*CRYING & CHEERING* watching Tombstone (1993) Reaction: FIRST TIME WATCHING

[@teknonstrikegaming8620]

That last scene with Doc when he said "I'll be damned. Isn't this funny." was because he thought he would die with his boots on in a gun fight. He was looking at his bare feet when he said that.

[@NetanelWorthy]

This is actually historically accurate.

[@Shiirow]

its more like he tried his damnedest to die in a reckless manner rather than in a hospital bed, but that was apparently his fate.

[@michaelburke750]

@@ShiirowThat’s, at the very essence, what was said by @teknonstrikegaming, or not?

[@nitrokid]

I thought he was referring to 'funny feeling' on his toes. I remembered some said that when your dying your toes get cold first, then your legs, and so on. Who the f knows XD

[@WadeRuse]

Wyatt and Maddie were never married. She was a whore that stayed with him and he let her use his last name. So technically he was not an attached man when he met Josie

[@elizabethfranco1284]

Wyatt first wife actually died of smallpox shortly after their baby was still born. Maddie was his common law wife,they never actually married.

[@momD612]

Don't they say at the end of the movie she died of a drug overdose? 🤔 🤷‍♀️

[@PFitz-sh4ms]

Madrid died of the overdose but she was not married to Wyatt they were just living together. Wyatts’ first wife died years before the events in this movie

[@wiccantexan]

@@momD612 She was an opium addict; that's what was causing the headaches. Withdrawal. Laudanum is a tincture of opium.

[@momD612]

@@wiccantexan yes, I know that. ??? Hence, drug overdose....

[@okumabear]

She was also a prostitute, and Wyatt was, presumably, her pimp for a portion of their time in Dodge City.

[@Karadjanov]

Regarding Doc: In the first scene with Ringo, Doc not just mocked him with the cup but actually mimicked every move he did showing how much attention he paid and how sharp he is. In the final scene when he says "this is funny" rumored to be his final words it is because he lived a very dangerous life and always thought he would die with his shoes on instead of with his shoes off comfortable in his bed.

[@insaneo8860]

Also dot holiday's cup is just as deadly because he has tuberculosis

[@ComicPhreak]

​@@insaneo8860Dot?

[@dow311]

@@insaneo8860good point, I didn’t think of that.

[@luminiferous1960]

@@insaneo8860 Tuberculosis is NOT spread by sharing cups or silverware, or sharing saliva when kissing someone. Tuberculosis is spread through the air when a person with untreated TB disease of the lungs coughs, sneezes, laughs, or sings. A person must be in close contact with someone with untreated TB disease of the lungs for a long period of time and needs to breathe in TB germs for infection to occur. Source: Tuberculosis Fact Sheet, New York State Department of Health.

[@lohiasam3495]

But his legend preceded their meeting... it didn't matter if he showed his skill or not, Ringo knew who Doc was!

[@jmhaces]

Johnny Ringo is the same guy who plays Kyle Reese in Terminator and Corporal Hicks in Aliens. He's mostly famous for playing good guys but he does have a few famous role as a bad guy, like this one and the guy he plays on James Cameron's "The Abyss."

[@CCCowboy]

He was also a bad guy in an episode of The Mandalorian 🙂

[@Kevonutube303]

But he was a good guy again... As the leader of the squad to stop Ed Harris from attacking San Fransisco in "The Rock"

[@laurelg9586]

Fell in love with Michael Beihn after seeing him in Terminator

[@pduidesign]

The scene where Ringo pulls out his gun and does all his tricks and then Doc Holiday pulls out a cup and imitates him is actually brilliant. What Ringo didn’t realize is that he accidentally showed Doc how fast (or slow) he was while Doc didn’t give Ringo any information because he pulled out a cup lazy. That’s one of the reasons that Doc wasn’t scared of Ringo. Yes, Doc was dying but he also knew he was faster and would win a gun fight.

[@nightfangs2910]

That's a good point, but I think doc wanted to show Ringo knowing tricks with a gun doesn't matter when the rubber meets the road and your down to who's faster on the trigger, and all that fancy bullshit means nothing

[@pduidesign]

@@nightfangs2910 that too.

[@pduidesign]

@@nightfangs2910 very true. No amount of fancy trick twirls help in a gunfight. But Doc saw Ringo’s initial fast draw before he started with the tricks, while Doc lazy took out the cup.

[@patrickevans9604]

Ringo knew doc would beat him though. That's why the only time he didn't try to back down from the challenge was when he was drunk.

[@JayAr709]

This wasn’t Dodge, and he wasn’t Bill Hickok.

[@mikefetterman6782]

The movie was shot in the original, "old town" of Tombstone AZ. It is now a tourist attraction, with shops of local trinkets, jewelry, blankets, and art, plus the saloons are still open. I was there 25 years ago and had a beer in the Crystal palace. You can go and visit, a little over an hour south east of Tucson.

[@mikefetterman6782]

Doc Holiday, famously quoted several times throughout his life, " i shall die with my boots on!" His last words were, ""That's funny," when he noticed his boots being off, and clean bare feet being his last sight.

[@nickreacts6394]

Oh dang I'm definitely going to go if I'm in Arizona!

[@judysonnenberg6237]

I was going to say the same thing! They didn't need to build a set for the town of Tombstone; they just covered the paved streets with dirt. I'm a native Arizonan and have been to Tombstone (and Bisbee, another awesome old- west town) more times than I can remember. You can definitely feel the history alive there-especially the Birdcage Theater (which is said to be very haunted, which I definitely believe)

[@jasonavery]

I went there in 2021, it’s still awesome. Boot Hill cemetery was awesome.

