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Wyatt Earp: Your favorite quotes.
Hi everyone. Today I posted a comment on an article about violence in Downtown Lawrence. I mentioned we ought to dig up Wyatt Earp, get some DNA, and see what we could mix up.
I had no clue, this would bring out the Wyatt Earp fans, with their favorite quotes.
Realizing, if it’s good for those readers, there must be others.
Tombstone was released in 1993, starring Kurt Russell in the title role.
Wyatt Earp was released in 1994, starring Kevin Costner.
Both are very moving, if not truly factual. Any comments on that? Have you been to their towns? The OK Corral? Is it the same as in the 70’s or have they changed? OK corral link below. http://daguerre.frejol.org/photo.live?id=20040803006
I own both tapes, but they both come on so frequently, that I don’t get them out very often. Everyone seems to have a preference. Which is yours and why?
And best of all, what are your favorite quotes?
I'll start off with: "Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything. " I've used this quote in situations that I think he would enjoy.
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21 May 2008 at 9:20 a.m.
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Multidisciplinary (Anonymous) says…
Here we go, have fun!
21 May 2008 at 9:20 a.m.
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Coach_Eric (Anonymous) says…
Man…1993! Thanks for making me feel old!!!
21 May 2008 at 9:33 a.m.
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blue73harley (Anonymous) says…
Tombstone is far better. Kurt Russell was great as Wyatt but Val Kilmer's performance as Doc was brilliant!
21 May 2008 at 9:35 a.m.
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gogoplata (Anonymous) says…
Tombstone by far.
Favorite quote is
Damn right you're scared, I can see that in your eyes.
21 May 2008 at 9:44 a.m.
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blue73harley (Anonymous) says…
Josephine: I'm a woman, I like men. If that means I'm not “lady-like”, then I guess I'm just not a lady! At least I'm honest.
Wyatt Earp: You're different. No arguin' that. But you're a lady alright. I'd take my oath on it
21 May 2008 at 9:47 a.m.
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oldvet (Anonymous) says…
1993? Boy, I remember the TV series back in the late 50's that starred Hugh O'Brian, along with his Buntline Special. He would stand at one end of the street, the bad guys at the other end of the street, and after their shots were falling way short of him, out would come the Buntline Special and… another one bites the dust…
Wyatt Earp, Wyatt Earp, brave courageous and bold.
Long live his fame and long live his glory
And long may his story be told.
21 May 2008 at 9:56 a.m.
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countrygirl (Anonymous) says…
Tombstone, hands down.
You called down the thunder—well now you've got it.
Hell's coming—and I'm coming with it.
21 May 2008 at 9:58 a.m.
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blue73harley (Anonymous) says…
Heck yeah, oldvet! I grew up watching Death Valley Days, Have Gun- Will Travel, Gunsmoke, Bonanza and Rawhide.
Clint Eastwood as Rowdy Yates = too cool.
21 May 2008 at 9:59 a.m.
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archy (Anonymous) says…
i'm your huckleberry
archy
21 May 2008 at 10:40 a.m.
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Marion (Marion Lynn) says…
From “Tombstone”:
Wyatt Earp:
“You tell 'em I'M coming… and Hell's coming with me, you hear?…
[louder]
Hell's coming with me! ”
Now as far as real-life quotes:
“Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.”
A very good article on Wyatt Earp can be found here; straight from the University of Kansas:
http://www.kancoll.org/khq/1976/76_2_shi…
21 May 2008 at 10:50 a.m.
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justbegintowrite (Ronda Miller) says…
good one, multi!
I also grew up watching all of the shows named above but don't have any favorite quotes to share off-hand.
I loved the show “Sugar Foot”, anyone remember that one? The actor was Will Something, and I loved Bonaza, and Gun Smoke and Have Gun Will Travel. Heck, when you grow up Kansan you grow up lovin a great looking gun slinger! The Rifleman, you bet, and I can't think of another favorite right now - I'll be back.
21 May 2008 at 10:53 a.m.
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Marty_McFly (Anonymous) says…
Wait a minute, Doc. Ah… Are you telling me that you built a time machine… out of a DeLorean?
21 May 2008 at 11:16 a.m.
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oldvet (Anonymous) says…
Hey, I loved them all, blue… along with Branded (Chuck Conners)… remember how it would start with his rank being ripped off and his sword broken and him walking out of the fort…
21 May 2008 at 11:46 a.m.
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BigAl (Anonymous) says…
I agree with blue73harley. Val Kilmer's Doc was outstanding.
