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My Darling Clementine

Play trailer Poster for My Darling Clementine Released Dec 3, 1946 1h 37m Western Play Trailer Watchlist
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In the middle of a long cattle drive, Wyatt Earp (Henry Fonda) and his brothers stop off for a night in the town of Tombstone. The next morning they find their cattle stolen, and one of the brothers is dead. Earp suspects the Clanton family, owners of the O.K. Corral, but wants his revenge to be legal. He becomes sheriff of Tombstone and forges a rough peace with an alcoholic gambler, Doc Holiday (Victor Mature). Earp also takes a liking to Holiday's former girlfriend, Clementine (Cathy Downs).
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Canny and coolly confident, My Darling Clementine is a definitive dramatization of the Wyatt Earp legend that shoots from the hip and hits its target in breezy style.

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Scott Tobias The Dissolve Ford the mythmaker was at the height of his powers in 1946's My Darling Clementine, but it's a remarkably relaxed and assured piece of work. Rated: 4.5/5 Oct 13, 2014 Full Review Joshua Rothkopf Time Out If ever there was a gateway drug to the happy addiction of Hollywood oaters, this is it. Rated: 5/5 Jan 21, 2014 Full Review Matthew Connolly Slant Magazine The film subtly complicates viewer expectations early on, eschewing clear-cut character rivalries in favor of more complex emotional and social configurations. Rated: 4/4 Jan 21, 2014 Full Review Adrian Turner Radio Times Filmed in black-and-white against Monument Valley locations, the film combines both the grandeur and the folksiness so typical of its director. Rated: 5/5 Aug 17, 2024 Full Review Bianca Garner InSession Film Regardless of whether or not there’s something more romantic to the relationship of Earp and Holliday, there’s no denying the fact that My Darling Clementine is an important picture. Jul 31, 2024 Full Review Brian Eggert Deep Focus Review My Darling Clementines beauty settles in the emotional profundity of the action, how every bullet has meaning, and violence is paltry next to the fates of our heroes. Rated: 4/4 Mar 21, 2022 Full Review Read all reviews

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John A Perhaps a bit pedestrian for John Ford but this telling of a Wyatt Earp tale is brisk, flowery and stylish. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 12/15/24 Full Review Arturo L My darling Clementine is a legendary and very beautiful story almost about the history of USA, with the incredible landscape and with all the tips and characteristics of the westerns, just to be one of the better examples of this kind of movies. The script is perfect. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 12/07/24 Full Review Angelo C Classic western with classic actors. Fonda and Mature are masters and work together like a fine tuned piano. Along with The Searchers my favorite western of all time. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 06/27/24 Full Review Alec B The western as morality play. Typical to the best of Ford's work the movie has a quiet melancholy from start to finish even as the "good guys" win. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/20/24 Full Review Steve D I know the story too well to not be appalled by the liberties. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 06/02/23 Full Review ed m Another John Ford classic. Ward Bond! Walter Brennan! Tim Holt! Rated 4 out of 5 stars 05/10/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis In the middle of a long cattle drive, Wyatt Earp (Henry Fonda) and his brothers stop off for a night in the town of Tombstone. The next morning they find their cattle stolen, and one of the brothers is dead. Earp suspects the Clanton family, owners of the O.K. Corral, but wants his revenge to be legal. He becomes sheriff of Tombstone and forges a rough peace with an alcoholic gambler, Doc Holiday (Victor Mature). Earp also takes a liking to Holiday's former girlfriend, Clementine (Cathy Downs).
Director
John Ford
Producer
Samuel G. Engel
Screenwriter
Samuel G. Engel, Sam Hellman, Stuart N. Lake, Winston Miller
Distributor
Key Video, 20th Century Fox
Production Co
20th Century Fox
Genre
Western
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Dec 3, 1946, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
Oct 8, 2015
Runtime
1h 37m
Sound Mix
Mono
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