John Henry "Doc" Holliday (August 14, 1851 – November 8, 1887) was an American gambler, gunfighter and dentist of the American Old West, who is usually remembered for his friendship with Wyatt Earp and his involvement in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
As a young man, Holliday earned a D.D.S. degree in dentistry and set up a practice in Atlanta, Georgia. However, in 1873 he was diagnosed with consumption (tuberculosis), the same disease that had claimed his mother when he was 15. He moved to the American southwest in hopes that the climate would prolong his life. Taking up gambling as a profession, he acquired a reputation as a deadly gunman.
During his travels, he met and became good friends with Wyatt Earp and Earp's brothers. In 1880, he moved to Tombstone, Arizona, and participated alongside the Earps in the famous gunfight. This did not settle matters between the two sides, and Holliday was embroiled in ensuing shootouts and killings. He successfully fought being extradited for murder, and died in bed at a Colorado hotel/sanatorium at the age of 36.
Wyatt Earp: You have to understand the War Between the States. The war formed us, made us who we are. After killing your own cousins, your own brothers, killing strangers meant nothin'. Lawless times followed those long dark years.
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Combining colorized footage from the television series 'The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp' with new scenes shot in Tombstone, Az in 1994-this movie shows the return of the legendary former Marshal to his old stomping grounds. He visits old friends, teaches bad guys some manners and reveals secrets about his early life.
Keywords: bar-shootout, character-name-in-title, doc-holliday, edited-from-tv-series, gun-battle, gunfight, gunfight-at-the-o.k.-corral, independent-film, marshal, shootout
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After the long career of lawman that made him a legend, Wyatt Earp deciedes to quit and join his brothers in Tombstone, Arizona. There he would see them in feud with Clantons, local clan of thugs and cattle thieves. When the showdown becomes inevitable, the help will come from Doc Holliday, terminally-ill gambler who happens to be another Wild West legend.
Keywords: acronym-in-title, ambush, bar-girl, barber-shop, based-on-article, based-on-true-story, blackjack, blockbuster, brother-brother-relationship, cards
The Fiery Brilliance of 8 Great Stars... The Double-Barreled Excitement of 2 Mighty Action Spectacles!
The Wildest Gunfight in the History of the West !
Wyatt Earp: [to Billy Clanton] You think you're pretty tough, don't ya, son? I never knew a gunslinger yet so tough he lived to celebrate his 35th birthday. I learned one rule about gunslingers. There's always a man faster on the draw than you are, and the more you use a gun, the sooner you're gonna run into that man.
Wyatt Earp: Look, Holliday, as long as I'm the law here, not one of those cowpokes is going to cross that deadline with a gun. I don't care if his name *is* Shanghai Pierce.::Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday: Well spoken. I'll repeat those words at your funeral.
Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday: I'm a gambler. Money's just a tool of my trade.::Wyatt Earp: Of course, you will guarantee you won't lose.::Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday: I never lose. You see, poker's played by desperate men who cherish money. I don't lose because I have nothing to lose, including my life.
Billy Clanton: I don't know why I get into gunfights. I guess sometimes I just get lonely.
Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday: [after shooting a few antagonists] Anybody else want to try their luck?::Wyatt Earp: [Herding the arrested cowboys to jail] Get moving! - Keep moving, all of ya!::Johnny Ringo: [Holding his wounded arm] All right, Doc. [In a threatening tone] We ain't finished yet!::Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday: You would have been, but I felt in a charitable mood tonight.
Kate Fisher: What difference does it make to you where I go or who I take up with?::Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday: Shut up!::Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday: [throwing her dress on the floor] Get your things together. You're leaving!::Johnny Ringo: [entering from the bedroom] She's staying here!::Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday: Keep out of this, Ringo!::Johnny Ringo: You got no right to come bustin' in here!::Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday: I'm talking to Kate. Take a walk!::Kate Fisher: Anything you got to say you can say in front of him.::Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday: [with contempt] You slut!::Johnny Ringo: Wait a minute, Holliday. You don't talk to my woman like that!::Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday: [contemptuously] Your woman? Anybody's woman!
Cotton Wilson: There's $20,000 in it for you - cash!::Wyatt Earp: $20,000! The wages of sin are rising!::Cotton Wilson: $20,00 against a six foot hole in Boot Hill or a $20 a month pension - IF you live long enough to collect it.
Wyatt Earp: We'd like you to come to the wedding, Doc, - if it doesn't interfere with your poker.::Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday: I'm not good at weddings - only funerals. Deal me out.
Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday: If I'm going to die, atr least let me die with the only friend I've ever had!
