Henry Fonda, Victor Mature & Walter Brennan in John Ford's "My Darling Clementine" (1946)

In 1882 (a year after the actual gunfight at the O.K. Corral on October 26, 1881), Wyatt (Henry Fonda), Morgan (Ward Bond), Virgil (Tim Holt), and James Earp (Don Garner) are driving cattle to California, and encounter Old Man Clanton (Walter Brennan) and his sons, Billy (John Ireland) and Ike (Grant Withers). Clanton offers to buy their herd, but they curtly refuse to sell. When the Earps learn about the nearby boom town of Tombstone, the older brothers ride in, leaving the youngest, James, as watchman. The threesome soon learns that Tombstone is a lawless town without a marshal. Wyatt proves the only man in the town willing to face drunken Indian Charlie (Charles Stevens) shooting at the townspeople. When the brothers return to their camp, they find their cattle rustled and James murdered.
Wyatt returns to Tombstone. Seeking to avenge James's murder, he takes the open position of town marshal and encounters the hot-tempered Doc Holliday (Victor Mature) and scurrilous Clanton gang several times. Clementine Carter (Cathy Downs), Doc's former love interest, arrives from his hometown of Boston. Chihuahua (Linda Darnell), Doc's hot-tempered Latina love interest, sings in the local saloon. Doc, who is suffering badly from tuberculosis, is unhappy with her arrival. He tells her to return to Boston or he will leave Tombstone. Clementine stays, so Doc leaves for Tucson, Arizona. Wyatt notices Chihuahua is wearing a silver cross that had been taken from his brother, James, the night he'd been killed. She claims Doc gave it to her.
Wyatt chases down Doc, with whom he has had a testy relationship. Doc forces a shoot-out, ending with Wyatt shooting a pistol out of Doc's hand. The two return to Tombstone, where after being questioned, Chihuahua reveals the silver cross was actually given to her by Billy Clanton. During the interrogation Billy shoots Chihuahua through a window and takes off on horseback, but is wounded by Wyatt. Wyatt directs his brother Virgil to pursue him. The chase leads to the Clanton homestead, where Billy dies of his wounds. Old Man Clanton then shoots Virgil in the back in cold blood.
In town, a reluctant Doc is persuaded to operate on Chihuahua. Hope swells for her successful recovery. The Clantons then arrive, toss Virgil's body on the street and announce they will be waiting for the rest of the Earps at the O.K. Corral.
Chihuahua dies and Doc decides to join the Earps, walking alongside Wyatt and Morgan to the corral at sunup. A gunfight ensues in which all of the Clantons are killed, as is Doc.
Wyatt and Morgan resign as law enforcers. Morgan heads West in a horse and buggy. Wyatt bids Clementine farewell at the school house, wistfully promising that if he ever returns he will look her up. Mounting his horse, he muses aloud "Ma'am, I sure like that name...Clementine," and rides off to join his brother.
A 1946 American Black & White Western film directed by John Ford, produced by Samuel G. Engel, screenplay by Engel and Winston Miller, story by Sam Hellman, cinematography by Joseph MacDonald, starring Henry Fonda, Linda Darnell, Victor Mature, Cathy Downs, Walter Brennan, Tim Holt, Ward Bond, Don Garner, Grant Withers, John Ireland, Alan Mowbray, Roy Roberts, Jane Darwell, J. Farrell MacDonald, and Russell Simpson.
Much of the film was shot in Monument Valley, a scenic desert region straddling the Arizona-Utah border used in other John Ford movies. After seeing a preview screening of the film, 20th Century Fox studio boss Darryl F. Zanuck thought Ford's original cut was too long and had some weak spots, so he had Lloyd Bacon shoot new footage and heavily edit the film. Zanuck had Bacon cut 30 minutes from the film.
The final script of the movie varies considerably from historical fact to create additional dramatic conflict and character. Clementine Carter is not a historical person, and in this script, she appears to be an amalgam of Big Nose Kate and Josephine Earp. The Earps were also never cowboys, drovers, or cattle owners.
Matt Bailey, "If there is one film that deserves every word of praise ever uttered or written about it, it is John Ford's My Darling Clementine. Perhaps the greatest film in a career full of great films, arguably the finest achievement in a rich and magnificent genre, and undoubtedly the best version of one of America's most enduring myths, the film is an undeniable and genuine classic."
In the British Film Institute's 2012 Sight & Sound polls, seven critics and five directors named it one of their 10 favorite films. Roger Ebert included it in his list of The Great Movies, "one of the sweetest and most good-hearted of all Westerns". Director Sam Peckinpah considered this his favorite Western, and paid homage to it in several of his Westerns, including "Major Dundee" (1965) and "The Wild Bunch" (1969). The Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa cited this as one of his 100 favorite films. Similarly, director Hayao Miyazaki called it one of his 10 favorite movies.

[@docholliday1970]

My Darling Clementine is one of my Classic favorites of All ❤ Time. Thanks, Donald P. Borcher for sharing!

