So many times the cinema industry told the famous gunfight at OK corral when Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday have a duel against the Clantons, therefore they were portrait as heroes, otherwise in this new version conceived by Peter Hamil and Frank Perry, a sort of revisionist neo western, it was made in Spain at Almeria in order to cut the highest coast if it was shooting in America, according the own words of Stacy Keach on bonus material, he exposes many interesting facts concerning this newest version, as a open scene when Doc told his story by flashbacks and the final scene at graveyard when Doc is about to die, nonetheless the producers enforces a cut-off in the unusual approach, displeasing Stacy over this maiming of the conceptive premise.
At release time Doc wasn't well received by the critics and had a lowest results on box office as well, in my opinion for some key reasons as follow, first a revisionist western, second the actors often speaking in so softly way also on contemplative look, apart some similitudes on Arizona, Almeria is quite different in some aspects to replace the original environment, actually Tombstone has Chinese people working there at lowest jobs, it somehow lift the Doc in reliable storyline, instead the previous versions that never displayed such people that brought the opium to western that was commonly smoked in those house on Chinese quarter.
Now totally restored and reissued in DVD, it's a great opportunity to be reappraised for new audience aiming for to understand such vision of the filmmakers at early seventies, aside Stacy Keach we have Faye Dunaway who had worked in the successful Bonnie & Clyde as inveterate who.re and Harris Yurin depicting a bloodshed and greedy Marshal Wyatt Earp, worthwhile a look.
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First watch: 2023 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 7.5.
At release time Doc wasn't well received by the critics and had a lowest results on box office as well, in my opinion for some key reasons as follow, first a revisionist western, second the actors often speaking in so softly way also on contemplative look, apart some similitudes on Arizona, Almeria is quite different in some aspects to replace the original environment, actually Tombstone has Chinese people working there at lowest jobs, it somehow lift the Doc in reliable storyline, instead the previous versions that never displayed such people that brought the opium to western that was commonly smoked in those house on Chinese quarter.
Now totally restored and reissued in DVD, it's a great opportunity to be reappraised for new audience aiming for to understand such vision of the filmmakers at early seventies, aside Stacy Keach we have Faye Dunaway who had worked in the successful Bonnie & Clyde as inveterate who.re and Harris Yurin depicting a bloodshed and greedy Marshal Wyatt Earp, worthwhile a look.
Thanks for reading
Resume:
First watch: 2023 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 7.5.