[@CharlaHarden-qe4sw]

Most of the movie was filmed at Old Tucson Studio.

[@jeffstrom164]

This is based on real events. The stream scene was very accurate to history. Wyatt himself didn't know how he was not hit in that fight. As to the romance, scenes were cut. The director went nuts part way through and Kurt Russel took over as director. Maddie had a drug addiction in the story and died before Wyatt went to Josie.

[@nataliestclair6176]

More like the movie was inspired by real events and like almost all history it's written by the winner. There was a lot more to the events leading up to and after the OK Corral. It was more than just 'good guys versus bad guys" because there really were no good guys The Earps, including Wyatt were not saints by any means. Just becuase they had been law men didn't make them good guys. The rough and tumble cattle towns of the old west would pin a badge on anyone who they thought could get the job done and didn't give a damn about whether they broke or obeyed the law. Even Billy the Kid was a Deputy US Marshall appointed by a judge during the Lincoln County Wars. Maddie Earp was not only Wyatt's wife but she was also a prostitute who Wyatt pimped out. The other Earp brothers married prostitutes and pimped the out as well. James Earp, one of Wyatts older brothers and not in the movie, was also in Tombstone as well running a brothel with his prostitute wife. The fued between the Cowboys and the Earps was much more complicated than the movie showed. It took over a year before it broiled over to the events at the OK Corral. It was political and personal and a power struggle for control with half the town siding with the Cowboys and half with the Earps. Clayton and his 'boys" were well liked in Tombstone and they didn't go around shooting up the town on drunken rampages. Both sided wants control of Tombstone. Tombstone was a booming silver town and while the silver mine was producing the town was getting rich. The Cowboys owned a lot.of land outside of town and the Earps had their hands on almost every business in the town from owning hotels, brothels, gambling joints to even extortion. It was just a matter of time before the two biggest kids on the block went head to head It was also political because the Cowboy faction were democrats and the Earps were Republicans and there were 2 newspapers in Tombstone, one that supported the Democratic faction of the town and one that supported the republican faction. They often printed stories pitting the Earps and the Cowboys against one another. There were conflicting testimonies of the gunfight becuase half witnesses sided with the Earps and the others sided with the Clayton's. The 2 newspapers just added fuel to the fire becuase again, one supported the Earps and the other the Clayton side. No one really knows the truth but since the Earps won it the side history remembers. Wyatt amd Doc were arrested and placed in jail for about 3 weeks while Morgan and Virgil being wounded were under house arrest. Wyatt and Doc had to be secretly moved a couple of times because Lynch mobs were formed by some of the towns people who supported the Cowboys. There was a trial and the Earps and Doc were acquitted of all murder charges and the judge ruled it was self defense. It didn't hurt that Judge Spicer was a republican judge. While the Cowboys did shoot Virgil Earp in an ambush and killed Morgan, the events happened months apart and not on the same night. They never shot up the wives or killed the mayor and his family. The mayor was actually a Democrat and on the side of the Coelwboys and friends with the Clayton's. The fued was very complicated and would be hard to put into a 2 or even 4 hour movie so it's easy to see why it was condensed. Johnny Ringo was found dead leaning up against an oak tree with a bullet wound in his head. For years several people who said to have killed him and others claimed they did but no one knows. Most common and accepted theory is that he committed suicide. He also was not as educated as the movie portrayed didn't speak latin Latin. He was a bad man though, bad as in morally bad and don't want to mess with bad. Before riding with the Chochise County Cowboys of Tombstone, he had been a hired gun in several cattle war. Tombstone is an awesome movie and while not historical accurate it does a great job trying to remain faithful to the some of the events. I do enjoy this movie and have seen it several times and Val Kilmer was great as Doc Holiday

[@jeffstrom164]

@nataliestclair6176 Yeah, not claiming the rest was acrate. Just the stream fight scene and Wyatts wonder at it. In the story for the movie, Maddie dies before going to Josie. Don't know about reality. Many of the accounts we have come from Wyatt and his side though, so I'm sure you are right on the bias.

[@nataliestclair6176]

@@jeffstrom164 yeah there is nothing historcal about when Wyatt and Mattie ended their relationship of if it just ended without words so to speak. She left Tombstone with Virgil and his wife to go the California and it'd not known if Wyatt ever saw her again. Wyatt did start his relationship with Josephine Marcus around 1881 or 1882 and Matrie died of a drug overdose in 1888. So Wyatt and Josephine were together before Mattie died.

[@hardcorenativextreme]

The man in the blue didn't die at the creek but a few days later in a barn and told the story about Wyatt never being hit in the between of the gun battle

[@Gutslinger]

​@@jeffstrom164According to a western historian on KZbin, who actually got to visit this movie set, Wyatt didn't wade out into the creek like the movie. My memory is somewhat vague, so I forget the details he gave. But he claimed it happened on the trail leading up to the creek. Supposedly, Wyatt had loosened his gun belt due to the heat. At some point Wyatt got off his horse, and everybody who was with Wyatt fled during the firing. And supposedly Wyatt was wrestling with his gunbelt or pants hanging halfway down, and ended up using his shotgun and blasted him with both barrels. Wish I could remember the channel's name, but it can probably be found through searching the topic. His channel is named after an of west magazine name that he bought the rights to.

