"I'm your huckleberry Ringo" replied the cheerful doctor "That's just my game". Direct quote from the 1920's book "Tombstone: An Iliad of the Southwest" The script says huckleberry, and that's where the writer got it from. Val Kilmer has confirmed it is what he said. Also, there is no such thing as a huckle bearer, that is a BS myth that was made up on the internet. Nobody ever said it or even heard it until years after the movie when it was invented on the web.

Huckleberry. Just as the script says. And it's "I'm your", not "I'll be your"

Nope. No such term ever existed until it was made up on the internet. It's absolutely huckleberry. Script says so, and so does Val Kilmer.

Interesting, since he never had children

He did not, and they were not. Coffin handles were never, ever called Huckles. Just look up the word "Huckle" in any dictionary. Never meant any part of a coffin, or anything close to a handle. There isn't a single literary reference to "huckle bearer" that's NOT on the internet and predates this movie that exists. It's not written down anywhere. Because it didn't not exist. He absolutely said I'm your huckleberry, which is confirmed by reading the script. Or by looking up the title of Val Kilmer's book. Kilmer himself has heard this "bearer" nonsense and refuted it.

Huckleberry.

@MF Nickster No, it's not. Sheesh.

@MF Nickster Not true. I'm an actual expert in this field. I rely on old newspaper accounts and other period evidence as well as accounts verified in the national archives just to name a few sources. Not Hollywood. You just want to argue. Go away!

@@bakwada1 You are no such thing. There isn't a single literary reference to "huckle bearer" from any time period prior to the internet and message board, predating this movie. It did not exist. It's not in any old book, newspaper, obituary, national archives...nothing. Val Kilmer did not "accidentally" say "huckle bearer". It's literally in the script, which is online and can be read. The script writer lifted that phrase from a 1920's book "Tombstone: An Iliad of the Southwest" in which Doc tells Ringo "I'm your huckleberry. That's JUST my game", just like he does in the movie. "I'm your huckleberry" is a well-documented old saying that exists in many books. Unlike "huckle bearer" which only exists on the internet, starting in about 1997. As described, it's grammatically incorrect anyway. Allegedly, the casket handle was a huckle. (never was) So if you carried the casket, you were a huckle bearer. That's stupid. That would literally mean "handle bearer". You don't bear the handle of anything, you bear the LOAD, which would be the casket in this case. Further proof can be found by simply looking up the word "Huckle". It never, ever meant anything remotely resembling "casket handle", or any other part of a casket, or any type of handle. It means "Hip, haunch". Always did. So just that alone kills the "huckle bearer" nonsense myth.

@@SealofPerfection wrong

@@bakwada1 I accept your surrender. Go forth and Huckle "bearer" no more