In fact, when ambushed, Virgil Earp was shot in his left elbow, but in the movie he has immobilized his right arm.
In the O.
Corral duel time, the county sheriff was John Behan, not Jimmy Bryan according to the movie.
When Virgil Earp is ambushed while doing his rounds he is shot by Frank Stilwell using a double barrel shotgun.
In spite of the distance between him and Stillwell in the Barber Shop (the width of a street) there are no pellet strikes in the building he is standing in front of.
The film has the gunfight taking place on a perfect warm sunny day.
It was actually overcast, cold with snow on the ground.
In the gunfight it shows only Billy Clanton, Tom McLaury and Frank McLaury in the OK Corral and the Earps outside.
In reality the gunfight took place in a vacant lot behind the OK Corral.
In that lot were the Earp party, Billy Clanton, the McLaury's, Ike Clanton and Billy Claibourne along with two horses.
The gunfight at the O.K.
.... "Hour of the Gun" is almost addictive.
There must have been 20 actors or more playing Wyatt Earp. The first one I saw was Richard Dix "Tombstone, the town too tough to Die", then Randolph Scott Frontier Marshal, and many to follow.
The dependable and highly capable Sturges does a good job of directing HOUR OF THE GUN. Garner, Robards, and Ryan are all first class.
"Hour of the Gun" is one of two films John Sturges made about the notorious Gunfight at the O.K.
Reportedly the John Sturges-directed, ponderous Hour of the Gun that came some ten years after the high-profile flourished Gunfight at the OK Corral, was a much more appreciated film. Mostly the admiration came form the director who was dismayed at the bending of historical facts to fit into a palpable Hollywood vehicle.
There are no dance hall girls, barroom brawls, supporting characters supplying comic relief and no starry-eyed heroine for the hero in HOUR OF THE GUN, a good, solid western that maintains interest throughout its running time while avoiding all the usual western clichés.But since it's a tale of vendetta, there are plenty of shootouts with bad guys and JAMES GARNER has a fine time disposing of a batch of ornery guys, killers and robbers who deserve to bite the dust.
The last time I watched "Hour of the Gun" I didn't like it so much. I thought it was okay.
"Bad Day at Black Rock" director John Sturges revisited the Wyatt Earp/Ike Clanton feud in "Hour of the Gun" with James Garner and Jason Robards that he began in 1957 with Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas in the Hal B. Wallis production of "Gunfight at the O.
