This movie has more trash than a garbage scow.
Doc Holliday died of tuberculosis, not by the gun of Pat Garrett.
This positively infantile preoccupation with bosoms!Terry-Thomas about US 1963.Hasnt changed much!
In that case I suggest you never watch Gladiator.
Never defend crap with 'It's just a movie'
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Some movies do play fast and loose with history but usually it does not interfere with the story. However, in this one, there is no evidence that I know of that Doc Holiday ever met Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. Also, just like in the Wyatt Earp TV series, the actors who played Doc Holiday were a LOT older than Doc lived to be in real life. That would absolutely not be accepted by the movie going audience today. Westerns have to meet a very high standard of accuracy today. I love a good western and am usually the first in line to see one. Who came up with that screenplay?
I wish I knew what the actors in this movie really thought about what they were having to do. Probably one of the reasons the old studio system died. Since current evidence shows that Howard Hughes was becoming more eccentric by then, I wonder if he did this project just to defy the studio system and local decency boards to make a point? Looks like it took awhile but he made his point.
I have no idea about western history, but if he was going to make things up about famous figures, he could at least make it interesting! This has to be the most boring western I ever tried to watch. I thought that back in the 80s when Z did their retrospective on Hughes' films, and I think so now in 2016. Fast forwarding my way through it to the nest movie (that I read about all the time here and have never seen that I remember--Baby Face). This is 2 strikes for The Outlaw. One more and I won't even try to see why it's played and talked about...and I'm a fan of Hughes ever since I read Citizen Hughes way back....fascinating man.
shareAmen. I watched it one time and only because of the "history" of the movie and it was a struggle to get through it. I think it was one of the TCM movies hosted by Nick Clooney. It is certainly on my "not going to waste my time watching it again" list. As I said, it looks like Howard Hughes was going off the rails and this is the same time, I think, that he was running RKO into the ground. Rest in peace, Mr. Hughes.
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