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The film was based on Stuart Lake's book Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal, published two years after Earp's death in 1929. Prior to his death, Earp and his wife Josephine ("Sadie") went to great lengths to keep Josephine's name out of the book, and she threatened litigation to prevent her name from being used in the film.
- 20th Century Fox
Feb 19, 2024 · Frontier Marshal served as the origin story for several Hollywood films, as well as the popular 1955–61 TV series The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, starring Hugh O’Brian. Wyatt Earp: The Life Behind the Legend (1997, by Casey Tefertiller)
- Doug Hocking
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Lake's biography was adapted as the basis for at least three movies: Frontier Marshal (1934); Frontier Marshal (1939); and My Darling Clementine (1946). The 1955 television series, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, was also based on Lake's book; its success made Lake into one of the first television moguls. [3]
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Based on the book Wyatt Earp, Frontier Marshal by Stuart N. Lake (New York, 1931).
- Allan Dwan
- Randolph Scott
English. Frontier Marshal is a 1934 American Pre-Code Western film directed by Lewis Seiler and starring George O'Brien. Produced by Fox Film and Sol M. Wurtzel, the film is the first based on Stuart N. Lake 's enormously popular but largely fictitious "biography" of Wyatt Earp, Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal. A second version of the film, also ...
- January 19, 1934 (U.S.)
- Sol M. Wurtzel
Jun 25, 2016 · DIRECTOR: Allan Dwan; PRODUCER: Sol M. Wurtzel; WRITERS: screenplay by Sam Hellman based on Stuart N. Lake's book, Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal; CINEMATOGRAPHER: Charles G. Clarke CAST: Randolph Scott, Nancy Kelly, Cesar Romero, Binnie Barnes, John Carradine, Edward Norris, Ward Bond, Lon Chaney, Jr., Chris Pin-Martin, Joe Sawyer, Charles ...
Frontier Marshal: Directed by Allan Dwan. With Randolph Scott, Nancy Kelly, Cesar Romero, Binnie Barnes. Wyatt Earp agrees to become marshal and establish order in Tombstone in this very romanticized version of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