[@renegade121258]

Just so you know this is extremely accurate. The town of Tombstone exists. I've been there and stood at the OK corral where the gunfight took place. It's an amazing piece of U.S. history and Wyatt Earp and Doc Holiday are legends.

[@williambranch4283]

OK Corral was open like in real life back in the 80s, but they walled it in and turned it into a tourist trap.

[@MrMetamorFitness]

I live an hour away from Tombstone. Love the history and great experience

[@amiebabineau1418]

It’s pretty amazing to visit Boot Hill. Johnny Ringo is buried nearby also, basically where they found him. It’s on private property, but they allowed people to visit as of when I was there a few years ago.

[@historyofnerdom6111]

Saying this movie is extremely accurate has to be a joke 😂😂

[@williambranch4283]

@@historyofnerdom6111 Compared to the Good, Bad, Ugly as a documentary of the Civil War in New Mexico Territory?

[@dassian]

Val Kilmer's performance in this movie is incredible!

[@frankburmaster6689]

Superb acting all around.

[@EricNorthman-h2f]

Best Doc Holiday Ever !!

[@RyeSix45]

"Im your huckleberry" Classic badass line there ha

[@RogCBrand]

I remember reading about how John Wayne, when he was a young actor just getting started, saw Wyatt Earp visiting a movie set, and Wayne started imitating the way Earp walked and talked, so watching John Wayne, you are getting to see a bit of what Wyatt Earp was like!

[@Gutslinger]

I read that as well, but I think I also read that that was a made up rumor. That they supposedly never met. 🤷🏽‍♂️

[@RogCBrand]

@@GutslingerYeah, it seems I read something that it might have been that Wayne heard all about Earp from John Ford who was around him. It's like the "Mr. Rogers was a skilled sniper in Vietnam, and wore sweaters to cover all his tattoos!" myth. Unless there's some actual proof, it most likely is made up. Though with Earp involved with movies around the time Wayne was getting started, that does leave some chance it is true, though without a photo, or some mention from the time, there'll never be any proof.

[@gk5891]

The groom at the wedding was Policia, they were across the border in Mexico. They killed him in revenge for their killing of two "Cowboys". Laudanum was traditionally 10% powdered opium dissolved in a liquor containing 25-90% alcohol. It was about as available as aspirin today. They took it for everything from a tooth ache to a pulled muscle. Needless to say addiction was extremely common in that time frame.

[@dturasky19]

these reactors miss so many explained or obvious plot points, i do like younger audiences enjoying great movies like this but so often i find myself yelling come on! how do you miss the plot or points so obvious in the movie??? some dont even really watch and only react to points in the movie that are key, that's evident. not saying Nick does that...but i did find myself questioning missing so many obvisions things in the movie....IE Kurly Bill obviously smoking opium and not understanding his actions before killing Fred. they did catch on, but in the intro they said Doc had TB and moved west for his health, but they said he sweating because of drinking...... anyway...... just an old dude's take and again glad younger people watching these great movies i just hope they are actually watching and paying attention and not just working for likes.

[@gk5891]

I'm still middle aged, but I had Grandparents that taught me about a lot of things they didn't cover in school. Everything from the "Swamp Fox" to the McMinn County War.

[@nataliefaust7959]

@@dturasky19 Sometimes it just depends on our interests too. I was always interested in history and I understood a lot in period films. If I didn't I read up on it. But then I became a historian. It can be frustrating, I admit, but it's an opportunity to teach and share and learn. It's important to be encouraging to people, no matter their age, if you want them to learn about a subject. ♥

[@_Mjorindahl_]

Laudanum is an opiate that people used to 'take for headaches', but once you took it a couple times, the new headaches were caused by the opiate addiction, jonesing for more laudanum.

[@sandbagger57]

Doc Holiday was a brilliant student and young Dentist. He had Tuberculous which led to him going west. His Hungarian lady was Big Nose Kate. Wyatt Earp's Jewish lady was Josephine Marcus. She protected his legend in a book and a famous TV show. Johnny Ringo was found dead sitting next to a tree. It was never solved.

[@nickreacts6394]

Thanks for this! We watched a couple videos about the true story cause we were really interested after the movie

[@Gutslinger]

Johnny Ringo was theorized to have shot himself. But the odd thing about that is that the bullet that went through his head didn't go through the hat that he was found wearing. And the people who owned that land that day were hauling lumber to town on a nearby trail. They encountered a group who asked about the whereabouts of Ringo.

[@r.e.tucker3223]

Don't forget Ringo's boots.

[@jamespierce7232]

Doc shot Ringo in the left temple which controls the right side of your body. That's why he holsters his weapon then eggs him on knowing he couldn't shoot him.

[@mattnewmark7607]

I came to the comments to see if anyone explained both Doc 1v1 scenes to the reactors - I get how some people could maybe miss it the first time, but missing BOTH? But you've not only missed the point, you've completely flipped it on it's head. Doc fatally wounds both opponents he faced 1v1 but in such a way that they could still possibly kill him before they die. "You're no daisy" isn't an insult, it's a lamentation because now Doc is consigned to dying in bed rather than in an epic gunfight.

[@Gutslinger]

That's where Ringo was actually shot in real life. It was an accepted belief that Ringo committed suicide. Which explains the lines Ringo after Doc shoots him. Though it is odd that in real life, he was found with his hat on, and the bullet didn't go through his hat.

