Tombstone - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[jeffrey]

Adjusted for inflation, the $500 Curly Bill wins when he first meets Wyatt Earp at the faro table was equivalent to $6,700 in 1993, the year the movie was released.

[clayton]

Kevin Jarre began as director, filming all of Charlton Heston's scenes and a few other scenes which were re-shot once George P. Cosmatos took over. George P. Cosmatos was given two additional cameras, a camera crane (Chapman Lenny Arm), remote hot head, and additional crew in order to be successful.

[victoria]

As Wyatt and the others are about to finish off the cowboys, Holiday says, "The last charge of Wyatt Earp and his immortals." The "immortals" is a reference to the Myrmidon; the warriors of Achilles.

[brent]

The participants of what became known as the Gunfight at the O.K Corral were: Virgil, Morgan, and Wyatt Earp, and Doc Holliday vs. Tom and Frank McLaury, Billy and Ike Clanton, and Billy Claiborne.