The cowboy: Doc, what are you doing here?
Doc: Wyatt Earp is my friend.
The cowboy: Hell, I've got lots of friends.
Doc: I don't.
21 May 2008 at 12:28 p.m.
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cait48 (Anonymous) says…
Interesting bit about the real Wyatt Earp:
I lived for a time in Lamar, MO (in fact my youngest daughter was born there). Lamar is where Earp met and married his first wife who died from measles when she was pregnant.(And by the way her family fought the marriage. They didn't want her marrying him.) At the time, he collected tax money for the town and for Barton County (his uncle was a Barton County judge). However, he was caught embezzling county funds and was either ran out of town or just flat ran away to avoid prosecution. Either way, a small town that could make a big deal out of an association with a historical figure wants nothing to do with him. Go to the town and you would never know Earp had been within a 100 miles of the place. They moved the farmhouse where Harry Truman was born into the town and made a museum out of it. But you ask any longstanding native about Earp and his association with the town and to this day you will either just get a sour look or set people off.
21 May 2008 at 12:53 p.m.
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gogoplata (Anonymous) says…
BigAl that one you posted is my second favorite line from that movie.
21 May 2008 at 1:21 p.m.
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snap_pop_no_crackle (Anonymous) says…
cait48, it seems like some people have long memories.
21 May 2008 at 1:49 p.m.
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Marion (Marion Lynn) says…
I always liked the Nick Adams series, “The Rebel”, his character Johnny Yuma and was especially fond of the shotgun/pistol that he carried.
The title song was sung by Johnny Cash who also appeared in several episodes.
Go here to read about the series:
http://www.tvobscurities.com/articles/re…
21 May 2008 at 1:59 p.m.
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oldvet (Anonymous) says…
Marion, you really got a good one there… I seem to remember that in the opening credits there would be six shots into a target, followed by the shotgun blast that ripped the target apart. I also want to believe that some toy manufacturer made a plastic replica of that pistol, but maybe that is just my old memory wanting that to be so…
21 May 2008 at 2:16 p.m.
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Marion (Marion Lynn) says…
oldvet:
Indeed a toy comany did make such a toy gun and I wanted one desperately!
Never got one but there are some out there today but you would not believe the prices.
I did have however, a Mattel Mickey Mouse Thompson submachine gun which shot roll caps.
You pulled back the bolt and then squeezed the trigger and the thing would full-auto just like the real thing!
I stiil have my real leather Roy Rogers double holters and one of my chrome-plated Hubley Colt 1860 army cap guns.
The other was stolen by a neighbour kid when I left it in the “fort” my Dad had built for us.
I still have the the two-piece “bullets” into which one put a Greenie Stickum Cap so that the gun could be “fired”“
http://www.nicholscapguns.com/graphics/s…
Somewhere I still have my Daisy 99, a couple of Dixie Gun Works cap-and-ball muskets which would fire cork balls proeplled again by the Big Greenie (Or three if you stacked them up!) You could also pour a little firecracker powder down the bore for that “added effect” if you were smart enough to hoard away some Black CAts form 4th of July!), a Nichols Stallion .45 Mk II and a complete unassembled in-the-box “Man From Uncle” Walther P-38.
21 May 2008 at 2:39 p.m.
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Marion (Marion Lynn) says…
Oldvet:
It's a slow day on the net as my coder is taking a day off so I found this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp9QiY48B…
21 May 2008 at 7:13 p.m.
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Multidisciplinary (Anonymous) says…
They played, they played!
(Multi does little dance)
Quote (maybe not perfect) from Harvie Krumpet a short claymation film on Sundance last night:
The problem with nude dancing is that not all parts stop when the music does!
You can see it here, I just discovered.
http://www.atomfilms.com/film/harvie_kru…
Glad to see you here! I'll be getting out my Tombstone tape later. All the quotes got me in the mood to see it “now”!
21 May 2008 at 7:19 p.m.
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Multidisciplinary (Anonymous) says…
cait48,
thank you for that info, I love to hear those stories!
Reminds me of how Charles Bronson's hometown wants nothing to do with him. I believe they said “Charlie never did anything for us, ….”
21 May 2008 at 7:29 p.m.
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jonas (Anonymous) says…
“El Diablo esta viniendo con migo!!”