[@wamingopublishing674]

@@mattnewmark7607Exactly. Doc is looking for that one “Daisy” who will end his misery. He shoots Frank McLaury near his heart at the OK Corral, which was a mortal wound but might let him live long enough to kill Doc in return, but then Morgan Earp ruins it by shooting Frank in the head. Doc looks at Morgan with frustration afterwards (Frank: “I got you now.” Doc: “You’re a Daisy if you do.”). Then Ringo fires his gun into the earth, wasting his shot. Again, frustrating Doc. “You’re no Daisy at all!”

[@jaimicottrill2831]

An absoultely fantastic 90's movie you should watch is "Last of the Mohicans". It has Daniel Day Lewis in it. Incredible score, fabulous acting and the scenery is so beautiful! Also, watch "The Crow"- it is so dark and gritty and the soundtrack is phenomenal.

[@dow311]

Great recommendations, I love both films.

[@markcarpenter6020]

No Wyatt's wife wasn't sick, she was a dug addict.

[@stonewallhackson2927]

Thank you. I was going through these comments going nuts thinking no one else pointed this out

[@metalboy8934]

Alot of people dont know that Icke Clanton is played by Stephen Lang. Who played the Colonel in Avatar 1 and 2, a major in Jarhead 2 and in Dont Breath 1 and 2, Conan, Braven (next to Jason Mamoa) And the guy playing McMasters, actor Michael Rooker, also plays Merle in The Walking Dead. Michael Biehn, Terminator 1. Sam Elliot, We Were Soldiers. Bill Paxton, Terminator 1, Predator 2, Twister, Titanic. Frank Stallone playing Ed Bailey (yes, As in Sly Stallone his brother).. I can go on and on and on and on... Absolute best cast you can wish for.

[@lloydcollins6337]

Stephen Lang also played Pickett in Gettysburg, and IIRC Stonewall Jackson in Gods and Generals

[@barrettolsen1622]

The Wild West feels like it was a lot longer ago than it actually is. Wyatt Earp died in 1929. My grandmother was 7 years old.

[@Midknightwriter]

In truth Wyatt was never married to Mattie, she was an ex-soiled dove. Doc asked Wyatt at one part if he considered himself a married man. The brothers got their girls the same way. It is believed he did marry Josie.

[@StoriesThatSuck-pw1vi]

It sort of revels a lot of Johnny Ringo's personality that the only shot he fired in the gunfight at the wedding at the beginning was to kill the unarmed priest because the priest was getting on his nerves.

[@janabraam7963]

The Gunfight at the OK Corral was a famous gunfight that was the focus of many westerns. Doc got his nickname because he got a degree in dentistry at the age of 20. This fantastic cast grew their own mustaches except for Sheriff Behan, who has another role to close to filming this & didn't have time to grow one. There is a saying from the old west "they died with their boots on" meaning they died fighting. That's why Doc made the comment when he saw he was barefooted. He always thought he would die fighting.

[@FeaturingRob]

The film is pretty accurate in many ways, and wildly romantic in others. At around the same time this film came out, another film called Wyatt Earp came out starring Kevin Costner as Wyatt. That film is more of a film biography. I was born and raised in Arizona, and all of the legends of the Earps, Doc Holliday, The Clantons, and McLaurys...all of it was floating around me as a kid. The Gunfight at the OK Corral took place October 22, 1881 at around 3:00 PM, and took all of 30 seconds. It was the most defining moment in Wyatt Earp's life...as was the Earp Vendetta Ride depicted in the film after the OK Corrall. Maddie was not married to Wyatt. They lived together long enough for her to be considered his common law wife. Their relationship was already on the downhill slope due to her addiction to laudinum, which was mostly opium for her headaches (personally, I would venture Maddie suffered from migraines). One person who never spoke ill of Maddie after her death was Josephine. In fact, Josephine and Wyatt never married, although they claimed they did...no record exists. Wyatt's wife, Urilla, died very young and tragically, hitting him hard. He never married another woman, but Maddie and Josephine were his longtime companions. Val Kilmer was cheated of a nomination, however the field that year for Best Supporting Actor was fierce. Tommy Lee Jones won for The Fugitive, but also nominated were Ralph Fiennes (Schindler's List), Pete Postlewaite (In the Name of the Father), Leonardo DiCaprio (What's Eating Gilbert Grape), and John Malkovich (In the Line of Fire) and all of them were stunning performances as well. If anything, Kilmer was probably just shy of enough votes placing him in the top 10 considerations for that year, but those five were the ones that made the list. Ironically, Kurt Russell's son, Wyatt Russell, was not named so because of the movie Tombstone, as Wyatt was born in 1986. Whether Kurt named him that because of his interest in Wyatt Earp, I do not know.

[@irishmedic]

Absolute best line! "Lets have a spelling contest." So funny!

[@find2hard]

Now isn't that a daisy. Some great 90's movies: Heat, Falling Down, The Game, Casino, Sneakers, Ghost in the Shell (the original), Austin Powers, Clerks, Groundhog Day, The Big Lebowski, La Vita e Bella, La Haine.