[@jorgemontefusco650]

@@docholliday1970 Watch Brennan play the evil and despicable Judge in “The Westerner” with Gary Cooper. Brennan just oozes evil. That’s the way to act.

[@robertwilliams533]

One of my favorite Westerns. Both Fonda and Brennan are terrific in their roles. 🇺🇸 Happy 4th!

[@moontan.]

👍👍 Finally! Someone releases this great movie in its original aspect ratio plus great sharpness & clarity! Thanks!❤

[@miketackabery7521]

What's wrong with me that I've never seen this before?! Spectacularly great and beautiful picture. A work of art.

[@willieluncheonette5843]

One of the very greatest American films of the 40's. Stone cold masterpiece.

[@thinlet1]

Every scene is beautiful, stunning!

[@gouhanki5181]

This is the fabulous pre-release cut version of the film, a few different scenes, not seen in the release

[@Rahatlakhoom]

John Ford. It doesn't get any better than that.

[@roberthevern6169]

No, it doesn't!

[@MTknitter22]

I think the best portrayal of Doc Holiday was Victor Mature. What a powerful performance full of little subtleties.

[@stevetessier8532]

A lifelong favorite film..Many Thanks..!!

[@thesarge4457]

Henry Fonda shakes a pretty good leg at the dance. THE SARGE

[@mikedodd5178]

They do not make them like this anymore 😮😮😊😅 Brilliant..

[@anthonyclarke860]

The Randolph Scott and version along with Dark hair can of preaches eating actor Roy Calhoun version is better

[@miketackabery7521]

​@@anthonyclarke860😂 nothing is ever better than John Ford.

[@GlendaT-m5v]

One of the best movies in Western I love love love this movie thank you for having it or I can watch this again and again ❤❤❤❤

[@jorgemontefusco650]

Walter Brennan was a superb actor.

[@MTknitter22]

Yes. Thank goodness he received all the awards he so deserved! This movie has the greats!!

[@immaterialimmaterial5195]

Wow - completely absorbing. Wonderful work of art.

[@jtcbrt]

"Mac, you ever been in love?" "No. I been a bartender all my life."

[@whortle]

One of the great movies. Thanks.

[@catsamazing338]

That was great ! Gotta love the black and white. Story line a bit weird but great actors. 👍

[@nicolettapasquini6614]

Bellissimo film John Ford con ottimi attori nella leggenda di ok corral Ford più romantico ❤❤❤❤

[@MTknitter22]

The Western genre is all ours, American through and through. Awesome.

[@Roger-b8x]

Doc Holiday didn't die at the Ok Coral -He died in Hospital of tuberculosis.

[@rubiconklbrutorowman7577]

When I see Henry Fonda, Victor Mature, I don't' know much Walter Brenna, I know I would likely enjoy entertaining western cowboy movie!

[@SurprisedAnacondaSnake-rh1qt]

Brilliant, enjoyed every minute

[@ReRiderChi]

Thanks Mr B!

[@herrbauer]

This is the longer "pre-release" version of My Darling Clementine, before the producer made changes which he thought improved the film, to be shown in theaters.

[@RoyNaicker]

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[@judywilkerson8682]

Another great movie Ive passed up many times. I really enjoyed it .

[@LorraineBarratt-d6r]

Thank you 😊 for sharing . From the UK

[@tritom1955]

All around great movie...took a few liberties with historical facts...but a wonderful movie, none-the-less.

[@roberthevern6169]

Thanks, DPB! Another great movie for the 4th of July!

[@trapezemusic]

A great film with a great cast.

[@padraiggluck2980]

Wyatt, Morgan, and Virgil…Walter Brennan (whom I like when he’s playing a good character) should have known that you don’t mess with the Earps.

[@michaelkostiuk1009]

Great movie. First one minute fifty six seconds -no sound- then good to enjoy. Not a documentary. This not how it really happened. Never let the facts ruin a good old Hollywood movie.

[@MTknitter22]

Thank you!!

[@brendashaffer8315]

Loved it ❤thanks

[@jasonstack122]

Like all the 1080p for Western & Film Noir

[@alfredocorreia9385]

ALÉM DESSE CLÁSSICO DE 1946, ONZE ANOS DEPOIS PRODUZIRAM OUTRO GRANDE CLÁSSICO COM A MESMA TEMÁTICA DESSE FAMOSO DUELO: "SEM LEI E SEM ALMA"(TÍTULO AQUI NO BRASIL), DE 1957 COM DOIS SUPER ASTROS: BURT LANCASTER E KIRK DOUGLAS, ALÉM DA PARTICIPAÇÃO DO FUTURO SUPER ASTRO DO WESTERN: LEE VAN CLEFF!!!

[@spockboy]

Historically inaccurate but very entertaining.

[@roberthevern6169]

See comment below

[@timlabell]

I just watched a movie with Randolph Scott Scott identical to this movie.