Tombstone is f'n awesome to watch with the spanish dialog on.
21 May 2008 at 8:12 p.m.
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Multidisciplinary (Anonymous) says…
hehehehehe
21 May 2008 at 9:14 p.m.
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Guardian (Anonymous) says…
You may or may not know that Johnny Western is still alive and performing. Johnny wrote and recorded the Paladin theme song. He sang it every week on TV in the day. He was also a member of Johnny Cash's band for 40 years. He currently is a deejay at a Wichita radio station. If you like this kind of stuff, check out his web site or go watch him perform. He will definately bring back memories from when, as Bob Hope once said, “NBC [stood] for 'Nothing But Cowboys,'”
21 May 2008 at 9:33 p.m.
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Godot (Anonymous) says…
Wyatt Earp shows up on my family's version of a family tree, the writings in my mother's mother's bible. Her brother was the sheriff of our home county for years and years. I saw him a couple of times, big guy, big voice, big moustache, huge persona, and a pistol on his hip. On my father's side there are some nefarious horse traders, gamblers, drunks, and other southeast Kansas ne'er do-wells, including an owner of a newspaper.
I once got a laugh from my parents when I put a pan under the TV when Wyatt “Urp” came on.
21 May 2008 at 9:37 p.m.
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Marion (Marion Lynn) says…
Guardian:
Thanks for that link!
I had *NO* idea!
“Paladin” was always *SO* slick, with his silk smoking jacket, his tailored outfits, his cigar,his art, his fine wine, right up until the telegram arrived and in the next scene Richard Boone would be dressed in black and ready to right a wrong.
My Mother hated the show because she thought that Boone was ugly.
My Dad would *ALWAYS* let me watch it though, God bless him!
Check out the opening for “Paladin” and while you're at ti, look for Jack Lord as a bad guy.
Jack Lord later starred in “Hawaii 5-0”
Pop a top, light up; whatever and go here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7hcoyE-B…
21 May 2008 at 9:55 p.m.
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Godot (Anonymous) says…
hmmmm. my post about Wyatt Earp in my family tree gives the wrong impression. My great uncle was not Wyatt Earp; my great uncle, who was a sheriff of a county in SE Kansas, was a descendant of Earp. Somewhere, somehow, Wyatt Earp is recorded as being the father of someone in my mother's family, but the record does not show that he is the husband of the mother of the child.
21 May 2008 at 10:14 p.m.
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Moonbat (Anonymous) says…
Wow, Tombstone is by far the better of the two and is one of my favorite movies of all time. I agree with previous posters that Val Kilmer's performance was awesome! I also thought the guy that played Johnny Ringo was great too. So many great quotes from that movie, and all of them were Doc's. Here's a couple of my fav's (i had to go to imbd.com to get the exact quotes)
Doc: “It's true, you are a good woman. Then again, you may be the antichrist. ”
Doc: “I'm your huckleberry… ”
21 May 2008 at 10:40 p.m.
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Multidisciplinary (Anonymous) says…
One thing got me most when I first saw it in the theatre. When they were discussing why Ringo could have turned out the way he did, they said some things and there was a pause..I so identified with the part, that I said aloud to my husband..”Being born”. Then they proceeded to say something similar.
Scary.
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And I know this is about quotes, but a person can never forget the pistol/cup show off!
And remember how cool it was to find Doc out in the woods, when he pulled aside his jacket to reveal the badge..and the “I'm about to die horror” on the man's face!
Seriously, I felt that horror throughout my whole body..they did a fantastic job!
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I remember the viewing many years later, when I realized Billy Bob Thorton played the hot shot that Wyatt encountered at the bar. An omg moment!
http://www.billybobthornton.net/film%20t…
21 May 2008 at 11:11 p.m.
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Multidisciplinary (Anonymous) says…
Godot, thanks for sharing. That's great stuff. I wonder how her family felt about her choice of husband?
I had a friend who did their family tree, only to find a great uncle was hanged as a horse thief. They hung their heads and quit looking after that lol. A great story to tell.
I know another person who's old grandpa was from Western Ks, and he had passed away. One of the aunt started researching, and an amazing thing was discovered. Grandpa had changed his name!, In fact, his whole family had, his brother, etc.
Turns out, in his younger life he had been a Texas Ranger and the family was from there. Something in the course of his work had happened, and there was a “Cowboys” type situation. There was a very real threat to him and his family. So protect themselves, they moved to KS, changed there names and became farmers.