[@Wahots79]

I've been to Tombstone. I lived nearby in Sierra Vista many years ago. I've seen the Tombstone Here lies Lester Moor, four slugs from a 44. No les (not legs), no more. It's a play on his name and the number of times he was shot. I absolutely LOVE this movie. Val stole the show with his portrayal of Doc. The scene in the saloon with the gun-slinging, - Doc copied the guy move by move, even in his ill and inebriated state. The leader of the cowboys saw it...and realized just how deadly Doc really was. Big Nose Kate, Doc's lady of questionable repute - she wasn't trying to kill him. She knew he could not be contained. She knew he wouldn't take advice, and would do as he bloody well pleased. He knew he was going to die. He wanted to do it standing up in his own boots. (which leads to him laughing as he looked down at his bare feet in the bed at the end of the movie.)

[@shawnburkhart3463]

When Doc says, “I have 2 guns. 1 for each of ya” he actually spins his guns in opposite directions, displaying his elite skill and abilities

[@donaldseale2700]

If I remember correctly, Wyatt and Mattie was never actually married. They had what was at the time called a Common Law Marriage. When a couple lives together and presents themselves as a married couple, but haven't actually gone through the legal ceremony.

[@adgato75]

Common Law marriage still exists legally in some states, it governs splitting assets in long term relationships with cohabitation but without legal marriage.

[@donaldseale2700]

@adgato75 Didn't realize it still existed. Thanks for the info.

[@coreozurn4950]

Wyatt and Maddie weren't married. That's why Doc asked Wyatt if he considered himself to be a married man.

[@jamesalexander5623]

If you Co-Habitated for a Year in most States, it was called a "Common-Law Marriage"! ,

[@scottdarden3091]

Classic 90's movie Platoon

[@orangeandblackattack]

This is the most accurate depiction of the true story ever put into a movie. While some scenes are speculation, they follow what they THINK happened. No one ever said how Ringo was shot in the head, but Doc was looking for him at the time. The "NO!" scene is accurate. Wyatt had like 15 holes in his coat but never got hit. We learned about this in high school. They don't teach this anymore. That's why Gen X knows more history than newer generations. I paid $7.50 to see this in the theater..it was worth $30 ticket to me. Great reaction!

[@silversamurai0267]

Tombstone was mostly filmed in Old Tucson, which today acts as a sort of theme park, similar to the renaissance fair. (But smaller and western themed) It's an old western town in the middle of nowhere and Hollywood used it often for old western movies.

[@mikecrider8478]

When Curly shot Marshal White, he didn't die immediately. He lived for a couple of days, saying that Curly Bill was innocent and the shooting was due to accidental discharge. The actor who played Ed Bailey (the man stabbed by Doc) was Sylvester Stallone's brother Frank, and the man who played the cowboy Billy Clairborne at the beginning was a relative of Wyatt Earp, which is the actor's name as well.

[@darknarmed]

Doc was a outlaw. That's why he was mad at Wyatt for telling the Sheriff he was there. Doc was a known gun slinger. So was Ringo.

[@DeathswingKettlebell]

I grew up where Morgan is buried in Colton CA. The earps parents lived there right off H street and it's still there with people casually living in it. I just went to Tombstone for my bday last month. Highly encourage u to visit. Daily gunfights reacting the OK corral, landmarks where hangings took place, where Curly Bill shot the marshall. Turns out marshall whites last whispering words were "it was a mistake". The town has TONS of paranormal ghost tours with amazing nightmarish stories. Glad u liked the movie!

[@theroachden6195]

The ending with Wyatt and Doc literally makes everyone choke up.

[@nataliefaust7959]

Mattie was a former sex worker. She probably did suffer from migraines, but her laudanum addiction certainly wasn't helping. Doc was originally a dentist! He had tuberculosis and there was nothing he could do but try to live in a dry climate. Gunfighter, gambler, outlaw, and best friends with the most famous lawman in the West. His girlfriend Kate was an absolute bad-ass too. She had chosen to be a sex worker for the independence. She was more than capable of holding her own in a fight with the men around her. She was also a gambler and outlaw. She lived until about 90 in 1940, outliving everyone.

[@leoncepierre3963]

The last words of Doc Holliday, "I'll be damned. This is to funny". Doc is looking at his bare feet. After all the man went through he died with his boots off. What a fantastic scene.

[@celticson]

I've been to the cemetery in Glenwood Springs, where Doc is buried. No one knows precisely where in the cemetery he is, because his grave is unmarked. Apparently they were afraid it would be desecrated. His tombstone says "In memory of Doc Holiday, who is buried somewhere in this cemetery".

[@TotallyTVNATION]

The town of Tombstone Arizona still exists. Main street is a tourist location now but it still stands. You can go to the theater and look around, take a tour in a horse drawn buggy, and watch a reenactment of the shootout at the OK Corral. There's also a regular town full of good people there too. It's about 2hrs from me and I've been there many times. You can even check out old Les Moore's tombstone at Boothill Cemetary still.

[@maingate7672]

Curly Bill and Fred were friends, the shooting was accidental, according to Fred, who lived for a few days after.

[@nickreacts6394]

Yeah we looked up the true story afterwards, I'd say Curly Bill wasn't so clearly the villains in real life

[@ThatBlackPiano]

The actor you knew at the beginning, Johnny Ringo, was the same actor from the movies, “Aliens” & “The Terminator” More 90’s class: “Meet Joe Black”, “Powder”, “Bicentennial Man”, “Mind Hunters”, “Daylight” (starring Sylvester Stallone), and “Vertical Limit”.

