After success cleaning up Dodge City Wyatt Earp moves to Tombstone Arizona and wishes to get rich in obscurity. He meets his brothers there as well as his old friend Doc Holliday. A band of outlaws that call themselves The Cowboys are causing problems in the region with various acts of random violence and inevitably come into confrontation with Holliday and the Earps which leads to a shoot-out at the OK Corral.
Review
A terrific Western a thoughtful screenplay uniformly fine performances Russell has never been better quality widescreen cinematography and a knockout character performance by Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday that should have won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar. This is a winner all the way.
Kilmer has only 31 scenes but manages to steal every one of them with a solid beautifully thought and felt impersonation of a Southern gentleman owing a bit to Tennessee Williams famous drawl. His constantly drunken state "I have two guns one for each of you." and his slow sad death from tuberculosis are masterworks of acting technique. Even if you dont like westerns see it for his remarkable performance.