I would listen to those family members talk about granddad not being granddad, in a sort of, “the rug just got pulled out from under us and all that we felt comfortable with, but it sure is a great twist!”
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A friend is the S/O of a man who says he is either the grandson/great grandson or (add one more great to the previous) of Geronimo.
I'm told Geronimo married one of his daughters, and this man comes down from there, thus the double title. The time frames match up, and also the location, plus, physical attributes.
22 May 2008 at 1:06 a.m.
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TopJayhawk (Anonymous) says…
I think Tombstone was the most entertaining. But Kevin Costners' flick was the most factual.. Josie wrote a book entittled, I believe. “I married Wyatt Earp” A quick short entertaning read.
22 May 2008 at 1:27 a.m.
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TopJayhawk (Anonymous) says…
My favorite live is when the Doc is drunk, One of the Cowboys says: Doc, your so drunk you probably see double.” And Doc says: “I have two guns, one for each of you.” Their is on interesting biography on sale in the bookshop at the Kansas Museum of History here in town. And a lot of books on the old west, and the different gunslingers. Good stuff. Including one that really trashes Doc, and Wyatt. Then you read the credits and the author, it becomes apparent he really has a thing about Wyatt and Doc. All of the info comes from living, modern day descendents of the Clantons, and the McLowries that still live in southern Arizona.If you have seen a picture of Ike Clanton.. The guy in Tombstone looks JUST like him… Really kind of spooky
22 May 2008 at 3:26 a.m.
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Multidisciplinary (Anonymous) says…
That is a great line Top.
And when I read what you wrote about Ike, I got goosebumps LOL.
22 May 2008 at 11:16 a.m.
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BigAl (Anonymous) says…
Yes, you can read all sorts of things about Wyatt and Doc. A lot of the “facts” are determined by who writes the stuff. In the move Tombstone, it shows Wyatt getting his guns from a case marked “presented to Wyatt Earp from the citizens of Dodge City”. This is true. The citizens of Dodge City did present Earp with these guns, or gun. Obviously, at some point, he was appreciated in Dodge City.
22 May 2008 at 3:57 p.m.
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lazz (Anonymous) says…
I saw tombstone shortly after reading a good biography of Doc Holliday … as I recall, much of the movie was fairly factual … timelines were definitely compressed, as always, and of course the dramatic elements were tweaked and hightened, but in many ways, they had Holliday's story fairly true. Again, working from memory, but it seems that much of the Earp Bros.' storylines were twisted and drastically compressed to fit the movie …
There was a prominent rancher named Hooker (played by Charlton Heston), who probably helped Earp's squad against the Cowboys, but the bit about him guarding the dying Doc Holliday is screenplay stuff.
Damn good screenplay stuff, by the way, but fiction. And Wyatt Earp wasn't there when Holliday died.
I hope these don't sound like criticisms: I thought the movie was fabulous, and the screenplay wildly underrated. Deserves a place in the pantheon of true American originals … I downloaded it to my iPod Touch and watched it on recent flights to/from Europe. Great stuff, all around. And I agree with all before me: Val Kilmer's performance was frighteningly good. Overshadowed a lot of other excellent performances; have there been creepier Western gunslingers than Michael Biehn's Johnny Ringo and Powers Boothe's Curly Bill?
Speaking of great Westerns: Do Not Miss “3:10 to Yuma” and “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.” We got two more classics in just the past year …
22 May 2008 at 4:29 p.m.
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BigAl (Anonymous) says…
The narration at the end of the movie by Robert Mitchum was great. Describing Earp's funeral being attended by early Hollywood cowboy stars including William S. Hart and Tom Mix. And then adding: “Tom Mix wept”.
Great ending.
22 May 2008 at 10:28 p.m.
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Marion (Marion Lynn) says…
Hey, here's one for you!
Who is the first actor known to have portrayed “Wyatt Earp” on the big screen?
22 May 2008 at 10:51 p.m.
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Multidisciplinary (Anonymous) says…
Are you talking about Randolph Scott in that one with Caesar Romero as doc in the 30's I think?
There's probably an earlier one, silent with..geez..(think think).
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Everyone remember seeing these two Earp movies 93, 94, , then going to the theater 95, to see Wild Bill and how awful it was?
22 May 2008 at 11:39 p.m.
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Marion (Marion Lynn) says…
Nope.