Wyatt Earp: Hold up your right hand. Do you solemnly swear to uphold... oh, this is ridiculous. You're deputized. Grab some gear, I'll get the horses.::Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday: Wait a minute, don't I get to wear a tin star?::Wyatt Earp: Not on your life!
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Dodge City Sheriff Bat Masterson is out to prove that a group of cattlemen have framed Merrick for murder because he negotiated a treaty granting the Kiowas a reserve in the grass country that the cattlemen wanted for their own grazing land. Knowing that the tribes will wage war again if Merrick is executed, Masterson begins a search for Clay Bennett who testified he saw the murder. Joining him in the hunt is Marshal Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday, both for different purposes. Although Masterson and Holliday have a long standing feud, the latter is persuaded by Merrick's daughter Amy to help.
Keywords: ambush, bat-masterson, character-name-in-title, doc-holliday, dodge-city, lynch-mob, poker, stagecoach, state-in-title, street-shootout
Toughest of All Lawmen!
GUN-SLINGING LAWMAN! (original print ad - all caps)
Nobody Draws Faster Than [Masterson of Kansas]
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Newly appointed sheriff Pat Garrett is pleased when his old friend Doc Holliday arrives in Lincoln, New Mexico on the stage. Doc is trailing his stolen horse, and it is discovered in the possession of Billy the Kid. In a surprising turnaround, Billy and Doc become friends. This causes the friendship between Doc and Pat to cool. The odd relationship between Doc and Billy grows stranger when Doc hides Billy at his girl, Rio's, place after Billy is shot. She falls for Billy, although he treats her very badly. Interaction between these four is played out against an Indian attack before a final showdown reduces the group's number.
Keywords: aunt, bar-shootout, bed-spring, billy-the-kid, bird, bound-and-gagged, burial, buxom, canteen, chase
How'd you like to tussle with Russell??
TRIGGER-FAST ACTION!
'BILLY! LET ME GO!"
NOT SUITABLE for CHILDREN (Australia 1950 poster)
At last! [Australia]
EXACTLY AS FILMED (reissue print ad - all caps)
TWO Great NEW DISCOVERIES - The man who gave you "Hell's Angels" brings you two star-destined personalities!
Howard Hughes' searing saga of the Southwest presenting two new star-destined discoveries!
The original story of Billy the Kid.
SENSATION Too Startling To Describe! [1943 general release]
[first lines]::Townsman: Doc Holliday just got off the stagecoach! Do you want me and some of the boys to come along with you?::Pat Garrett: Why do ask that?::Townsman: Well, I certainly wouldn't want to fool around with him if I were alone.::Pat Garrett: I don't blame you, but I ain't gonna make no trouble for Doc Holliday. He's my best friend!
Doc Holliday: I need a little money and I thought maybe you'd like to come in with me.::[Pat laughs]::Doc Holliday: What's the matter?::Pat Garrett: I'll let you have the money, but if the deal's anything like that last one of yours, you better not tell me about it.::Doc Holliday: Why not?::[Pat pulls back his vest and reveals his Sheriff's badge]::Doc Holliday: Where'd you get that?::Pat Garrett: Oh, they stuck it on me about two weeks ago.::Doc Holliday: You're the last man I thought would be so easily satisfied.::Pat Garrett: Well, l... l... , a man's gotta settle down sometime.
Billy the Kid: That was pretty smart putting sand in those canteens.::Rio: I had to give you something for your money, didn't I?::Billy the Kid: Oh, I see. So you sent the Sheriff after us for good measure. No wonder he came alone... all he had to do was take his time and wait for the sun to finish us off.::Rio: Then how did you get back?::Billy the Kid: It was pretty tough, but the more I thought about seeing you, *darling*, the easier it got.
[Pat and Doc rescue Rio, whom Billy has left bound, gagged and strung up by wrists within sight of a desert waterhole]::Doc Holliday: You know, I think he's in love with you.::Rio: What are you talking about?::Doc Holliday: The crazier a man is for a woman, the crazier he thinks and the crazier he acts.::Rio: He's only crazy about one thing - himself.::Pat Garrett: Hey, that gives me a thought. Maybe we'll get Mr. Billy after all.::Rio: How?::Pat Garrett: Like you said - if he's crazy enought to do you like this, maybe he's crazy enough to come back to turn you loose.
Billy the Kid: Well, go ahead.::Pat Garrett: Go ahead what?::Billy the Kid: Aren't you going to say something over Doc?::Pat Garrett: I don't know what to say. I've never said anything over anybody I've killed before.::Billy the Kid: I think we ought to say something over Doc.::Pat Garrett: You better do it.::Billy the Kid: So long, Doc.
