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My Darling Clementine: Directed by John Ford. With Henry Fonda, Linda Darnell, Victor Mature, Cathy Downs. After their cattle are stolen and their brother murdered, the Earp brothers have a score to settle with the Clanton family.
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- Drama, Romance, Western
- John Ford
- 1946-11
My Darling Clementine. My Darling Clementine is a 1946 American Western film directed by John Ford and starring Henry Fonda as Wyatt Earp during the period leading up to the gunfight at the O.K. Corral. The ensemble cast also features Victor Mature (as Doc Holliday ), Linda Darnell, Walter Brennan, Tim Holt, Cathy Downs and Ward Bond .
- $2 million
- December 3, 1946
- Samuel G. Engel
- Cyril J. Mockridge (uncredited)
Percy Montross; Barker Bradford. " Oh, My Darling Clementine " (or simply " Clementine ") is a traditional American, sometime comic, Western folk ballad in trochaic meter usually credited to Percy Montross (or Montrose) (1884), although it is sometimes credited to Barker Bradford . Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of ...
- Traditional
- Percy Montross; Barker Bradford
- English
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Oct 26, 1997 · In the opening scenes of John Ford's greatest Western, “My Darling Clementine” (1946), he and his brothers are driving cattle east to Kansas. Wyatt, Virgil and Morgan leave their kid brother James in charge of the herd and go into town for a shave and a beer. As they ride down the main street of Tombstone, under a vast and lowering evening ...
Canny and coolly confident, My Darling Clementine is a definitive dramatization of the Wyatt Earp legend that shoots from the hip and hits its target in breezy style. In the middle of a long ...
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- Henry Fonda
- John Ford
- Western
Jun 20, 2023 · The Beginnings. In 1863, the lyrics to the song “Down by the River Liv’d a Maiden,” were a precursor to “Oh My Darling, Clementine.”. Some believe the melody for the song stems from a ...
1882. The four Earp brothers are driving cattle through Arizona towards California when they stop outside the town of Tombstone. While Wyatt, Virgil and Morgan are in the town their cattle is stolen and James is murdered. Wyatt suspects that the Clanton family were responsible but has no proof. Wyatt volunteers for and is offered the position ...