollywood (CA), USA (color)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Panavision (anamorphic)
Printed Film Format 35 mm