Ep. 153 Earp Adjacent Westerns

The myth of Wyatt Earp ignited at the ascent of cinema, his alleged
Old West exploits embellished on celluloid during the Silent Era so
that he was a full-fledged American legend come the golden age of
Hollywood. Earp westerns were such an established staple that Law
and Order, the first movie to star a surrogate Wyatt, was already
out in 1932. All the familiar elements were there - Tombstone, Doc
Holliday, the gunfight at the O.K. Corral - but the names of the
players were different. From fairly straight biographical
retellings including The Arizonian and Dodge City to radical
revisions like Sam Fuller's Forty Guns and Edward Dmytryk's
Warlock, the "Wyatt Earp movie without Wyatt Earp" has developed
into an obscure but crowded subgenre. Who could identify such a
subgenre but artist/Old West historian David Lambert, returning to
The Pink Smoke to share his thoughts on the cinematic legacy of the
killin'est peace officer who ever lived. Why so many thinly-veiled
adaptations of the gunfighter's printed legend? How do they stack
up next to the official versions, like John Ford's My Darling
Clementine? Come for a nice long dive into these and other
inquiries, stay for Lambert's killer Andy Devine impression. Hey!
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