[@AnnaB22]

Michael Biehn (Johnny Ringo -who Doc Holiday killed) was in "The Terminator" he was sent through time to save Sarah Connor and become the father of John Connor.

[@richardhansen3703]

The first guy you noticed that you couldn't place you might recognize from the movie Aliens, and from the movie Terminator. In fact, two of the actors in this movie were in Terminator.

[@adamskeans2515]

That "no les no more" tombstone is still on a grave in Tombstone today. You can visit it.

[@adamskeans2515]

I am aware, and I have visited. Why is this directed at me?

[@JessieWard33]

If you ever want to do another Western that's not really old, Silverado from 1985 is a very good movie.

[@nickreacts6394]

Thanks for the recommendation!

[@abramsalinas1004]

Take a look at "Gunfight at the ok Corral" staring Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas is what this show is after.

[@ReymundoCortez]

So the little booklet that he give Doc those type were very popular at the time. People would write stories of Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp, Virgil Earp, Doc Holdiay, Jesse James and many others. That is how many people would learn of their gunfights remember there was no internet or tv back then.

[@johncox6321]

They were called "Penny Dreadfuls."

[@PatrickPrejusa]

TOMBSTONE IS MY FAV PLACE IN ARIZONA, SO MUCH OF THE HISTORY OF THEE EVENTS IS CELEBRATED AND PRESERVED THERE.

[@thedoctor4327]

One of those westerns I always recommend. Othe great ones include: - The Dollars Trilogy (“A Fistful of Dollars”, “For a Few Dollars More”, and “The Good The Bad and The Ugly”) - Once Upon a Time in the West - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance - Blazing Saddles

[@FilmmakerReactions]

This movie is an accurate presentation of the real people and events, one of the most famous sagas of the old west.

[@benjamineckles]

If you look in the credits Wyatt Earp the 3rd plays one of the Cowboys.

[@TimSmith-uc4pk]

Billy Zane did the Titanic and the Phantom. Dana Delaney was in the TV series China Beach. Sam Elliots recently worked on the series 1883 with Tim McGraw.

[@MrLorenzovanmatterho]

Everyone should have a friend like Doc!

[@johnscott4196]

The rancher who takes Doc in was played by one of the most prolific and famous actors in history. Charleton Heston. Two must watch recommendations Ben Hur and The Ten Commandments (not the remake ones)

[@slaaneshhedonite7068]

There a couple movies I saw every weekend. This is one of them. Have a 24x36 poster of it in me ManCave.

[@caldwellkelley3084]

One of Val Kilmer's very best performances! Hello from just south east of Tombstone AZ.

[@Hardrock1a]

Doc Holiday is buried in Glenwood Springs, CO.

[@MissJojo7682]

Doc is my favorite character as well. ❤

[@jduncanandroid]

Doc wasn't saying that Wyatt couldn't beat Ringo in a gun fight, he was saying Wyatt couldn't win against him... there's a difference.

[@bad-people6510]

Aside from a few things, some of which I've pointed out, this is actually one of the more historically accurate movies ever made.

[@lonnieeastin6401]

"Well, I'll be damned." quote from Doc Holliday. It's because of the phrase "Die With Your Boots On". Meaning, don't die a sad old man in a bed. Go down fighting. And he died in a bed not wearing his boots. Ironic, considering how many bullets have whizzed past him in his life.

[@wyattguilliams5325]

That actor you recognized was Michael Beihn he and Bill Paxton were in the movie Aliens together

[@jollyrodgers7272]

Doc Holliday had TB (tuberculosis), as many in his family did, and he died in Glendale, Colorado - 6 years after the Gunfight at the OK Corral. Witnesses and court records indicate the battle lasted about 30 seconds with about 30 shots fired, and arguably the most famous gunfight in the Old West. The real Wyatt Earp lived an exciting life after leaving Tombstone, with Josephine - too varied to detail here, so check Wiki for a lengthy entry. Western actors Tom Mix and William S. Hart were among his Hollywood pallbearers, and he was the last living participant of the famous gunfight.

[@barrycohen311]

Good the Bad and the Ugly is a total classic. The Unforgiven is great for a more modern Western. It breaks some of the tropes.

[@nickreacts6394]

We'll probably react to the Good the Bad and the Ugly next!

[@paragonpiper4081]

Definitely look up the documentaries on Doc. He was a very interesting man. Wyatt talked extensively on his life (including on how Doc was one of the best gunman), and the movie followed most of Wyatt’s story about his time in Tombstone.

[@rw4487]

Val Kilmer was robbed of an oscar.

[@PaulGibson-v3f]

The voice over at the beginning was by the great actor Robert mitcham he was in a few hundred movies westerns being the predominant genre true story so it's brilliant, the younger brother was in predator two, aliens, terminator. Virgil was played by Sam Elliott from roadhouse fame amongst hundred other films he also plays a great role in the war film we were soldiers

[@robinhardman7527]

I loved watching you both react to this movie. My favorite so far. This is the most accurate account of the “Shootout at the OK Coral” Tombstone Arizona. They made everything look as detailed and accurate as it really was. This is a true story. The consequences post the OK Coral shootout which only lasted 30 seconds was getting rid of the Cowboy Gang. Val Kilmer was epic as Doc Holiday. Many people have played Doc Holiday, but Val Kilmer studied him and his Virginia Accent and portrayed him as he really was. He was a Dentist, very educated until he contracted TB which was a death sentence in those days.Maddie was not Wyatt Earp wife. Val Kilmer should have won the Academy Award for this, but I think even better is that he won the all time best performance ever from everyone everywhere who has seen this movie.

