Wyatt Earp
by Lawrence Kasdan
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Actor: Dennis Quaid, Gene Hackman, Jeff Fahey, Kevin Costner, Mark HarmonDirector: Lawrence Kasdan
Brand: Warner Brothers
Producer: Kevin Costner
Producer: Lawrence Kasdan
Writer: Lawrence Kasdan
Editor: Carol Littleton
Producer: Jim Wilson
Producer: Jon Slan
Producer: Dan Gordon
Writer: Dan Gordon
Producer: Charles Okun
Producer: Michael Grillo
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Subtitled); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: Widescreen, 2.40:1
Running Time: 190 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-05-02
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Model: 74492
Studio: Warner Home Video
Product features:
- Kevin Costner plays the most famous lawman ever to stride the Wild West. In a gritty, complex portrayal hailed as a "classic American performance" (Bob Campbell, Newhouse Newspapers), Academy Award winner Costner (Dances with Wolves, The Bodyguard) plays the man who became a myth in acclaimed director Lawrence Kasdan's (The Big Chill, Silverado) epic, action-filled saga. Gene Hackman, an Oscar win
DVD Reviews of Wyatt Earp
DVD Review: An Earp epic
Summary: 4 Stars
Wyatt Earp may be the most famous lawman ever to grace the Wild West, thanks in large part to Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal, an earnest biography transcribed largely from his own account. Certainly he has long fascinated filmmakers, who have put him on the screen in such movies as John Ford's My Darling Clementine, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, and Tombstone. Most critics seem to think the last is the best, but I have a sneaking preference for this Kevin Costner version (he co-produced it, and buddy Lawrence Kasdan co-wrote and directed), perhaps because it's essentially a biopic: instead of concentrating, as the other three do, on the one defining incident of Earp's career, it attempts to trace the incidents that brought him there. Much of the story is told in flashback while Wyatt prepares for his famous gunfight. We begin in Iowa, where 15-year-old Wyatt (Ian Bohen) and his kid brothers Morgan (Scott Paul) and Warren (Oliver Hendrickson) are running the farm owned by their father, lawyer Nicholas (Gene Hackman), while their two older brothers, James (David Andrews) and Virgil (Michael Madsen) are off serving the Union in the Civil War. (No mention is ever made of a half-brother, Newton, by Nicholas's first marriage, who also wore the blue, and a fictional sister, Lou (Alison Elliott) is added to the family, while real-life sister Adelia, born when Wyatt was 13, is renamed Martha (Mary Jo Niedzielski).) Wyatt longs to do the same, but his father won't allow it. After the older boys return home, Nicholas decides it's time to move on, to California; en route Wyatt sees his first shootout--and is literally sick. Seven years later he's freighting supplies for the railroad and refereeing prizefights, in which latter capacity he is challenged to a gunfight--and wins by hurling a pool ball at his opponent. Returning to Missouri to study law under his grandfather (Giorgio E. Tripoli), a judge, he revives a Dante-esque romance with Urilla Sutherland (Annabeth Gish), marries her, loses her to typhoid within a year, and goes on a nine-month drunk that ends when he steals a horse and is bailed out by his father. Knowing he'll hang if he stays in the East, he goes on to buffalo hunting and meets the Masterson brothers, Bat (Tom Sizemore) and Ed (Bill Pullman), then accidentally finds his calling when, in Wichita, he's roused from his sleep by a drunk's hoorawing of the town, overcomes him when the local marshal won't, and is made a deputy. From there he's recruited to a similar office in the booming cowtown of Dodge City, which he "tames" with his anti-firearm ordinance and the help of brothers Virgil and Morgan (Linden Ashby), and while on a mission to Texas meets the tubercular Georgian dentist/gambler "Doc" Holliday (Dennis Quaid), who for reasons of his own takes to him deeply--and Wyatt to him, despite his father's maxim that only family counts ("Everyone else is just strangers"). At last, convinced that he'll never get rich working for other people, Wyatt--by now acknowledged as the leader of the family despite his position as literal middle brother--takes his brothers, their wives (Catherine O'Hara, JoBeth Williams, Betty Buckley), and his own common-law wife Mattie (Mare Winningham) to Tombstone, with Doc and his paramour Big Nose Kate (Isabella Rossellini) tagging along for the ride. Here he crosses swords with Sheriff John Behan (Mark Harmon) and the Clanton-McLaury "cowboys" and meets Behan's woman, Josie Marcus (Joanna Going), who leaves the sheriff for him shortly before the fight.
Though the exact cause of the enmity between the Earps and the Behan/Clanton/McLaury axis is never clearly explained (it's suggested that the Clanton and McLaury families were stagecoach robbers and rustlers of Mexican cattle, and that Behan preferred not to try to confront them, while the Earps found their conduct intolerable), the gunfight itself is recreated with close fidelity, and the whole look of the film is very gritty and dusty, as the West probably really was. The friendship between Wyatt and the Mastersons, and later Wyatt and Holliday, is very well done (Quaid does a particularly good job of bringing his character to life). And unlike most cinematic versions of the Earp legend, this one goes on to show what happened after the gunfight--the Earps holing up together for fear of mob action, their hearing and the dismissal of charges, the ambush of Virgil and Morgan by the survivors of the cowboys, and the pursuit of the latter by Wyatt, Doc, Warren (James Cavaziel), and several deputies. (A closing crawl tells us that members of the cowboy faction continued to die "mysterious deaths" for years after the battle, as well as giving some information on the later lives of the Earps.) The soundtrack by James Newton Howard Wyatt Earp is suitably epic and majestic. Though sometimes a bit slow, this is an example of what the modern Western could be if filmmakers were willing to take a chance on it more often.
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