Wyatt Earp - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

Fan of Wyatt Earp or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Wyatt Earp

[wesley]

At the OK Corral no one would have been able to see anyone else as black powder would have obscured any line of sight after Doc Holliday fired the first few rounds with a double barrel shotgun, his favorite weapon. Not the .45s used in the movie.

[chad]

Michael Madsen is actually four years younger than Kevin Costner, despite playing his older brother.

[aaron]

Kevin Costner and Gene Hackman were, prior to co-starring in this film, starring in films directed by Clint Eastwood, he also co-starred in Unforgiven (1992) with Hackman and in A Perfect World (1993) with Costner. Incidentally Hackman and Costner played bad guys in these films.

[duane]

The real Wyatt Earp's 6-shooter was loaned by the Earp museum and used in some scenes during a number of close-ups.

[miriam]

Adam Baldwin had previously worked with composer James Newton Howard's younger brother Arliss Howard on Full Metal Jacket (1987).

[norma]

The movie was a critical and commercial disaster and damaged Kevin Costner's career. However his career later revived slightly with Thirteen Days (2000).

[elmer]

Film debut of Joanna Going.

[norma]

While in real life Wyatt did not directly arrest Dave Rudabaugh following his talk with Doc Holiday as depicted in the film, the outlaw would continue to have run ins with the lawman for the next 5 years. Wyatt telegraphed the information he got from Holiday to Bat Masterson who did arrest Rudabaugh in Kansas in 1878. Following this and other runs in with Earp in Dodge City, Dave fled to New Mexico where he joined up with Billy the Kid in a new gang. Following a shootout at Stinking Springs on Dec. 23rd 1880. He was taken prisoner along with Billy and shipped off to prison for trial in Santa Fe. In February 1881 he was sentenced to hang for his crimes but escaped custody and fled to Arizona. There he joined the Clanton faction in their battles against Earp and his family. He may have taken part in the shootings of Virgil and Morgan Earp, as well as the subsequent clash at Iron Springs where Curly Bill Brocius was killed. Rudabaugh finally came to a very bad end when he was killed and decapitated in Mexico on February 18th 1886.

[jesus]

In this film, Dennis Quaid played Doc Holliday, a role which would later be played by his elder brother Randy Quaid in Purgatory (1999).

[eli]

This is the only depiction of the OK Corral shoot out where Morgan Earp starts the fight by drawing two single action Colt 45s. The film's depiction of Morgan as a hot head with an itchy trigger finger is in direct contrast to the characterization found in Tombstone (1993).

[caroline]

The music featured in the film's theatrical trailer is "Love and Dreams", composed by Ennio Morricone for the motion picture A Time of Destiny (1988).

[carla]

Tombstone (1993) was being filmed at the same time nearby, and bought up most of the period clothing in the region. Clothing had to be imported from Europe, delaying production.

[elmer]

Michael Madsen was offered the role of Vincent Vega in Pulp Fiction (1994), but he couldn't get released from this film.

[jessica]

Originally conceived as a six-hour mini-series.

[jesse]

Gene Hackman receives third-billing and is named on all posters although he has less than 10 minutes of screen time.

[melinda]

In addition to Kevin Costner and Michael Madsen being in Roger Donaldson films, the same cinematographer, Andrzej Bartkowiak, shot two of these films. Costner; Thirteen Days (2000) and Madsen; Species (1995). What's more Bartkowiak shot Donaldson's Dante's Peak (1997).

[russell]

One of two 1994's releases starring Kevin Costner and Mare Winningham. They also appeared in The War (1994).

[clayton]

Kevin Costner and Michael Madsen have both worked twice with director Roger Donaldson on two films each. Costner; No Way Out (1987) and Thirteen Days (2000). Madsen; The Getaway (1994) - incidentally released the same year as this film - and Species (1995).