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...return to Tombstone of Doc Holiday (Victor Mature) begins the second chapter of this film. A dichotomy is quickly established between Earp and Holiday, the former calm and collected, the latter angry, passionate and dying from consumption. At first, the relationship between the two main characters is tense and strained, with both of them jockeying for position. Wyatt, still unsure about who killed his brother, suspects the Clanton family led by Pa Clanton (Walter Brennan). They represent the bad element of the town. Forced to frequent a Mexican bar, the Clantons are obvious outsiders, whereas Doc Holiday who comes from...
When Wyatt discovers Doc Holiday's girlfriend, Chihuahuas (Linda Darnell), with his dead brother's necklace, he wrongly assumes that Doc must be the one that killed his brother. In one of the most magnificent chase scenes of all Ford Westerns, Wyatt sets out to capture Holliday, who has left for Mexico. Ford quickly intercuts between Wyatt on a lone horse and Doc Holiday on a stagecoach urging the horses to run faster. Eventually Wyatt catches up and subdues him When Doc Holliday is returned to Tombstone, it is clear that, representing the law, Wyatt Earp can't be outrun...
...especially persuasive as the quiet, dignified marshal. It is very similar in its understatement to the role he played equally well in Sergio Leone's "Once Upon a Time in the West." Both required Fonda to take on a stark, but powerful persona. The relationship he forges with Doc Holliday's former fiancee Clementine Carter (Cathey Downs) is noteworthy because it is one of the few times this mythical hero bares his human side. While Wyatt Earp is always under control as he approaches danger, it is a woman who takes him off guard...
...intelligence collected worth the moral cost of dealing with murderers? In Haiti it is difficult to tell. The story begins in 1986, after the fall of Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier, when the CIA set up SIN, a Haitian intelligence agency, and poured the first of several millions into it. It was supposed to keep tabs on the narcotics trade but never produced much antidrug intelligence. (No wonder, since the CIA was relying largely on drug users; Constant, for example, is widely believed to be a cocaine addict.) The real aim, however, was to use SIN to recruit agents...