[@nathancruz9172]

That's my dad's all time favorite western movie.

[@jmanganella123]

Great reaction, the film was pretty close, but the cowboys never wore red sashes, they actually didn't want to be recognized. Doc didn't shoot Ringo, him and Wyatt were in Colorado. Ringo they believe committed suicide. Maddy went to CA on the train with the rest when they took Morgan's body back there. Wyatt was actually addition in a chair while Morgan was shooting pool, a second bullet went over his head and hit the wall. If you go to the birdcage, you can see bullet holes in the ceiling. I go to Tombstone often, if yall get the chance, go visit.

[@touchstoneaf]

I forgot to mention a couple of other really accessible Westerns if you're new to the genre: one of them is Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid with Robert Redford and Paul Newman, who are an amazing duo who did another movie together that's not a Western called the Sting, which is more of like a con movie. Another is a more modern Western with Robert Redford called the Electric Horseman. These are my mother's favorite Westerns, because she also grew up with the genre, and she thinks Robert Redford is the greatest thing since sliced bread. Incidentally, Robert Redford created the Sundance Festival based off of the name of his character from the former film.

[@dariusdodd]

Nice touch with cameo from Charlton Heston. Generational.

[@adamdarmstaedter1256]

I have an awesome T-shirt I got at the Tulsa gun show that has Val as Doc and it says "Say When."

[@2A.Freedom]

The gunfight at the ok corral is a pretty famous event.

[@logan32086]

Big Nose Kate, Doc's girlfriend, said many years later that Doc came back from that shootout and put his face in his hands saying "it was just horrible."

[@THOMMGB]

A damn fine western is Open Range with Kevin Costner and Robert Duval. Directed by Kevin Costner.

[@pwitherspoon100]

Some of my favorite cowboy movies are: John Wayne in The Cowboys, Big Jake and True Grit.🎉 Clint Eastwood in The Outlaw Josie Wales, and The Unforgiven. Young Guns with Emilio Estevez is a great one too. Kurt Russel also played in Overboard which i loved.

[@broodhunter21]

Laudnum was a 10% solution of Opium in alcohol. Addiction was high. Overdoses, also high. It was used for everything from teething babies to menstral cramps and everything else you can imagine.

[@nathanmoss3347]

"You're no daisy at all, Johnny!" Doc wasn't taunting Johnny. He was WANTING Johnny to kill him, too. Better to die a legend, taking out your rival as he takes you out, than dying without your boots on in a Colorado sanitormium.

[@mattnewmark7607]

THANK YOU. Had to scroll way too far to find this. Doc tried the same thing at the OK Corral "You're a daisy if you do." I've yet to see a reactor to this movie inherently get that Doc wants to die.

[@nathanmoss3347]

@@mattnewmark7607I think most people don't realize this because.... well, they're healthy! Having a fatal disease and dying a little bit a time sucks. Might as well go out swinging and doing the things you love (gambling, getting into gunfights with the Earps, etc). And if you happen to die in a shootout? Perfect. Now you'll live forever in wild west history. Healthy people don't typically understand this mindset.

[@Jose-h4y4z]

Doc was the best part of this movie. Thank you for highlighting that. Great reaction!👍🏾

[@magiegainey5036]

My favorite comment... Wen (sp ?) saying “Where's the cops?!? There's no cops back then?!?“. So cute! 😊

[@NetanelWorthy]

That tombstone you read at the beginning is an actual tombstone in Tombstone Arizona. I’ve seen it when I visited. I don’t think it’s a real tombstone though. But it’s there.

[@kschneyer]

Of the 5+ full-length film treatments of the events in Tombstone in 1888, this one is the closest to the actual facts. Wyatt Earp has been played variously by Henry Fonda, Burt Lancaster, and Kevin Costner. There’s even an episode of Star Trek:TOS and an episode classic Doctor Who about it. The exact events of Wyatt’s vendetta against the Cochise County Cowboys are heavily disputed.

[@EternalDreamer85]

His first wife actually was addicted to that medicine she kept taking. It had opium in it. If you look into the medicine it was horrible. I took her scenes as her being addicted, and her 'headaches' were her coming down.

[@leniobarcelos1770]

43:37 Nope, he's not joking. The real Doc Holliday did, in fact, have those types of feelings for a cousin of his. It was mutual.

[@jtoland2333]

And common back then

[@tec52]

FYI, Some of the movie was actually filmed in the real Tombstone

[@adgato75]

Holy crap. I didn't see a single comment from any idiot about "hucklebearers". That's nice.

[@nluna75]

Kevin Jarre was the original director for this movie and had a lot of issues as his original script was being changed. Stallone suggested to Kurt Russell he hire Georgo P Cosmatos as Stallone used him for First Blood part 2 while Stallone Ghost directed that movie. Kurt Russell agreed to use him while he ghost directed Tombstone. Kurt Russell promised Cosmatos he wouldn't tell anyone who really directed Tombstone until after Cosmatos passed away. Apparently Kurt has said in interviews there is a much longer directors cut he's been working on for years that expands on everyone's story. Kevin Costner was set to star in this movie but there was creative differences, Kevin Costner left and ended making the movie Wyatt Earp. Other great westerns from the 80s and 90s.........Silverado, Young Guns 1 and 2, The Quick and the Dead, Quigley Down Under and Unforgiven.

