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To: A Navy Vet

clint eastwood in The Good The Bad and The Ugly

The Father and Son shootout in the movie with Sharron STone, Decaprio and Gene Hackman- can’t remember name- The father shoots his son and the son says soemthign like “Wow, that was fast”

Another excellent gun battle scene was Doc Shooting the outlaw before Wyatt showed up- Val Kilmer was Doc- Shots the man in one of the best ‘draw scenes’ I’ve ever seen (although Charles Bronson had a great one too In the movie where he played a harmonica just three notes)- anyway- Doc tells the fella “You aint no Daisy” or something like that

They did an excellent job filiming that draw scene-


82 posted on 10/12/2015 11:03:08 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Bob434
The Father and Son shootout in the movie with Sharron STone, Decaprio and Gene Hackman- can’t remember name-

The Quick and the Dead

84 posted on 10/12/2015 11:04:54 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: Bob434
"They did an excellent job filiming that draw scene-"

Yes, after watching true life quick draw men over the years, the director did that scene well. Especially like how Doc twirled his gun and holstered it after shooting Ringo. BTW, do you know that didn't actually happen, although much of Tombstone is based in fact. Sometime after the "Vengence Ride", Ringo was found shot dead laying up against a tree. Speculation is that his cow-rustling days caught up with him or the Earp posse went back again.

Until I saw Tombstone and started researching the history, like most, I thought that the shootout was the only action from earlier movies. Turns out, the "Vengence Ride" was bigger than the shootout at Lot #42.

Sorry, folks, but it was not at the OK Corral, which was located on Fremont Street which was and is still the main street.
The shootout occurred around the corner on Allen Street in a vacant lot behind the OK Corral. Wikipedia has it wrong when they say it occurred 2 blocks away on Fremont Street. Nope.

I know because I stayed there 3 days and 2 nights while supporting the Minutemen back when. It is truly a one horse town and memorized every aspect of it, not to mention reading the 2 definitive books on the Earp saga with historical maps of the town included. The staged production of the shootout is scheduled every day for tourists on the same vacant lot on Allen Street where it occurred.

109 posted on 10/12/2015 12:21:20 PM PDT by A Navy Vet (An Oath is Forever)
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