Joel McCrea was 50 when he made this movie. The real Wyatt Earp, when he took the job in Wichita, Kansas, was 28. "He only shot to wound those fellas" is also claptrap. This movie is filled with this "made for kids" dialog and fight scenes. Wrongs are righted, the bad guys are caught, and all is right with the world. TV was a booming place for TV westerns in the mid 50's, and this was right out of that world. Sorry, but this film is just plain laughable.
It has all the usual characters-- well dressed saloon bosses, the boozy newspaper man with a secret past, the town marshal who has a yellow streak a mile wide. Cattle barons and cow punchers who feel it's their duty to tear a town apart. All the "saloon girls: are wearing fancy duds without a hair out of place and perfect makeup-- but they don't show cleavage. Yeah, right.... Pass.
It has all the usual characters-- well dressed saloon bosses, the boozy newspaper man with a secret past, the town marshal who has a yellow streak a mile wide. Cattle barons and cow punchers who feel it's their duty to tear a town apart. All the "saloon girls: are wearing fancy duds without a hair out of place and perfect makeup-- but they don't show cleavage. Yeah, right.... Pass.