Set in Southeast Arizona in the 1880s,Tombstonedepicts such real-life historical events as the Gunfight at the O.K.
Corral and the Earp Vendetta Ride.
InTombstone, Kilmer nailed Doc Hollidays quick drawand genteel Southern accent.
But the film primarily focuses on the friendship betweenKurt Russell’s Earp and Val Kilmer’s Holliday.
Tuberculosis is an infectious disease that typically affects the lungs (but can also affect other body parts).
It wasn’t an uncommon illness in the mid-1800s, and it was (and still is) contagious.
Shortly thereafter, the disease also took his adopted brother, Francisco.
By 1887, six years after the 1881 gunfight at the O.K.
Just before he passed,Doc Holliday’s last words were reportedly, “This is funny.
Tombstone chronicles legendary marshal Wyatt Earp and his brothers as they seek fortune in a prosperous mining town. Forced to confront a gang threatening the community, Earp joins forces with the infamous Doc Holliday, highlighting a tense battle between lawmen and outlaws in the American West.
Tombstone’s Doc Hollidaystayed true to the real Doc Holliday’s last words: “I’ll be damned.
This is funny.”
Tombstone is full of memorable cinematic moments, not least of which are Doc Holliday’s infinitely quotable one-liners.
Dealing with that kind of heat made Kilmer understand why Holliday was eventually driven mad in real life.
