
Event Details
In person: actor Peter Weller
John Sturges (The Magnificent Seven, 1960) directed this vivid re-telling of the classic Western set in 1880s Arizona. Burt Lancaster is Marshal Wyatt Earp, who partners with his brothers to clean up the town of Tombstone. Helped by loyal friend Doc Holliday (Kirk Douglas), they find themselves embroiled in a deadly conflict with the Clanton family. The second film to team Lancaster and Douglas, Gunfight was nominated for its film editing and sound recording and features a rousing score by four-time Oscar winner Dimitri Tiomkin (High Noon, 1952), with a memorable title song performed by Frankie Laine. In 1967, Sturges continued the story with Hour of the Gun, starring James Garner as Earp and Jason... Robards as Holliday.
Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation.
1957 | 122 min. | USA | Color | English | VistaVision
DIRECTED BY: John Sturges
WRITTEN BY: Leon Uris
WITH: Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming, Jo Van Fleet