Pat Garrett: I thought you might want to keep Doc's guns as a keepsake.::Billy the Kid: Say, I sure would. Thanks, Pat, thanks a lot. I've never had an extra pair. And black holsters, too! They'd go nice with Sunday clothes if I ever get any.
Billy the Kid: Pat, I want you to know I'm sorry. I honestly am. Last night, I was ready to kill you. But in the daylight, I can see things much better.
Prologue: "The Outlaw" is a story of the untamed West. Frontier days when the reckless fire of guns and passions blazed an era of death, destruction and lawlessness. Days when the fiery desert sun beat down avenginly on the many who dared defy justice and outrage decency.
Doc Holliday: Sonny, that head of yours is sure screwed on tight.::Billy the Kid: If it wasn't, somebody would have knocked it off long ago.
Doc Holliday: Well, Billy, I guess this is it. Men are pretty much like children after all. Have you ever seen two kids wrestling in the yard? They push and they tussle and maybe they look like they're fighting... but they're not. They're really friends and everything is fun. Then pretty soon they play a little too rough. One of them gets mad. And in the end, somebody always gets hurt. So for you and me, this is where somebody gets hurt. But when it's over, and however it turns out, son, no hard feelings.
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Alamo has been sent to Tombstone. A trial is coming up and Bull and his men plan to kidnap the Judge. Alamo rescues the Judge from the gang and puts him in a safe place only to have them trick him and get the Judge. With the trial imminent, Alamo heads out to find him.
Keywords: doc-holliday, stagecoach, thief
An outlaw walking through the valley of men
Glared with a sunken eye of death
Moved his head from side to side and said
Come on you gutless slugs fight like a man
State your name and business and let's see what you got
Another body for the hangman's count
Show me the bar, and show me the cards
Hold on to your guns
Filled up with bug juice
The moonshine in his hand
Hot headed with a temperament
The speediest deadliest man with a gun
A bloody gambler but a gentleman dog
A frontier vagabond who charms all the dames
Hello ladies, how's your day today
Let me introduce you to myself
Doc Holliday
Ooooooooooh
The outlaw man's roar
Ooooooooooh
The outlaw man
A friendly man but without a friend
Fort Griffin Texas here I am
Supported Wyatt Earp to the very end
Cemented brotherhood
Don't get in his way
You cannot shake his boots
You cannot scar his fate
Down under you will hear him grin
Great the man the outlaw himself
Doc Holliday
Ooooooooooh
The outlaw man's roar
Ooooooooooh
The outlaw man
Filled up with bug juice
The moonshine in his hand
Hot headed with a temperament
The speediest deadliest man with a gun
A bloody gambler but a gentleman dog
A frontier vagabond who charms all the dames
Hello ladies, how's your day today
Let me introduce you to myself
Doc Holliday
Ooooooooooh
The outlaw man's roar
Ooooooooooh
Old Doc Holliday was tendin' the town old Doc Holliday was tendin' the town
But he heard the news goin' around that the plain Fuel Kid is gonna shoot him down
Won't you have another drink on me Doc Holliday
Have another drink on me (Doc Holliday)
Have another drink on me Doc Holliday the Kid ain't gonna shoot you down
Old Doc Holliday was leanin' on the stand pistol on his hip and red iron in his hand
The Kid come waddlin' down the street old Doc said Kid saints know that you're mean
Won't you have another drink on me...
The Kid drew his pistol and Doc did too Doc got to him shot him through
But Kid looked up said don't shoot me more but Doc just smiled and emptied his 44
Oh won't you have another drink on me...
Have another drink on me...
I had a good friend,
In my hometown.
Early this morning,
They layed him in the ground...
He was my brother,
I won't tell You his name,
He was a junky
For Whiskey and Cocaine.
Oh, no, He's dead an' cold,
Don't Go down the Dead Man's Road!
The Dead Man's Road!
I hear You're out there, sayin:
"It won't happen to me"
'Cause it feels good an that makes that
So easy to believe.
My friend was young an' strong,
Like everybody else.
I began to understand,
When I got there myself...
All the goodtime losers,
They knew my name,
Just small-time users,
Waiting on a train...
I danced with the Devil,
He tried to get my soul,
I didn't recognized him
On the Dead Man's Road...
Oh, no He's dead an' cold,
Don't Go down the Dead Man's Road!
The Dead Man's Road!
I cheated on my woman,
An' I cheated myself,
I cheated my mother and my father,
Everybody else.
I came to know Jesus
An' he saved my soul,
Changed my direction,
From the Dead Man's Road...
Oh, no He's dead an' cold,
Don't Go down the Dead Man's Road!
The Dead Man's Road!