[@jamyla]

Yes it was called "Frontier Marshall", made in 1939, with Cesar Romero as Doc Holliday.

[@peterhallock9486]

Wonderful movie who gives a hoot about the inaccuracies. I wasn't there😂.

[@MTknitter22]

There are so many touching and funny moments in this movie. Hey Mac, you ever been in love? Nope, been a bartender all my life… LOL. 😂

[@winonamassingill7895]

There’s Ward Bond. So many familiar actors!!! 😅😅😅😅

[@SteveLuetkehans]

Not a Factual movie but entertaining. Supposedly John Ford made this movie based on an interview with Wyatt Earp himself. Doubtful.

[@MobiusMinded]

True. Ford knew Earp. John Wayne met him. Wyatt is his last years acted as a consultant for some Westerns. He was living and passed away in Los Angeles.

[@madlenellul3430]

Watch the Man who shot Liberty Vallance and you’ll learn ‘when the legend becomes fact - print the legend’.. explains this western.. and Doc’s heroic demise. 🥰

[@georgemoore7186]

I am right at the beginning of the movie, apparently the cattle are in pretty poor condition and Wyatt is talking about feeding them when they get to "grass country" I often wondered about these Cattle drives in the old west, they intimated that they could fatten the cattle when they came to grass.....but the Cattle would be full of worms and no amount of grass would or could fatten them up, I can't see the cattle being wormed on a regular basis, it wouldn't be practical to worm 3000 + head and it would be time consuming, how did they do it?

[@bethbartlett5692]

John Ireland, so young. 1:07:11 (the dance)

[@russellyoung8295]

Unbelievably untrue... But, great filmmaking.

[@MTknitter22]

Well many of the great films do stray from the truth but historic great filmmaking anyway!

[@winonamassingill7895]

Man, what a bunch of bullies. Doc Holiday included or perhaps the biggest bully of them all. 😅😅

[@aspetm3846]

Good story.

[@fredtogawa4908]

Not factual, Doc Holiday did not die at the OK Coral gunfight.

[@angloaust1575]

Distorted storyline About holiday Dentist not a doctor And didn't die at ok corral A Ford error!

[@GeneRogers-di6cl]

Blame John Ford. Doc Holiday died in bed with his boots (off) in Colorado. It’s still a great western movie.

[@XX-qd6ke]

It's referred to as 'artistic license'...

[@roberthevern6169]

​@@XX-qd6kethank you for saving me the trouble!

[@GeneRogers-di6cl]

@@XX-qd6ke Duh 🙄!

[@XX-qd6ke]

@GeneRogers-di6cl --- That comment was for the benefit of the person who posted the original comment...not you. My apologies that you somehow took offense to it, Mr. Know It all.

[@padraiggluck2980]

“You ever been stung by a dead bee?”

[@SherryPowell-rz6hd]

Good movie but more a story than actual fact

[@ebertbeeman4382]

James Earp was Wyatt's older brother.

[@Josemariaamoedofarinas-rx7lw]

El maestro ford firmando otra de sus joyas

[@rosalinablanco7764]

En español por favor!!

[@valerieweimer9459]

HOW can Ford have filmed such inaccuracies? Doc Holiday died in a hotel in Glenwood Springs, CO

[@miketackabery7521]

John Ford was one of the greatest cinema directors. He wasn't a documentary maker.

[@rodneyhirsch2340]

Victor Mature totally wrong for the part. But good nonetheless. Considering most don’t know history it passes unnoticed.

[@fredneecher1746]

Indeed, this was not a documentary but a movie, and a brilliant one at that. Real life - not so glamorous.

[@keithsullivan-lt4nk]

at 20 minutes look at the bar tenders glass. thats no shot glass his is 4 times bigger

[@winonamassingill7895]

I think Earp is an unfortunate name considering what I think of when I hear the word Earp. 😅

[@mariannekenton4205]

Why no sound at the beginning?

[@cheevers304]

Song Copyright

[@Petraglyph777]

first 1:35 has no sound... otherwise all is well

[@robertguest5215]

Historicaly completetly incorrect....

[@irmaquevedo6947]

Por favor en español

[@brendashaffer8315]

Classic

[@franciscovaldivia3088]

Si no es en español me camvio

[@terryburns184]

Classic film for sure but almost certainly the most inaccurate historical film ever. For instance James Earp, the first to die in the film at 18...... actually died in 1925 not 1880!!!

[@fredneecher1746]

So may people don't understand the concept of art.

[@RobertoAlmeida-qi9qx]

Uau😮

[@keithsullivan-lt4nk]

dance hall girl doesnt look like a big nose kate

[@billyclarke5888]

Very overated , very inaccurate worst of ok corral films.walter Brennan excellent.

[@redtobertshateshandles]

Long and boring.

[@dtaylor939]

Rude

[@jackbickel4655]

@@dtaylor939 Dumb and rude

[@miketackabery7521]

Some peoples been playing games so long they got no patience for great art. What happens when you got attention deficit.