My Darling Clementine (1946)
When the Clantons steal his family’s cattle and kill his brother, Wyatt Earp signs on as sheriff of Tombstone and vows to bring them in.
Cast: Henry Fonda, Linda Darnell, Victor Mature, Cathy Downs Dir: John Ford BW-97 mins, TV-PG. 8:00 PM EDT, TCM.
Tomorrow night is Wyatt Earp night on TCM with this classic leading off the evening. !957′s Gunfight at the OK Corral with Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas is on at 10:00 PM.
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There is a tendency to remember Victor Mature as beefcake rather than an actor (especially if you’ve seen DeMille’s Samson and Delilah, but this movie puts quits to any such thoughts. It is also a reminder that John Ford could tell more story in an hour and a half than James Cameron (or pretty much any other director now working in H-wood) can in two and a half hours.
It’s said that John Ford always shot Wyatt Earp sitting in a tipped-back chair at some point or another, when he put him in a movie. This was because he knew Earp in his old age, and had observed his habit of sitting that way.
Loved old Walter Brennan and that bullwhip…
One of my favorite Westerns, I watched this tonight and the thought hit me – why wasn’t Walter Brennan in more John Ford movies?
Leave it to Robert Osborne to read my mind – he just happened to address this after the film. Shooting a stunt scene on horseback in “Clementine,” Ford became increasingly impatient with Brennan. He asked him if he had “Ever mounted a horse before” and Brennan shot back “No, but I’ve won three Oscars.” Back in the day no one – no one – talked back to John Ford. “My Darling Clementine” was the last film Brennan and Ford made together.