[@tengenuzui8425]

Maddie was addicted to opiates, and refused assistance from anyone trying to call her out on it or send her to a doctor .

[@tjmaverick1765]

Another Western I recommend is Broken Trail, with Robert Duvall.

[@TDoughter23]

Regarding Doc loving his first cousin, historically it wasn’t that odd to marry one’s first cousin, though they were at the tail end of it when Doc was alive.

[@keiththompson7280]

the other movie in the 90's with Kevin in Wyatt Earp holds closer to the truth .

[@UnclePengy]

The Cowboys gang, aka the Cochise County Cowboys, were called that somewhat tongue-in-cheek, because of their reputation as cattle rustlers, not because they were actual cowboys or cowhands. I think you're the first reactor I've seen who knew what laudanum was. The tombstone said, "Here lies Lester Moor, four slugs from a .44. No Les, no more." It's a bad joke, but it was an actual tombstone. The Tombstone set is actually "Old Tucson", a movie studio outside of Tucson, Arizona. (About 70 miles from the actual Tombstone.) Wyatt wasn't married, they were just living together. A lot of this film is factual, even the mustaches (ESPECIALLY the mustaches!), except they make it look like the attack on Virgil and Morgan happened on the same night and right after the OK Corral shootout, when in reality they were several months apart. Oh, and they didn't actually wear red sashes. That was made up for the film so you could tell the good guys from the bad guys. "I'm surprised they're so spread out." At their height, there were some two to three hundred members in the gang across Cochise and Pima counties in southern Arizona, an area of roughly 17,000 square miles. "How'd they get badges?" Yes, some of the Cowboys gang teamed up with Sheriff Behan to go against the Earp's posse. Val Kilmer should have won an Oscar for this movie.

[@irishmedic]

The reckoning is more a punishment for misdeeds. Can be biblical. revenge is personal. i like your guys videos, you don't blur out great lines. Absolute best line movie! "Lets have a spelling contest". so funny.

[@diamondstud322]

You should really check out “Lonesome Dove” a Western mini-series, just a brilliant story with excellent acting. Robert Duval and Tommy Lee Jones were brilliant.

[@lessaqueensrider8571]

The movie Waytt Earp with ke3vin Costner came out at the same as tombstone had more back story and was just a good, of course.

[@douglassnyder214]

Doc's woman, "Big Nose Kate", Mary Katherine Horony Cummings, was a very interesting person in her own right. That first scene with Ed Bailey did not happen like that. Doc claimed self defense and did not run. He was arrested. The town didn't have a jail, so he was put up in a hotel room with guards outside the door and window. Ed Bailey was a popular man, and mob formed outside the hotel threatening to overtake the marshal and his men so they could lynch Doc. Big Nose Kate stole two horses from a stable, and set fire to a building across the street. The mob broke up to put out the fire. During the confusion, she approached Doc's guards and drew a gun, liberating Doc. She was orphaned in Iowa, sent to relatives, then sent to foster parents who abused her and ran away at age 16. She traveled the steam boats on the Mississippi as sort of a con woman. We don't know much about those years, but at age 19 we know she was widowed and she lost a baby to yellow fever. She worked as a "sporting girl" in a brothel in Dodge City owned by Wyatt's sister-in-law, Bessie Earp (wife to oldest brother James). She met Wyatt, and it became a family scandal when they announced their love. She was sent away. She met Doc in Fort Griffin, Texas. Following the Ed Bailey incident, they fled back to Dodge City, where Kate introduced Wyatt & Doc. He promised to give up gambling and become an honest man. He opened a dentist office. She promised to quit whoring and be an honest woman, forsaking all others. They both tried to give up their vices, and they both failed. They were both really good at their vices, and they both were able to make a lot of money doing them. Kate was never able to give up the money and the freedom she bought. She was known for being mercurial. She was very seductive and manipulative, usually getting what she wanted. She was know for being a vicious drunk. Doc would tolerate a lot of abuse from her, but when the abuse reached a certain point, Doc would beat her. When they made up, is was also passionate, and sometimes public to people's discomfort. At the time of most of the movie, Kate didn't live in Tombstone. Doc and her took a break after an incident where Doc beat her more than usual. Behan and Milt Joyce (owner of the Oriental Saloon) convinced her to testify that Doc robbed a stagecoach, an offense that would have gotten him hanged. But Wyatt found a dozen witnesses that gave Doc an alibi, and the case was thrown out. Kate later claimed Behan had tricked her. They eventually made up again, but they never lived together after that. She became a madam and opened a brothel, visiting Doc often. She was in Doc's room at the time of the shootout. When Doc moved to Colorado, Kate followed and visited him regularly until he died.

[@markcarpenter6020]

Doc acted the way he did because of a medical misdiagnosis. It's an actual psychological condition named after him called doc Holliday syndrome. When he was first diagnosed with tuberculosis they gave him 6 months to live. Well when he passed that 6 months he felt all the way down to his subconscious that he was already dead so he had no fear of death. It's also happened to people who survived disasters or soldiers who survive when their whole unit is wiped out. Also his girlfriend did care about him. However she knew doc was gonna die no matter what. In that time TB had no cure and no effective treatment. Doc was going to die no matter what, so she just wanted him to enjoy what time he had left.

[@samanthahatcher750]

I think it’s safe to say ages a fan of Cowboy movies!