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...film opens with Wyatt Earp, played with cool reassurance by Henry Fonda, and Earp's three brothers driving their cattle west to California. In search of "a shave and a beer," Wyatt and his brothers Virgil (Tim Holt) and Morgan (Ward Bond) head into the town of Tombstone leaving young James (Don Garner) behind to watch the cattle. When Wyatt takes it upon himself to subdue a drunk Indian so that he can get his shave in peace, he begs the question, "What kind of a town is this?" Immediately, he is offered the position of town marshall, but turns...
...Henry Fonda is 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...
Ford and his cinematographer, Joseph P. McDonald, were able to portray Wyatt Earp as the contemplative loner using many wonderful, contrasty long shots. Many of the scenes in this film are memorable not only because of Fonda and Mature, but also because of the many shadows they were forced to walk...
...HAVE NO MORE SKIN ON YOUR FEET. YOU WILL EAT NATURE BURGERS AND WORSHIP CHEDDAR WITH MUSTARD ON A PITA. YOU WILL SLEEP IN THE RAIN. YOU WILL WEAR SWEAT-SOAKED T-SHIRTS AND DON FLEECE SWEATSUITS THAT LOOK AS IF THEY CAME OUT OF A '70'S JANE FONDA VIDEO. YOU WILL LEARN WHAT IS POSSIBLE SIMPLY THROUGH PHYSICAL EXERTION. YOU WILL STRETCH THE BOUNDARIES OF WHAT YOU CAN ENDURE. YOU MAY EVEN HAVE A GOOD TIME...
...Arab as Plutocrat. The gas lines of the '70s fueled the image of overpowerful sheiks, shifty in kaffiyehs and sunglasses, plotting the petrodollar domination of the world in grim melodramas like Marlon Brando's The Formula (1980), Richard Gere's Power and Jane Fonda's Rollover (1981). There is an ironic precedent for such pop paranoia: the anti-Semitic myth of the all-powerful...