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When Wyatt is patrolling the train, he constantly checks the corners and nooks by aggressively pointing his shotgun. However, the shotgun is not cocked on either barrel. Even if someone would have appeared, Earp would not have had time to cock the hammers before being shot/contested by the opponent.
The sweat on Wyatt's shirt changes while working in the garden.
Wyatt Earp did not carry a Colt Peacemaker or use a conventional holster rig at the OK Corral. His preferred weapon was a Smith & Wesson American .44 (nickel plated and scroll engraved), which he carried in a holster hidden in a pocket of his full-length overcoat.
When the workmen are laying track for the railroad, a rail is dropped into place using rail tongs, then 2 workmen immediately begin hammering in the spikes. No one tries to measure or position the rail properly before attaching it to the tie. Plus, the end of the rail is right at the edge of the tie they are nailing it to, meaning the end of the next rail placed would be unsupported.
After Virgil is ambushed, he is shown lying in bed with the doctor removing shotgun pellets from his right arm. In real life, it was his left arm that was wounded and crippled for the rest of his life, due to the doctor having to remove several inches of shattered bone.
In the beginning of the movie (1865, the Civil War's end), the Earp family is sitting around a table talking about moving to California. Martha Earp is supposedly going to be staying in Iowa instead of moving with the family so she can marry Jimmy Jorgenson. Such a dilemma is moot as 10-year-old Martha Earp died in 1856, 9 years prior to this scene.
Johnny-behind-the-deuce is consistently referred to as "Tommy-behind-the-deuce". This is verified by reading "Frontier Marshall-Wyatt Earp" by Stuart N. Lake, an authorized biography of Wyatt Earp's life. (See pages 246, 250, 354, and 357.)
When Wyatt, Ed, and Bat are shooting buffalo near the beginning of the movie, the buffalo are clearly dummies. When the last buffalo tumbles to the ground, its horns bounce up and down, indicating they're made from rubber.
During the final shootout of the Vendetta Ride in the canyon (which takes place in 1882), at about 2hrs 58 mins, a cowboy shooting at Wyatt Earp with a Winchester rifle has a modern wristwatch on his left wrist. Wristwatches weren't worn by men until British Army officers started using them in battle to coordinate actions a few years after this event took place, and they did not look like modern wristwatches; they were essentially a standard covered pocket watch fixed to a leather strap.
In the film's first scene, Wyatt is shown sipping coffee in a darkened room. A heavy cloud of steam is shown coming from the cup, but this indicates that there is no real coffee inside; actual coffee that hot would badly burn his lips and mouth if he were to drink it.
In the bar where Wyatt throws a pool ball at Ed Ross, Wyatt has a revolver tucked in his belt. It is still there when he straps Ross's holster on his waist. When Wyatt and Sally go outside of the bar to watch the fireworks, only his new holstered pistol remains.
When Wyatt is patrolling the train, he constantly checks the corners and nooks by aggressively pointing his shotgun. However, the shotgun is not cocked on either barrel. Even if someone would have appeared, Earp would not have had time to cock the hammers before being shot/contested by the opponent.
Wyatt wears a so-called Hollywood style pistol belt, which keeps the holster permanently positioned at his right side. Such holsters were not used in the Old West; they are a product of the movie industry. Actual gun belts of the period slipped through a loop on the back of the holster, which allowed the holster to be positioned anywhere along the belt's length. This correct type is worn by most of the film's other characters.
In the beginning of the movie, the Earp boys are in a cornfield. It is tall, green, and planted in rows, clearly the work of a modern corn planter. Corn in the mid-1800s would have been spindly and planted by hand in "hills", not rows.
The telegram about Ed Masterson is written in block print letters and with a ballpoint pen, which did not exist then. Telegrams always were written in cursive writing with a fountain pen.
When Wyatt is refereeing the boxing fight, there are American flags present that show 50 stars, a design not used until 1960. In the latter part of Wyatt Earp's life, the flag had 48 stars.
A sign on the side of a building advertised Clabber Girl Baking Powder. Although Clabber Baking Powder was a brand started in the mid-1800s in Terre Haute, Indiana, the brand wasn't named Clabber Girl until 1923.
When a gunman on horseback shoots down the chandelier Wyatt scares off the gunmen by firing 4 shots, when he faces down the last rider 2 bullets are visible -only one should be visible as the 5th bullet is aligned with the barrel.
When Wyatt brings a prisoner to jail, mountains can be seen behind the buildings. The scene is set in Kansas, which has no mountains, but most of the movie was filmed in Las Vegas.
During the performance of HMS Pinafore, an actor playing a British navy 'tar' is holding the Union Jack upside-down. The red angled cross has a larger white stripe below it than the one above it; the larger white stripe should be on top.