What's your favorite line or scene from the movie "Tombstone"?

[red dog 1]

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"Tombstone" (1993) was directed by George P. Cosmatos, written by Kevin Jarre,
and starred Kurt Russell as Wyatt Earp, Val Kilmer as Doc Holiday, Sam Elliot as Virgil Earp,
Bill Paxton as Morgan Earp, Powers Boothe as Curly Bill Brocius,
Michael Biehn as Johnny Ringo, Charlton Heston as Henry Hooker,
Stephen Lang as Ike Clanton, and Thomas Haden Church as Billy Clanton


My favorite scene was when Doc Holiday, drunk as usual, was playing a somber piece on the piano in the bar:
BILLY CLANTON: (Also drunk) Is that "Old Dog Trey"?..Sounds like "Old Dog Trey"
DOC HOLIDAY: Pardon?
BILLY CLANTON: Stephen Foster."Oh, Susannah" "Camptown Races". Stephen stinking Foster!
DOC HOLIDAY: Ah, yes. Well, this happens to be a nocturne.
BILLY CLANTON: A which?
DOC HOLIDAY: You know, Frederic fucking Chopin.

[DefenseLawyer]

1. Christ almighty!

It's like I'm sittin here playin cards with my brother's kids or something!

[red dog 1]

2. Great line!

I think that was Billy Bob Thornton.

[Aristus]

3. My favorite line is not comedic; it's a little heart-breaking.

Before the shoot-out at Iron Springs:


Jack Johnson: What are you doing here, Doc? You should be home in bed.

Doc Holliday: Wyatt Earp is my friend.

Jack Johnson: I've got a lot of friends.

Doc Holliday: ......I don't.....

[red dog 1]

9. That was a great line.

[Glorfindel]

4. Val Kilmer gave one of the best performances ever in "Tombstone"

JOHNNY RINGO: (He was actually expecting Wyatt Earp) Welllll......I didn't think you had it in you.
DOC HOLLIDAY: I'm your huckleberry. Why, Johnny Ringo. You look like somebody just walked over your grave.

[The Second Stone]

6. A truly great performance, and

in my opinion, Kilmer's best.

Dennis Quaid played Doc Holliday in Wyatt Earp with Kevin Costner within about a year. It was also a fantastic performance.

[red dog 1]

12. Val Kilmer was also great playing Jim Morrison in "The Doors"

but I'm inclined to agree with you that his performance as Doc Holiday was his best ever.

In the Kevin Costner movie "Wyatt Earp", Dennis Quaid was outstanding as Doc Holiday, IMO.

[red dog 1]

10. "I'm your huckleberry" might be the best line in the entire movie.

[2naSalit]

15. That was favorite line (Doc's) and scene.

[The Second Stone]

5. Lot's of good ones, including already mentioned, which I won't repeat

Pull that smokewagon!

No. No! NO! NO!

My hypocrisy only extends so far.

That is a damned thing to say. (In response to this ain't your fight, Doc.)

[red dog 1]

11. "Go ahead, skin it! Skin that smokewagon and see what happens"

JOHNNY TYLER (Billy Bob Thornton)
"M-mister, I'm gettin' tired of your.."

WYATT EARP:
(slaps Tyler across the face)
"I'm gettn' tired of all your gas, now jerk that pistol and go to work!"

[Bryan]

7. "It appears my hypocrisy knows no bounds."

RIP George Cosmatos. RIP Kevin Jarre.


"What did you ever want?"
"Just to live a normal life."
"There's no normal life, Wyatt, it's just life. Get on with it."

"Wyatt Earp died in Los Angeles in 1929. Among the pallbearers at his funeral were early western stars William S. Hart and Tom Mix. Tom Mix wept."

[red dog 1]

8. Wyatt Earp lived a long life, and never got shot......Amazing!

I should edit the post to point out that Kevin Jarre wrote the screenplay and was the original director.

One day, when I was a kid living in San Francisco, my dad saw on the front page of the inewspaper that Wyatt Earp was buried in one of the two Jewish cemeteries in Colma, CA...(just south of SF), so he suggested that we drive down to see if we could find his tombstone, and we did. (It took a while to locate it)

[The Second Stone]

13. My grandparents and their eldest are buried in the same cemetary

Never visited Earp's grave.

[red dog 1]

14. A writer friend of mine wrote about going there to find Wyatt Earp's grave in 1992

"Tracking A Legend"
Simple Cemetery Marker Recalls The Romance Of Wyatt Earp

By Larry Tritten

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1992-07-19/travel/9203050006_1_josephine-earp-headstones-jewish-cemetery

[pokerfan]

16. Evidently Mr. Ringo's an educated man. Now I really hate him.

Doc Holliday: And you must be Ringo. Look, darling, Johnny Ringo. The deadliest pistoleer since Wild Bill, they say. What do you think, darling? Should I hate him?

Kate: You don't even know him.

Doc Holliday: Yes, but there's just something about him. Something around the eyes, I don't know, reminds me of... me. No. I'm sure of it, I hate him.

Wyatt Earp: (to Ringo) He's drunk.

Doc Holliday: In vino veritas.

("In wine is truth" meaning: "When I'm drinking, I speak my mind&quot

Johnny Ringo: Age quod agis.

("Do what you do" meaning: "Do what you do best&quot

Doc Holliday: Credat Judaeus apella, non ego.

("The Jew Apella may believe it, not I" meaning: "I don't believe drinking is what I do best.&quot

Johnny Ringo: (pats his gun) Eventus stultorum magister.

("Events are the teachers of fools" meaning: "Fools have to learn by experience&quot

Doc Holliday: (gives a Cheshire cat smile) In pace requiescat.

("Rest in peace" meaning: "It's your funeral!&quot

Tombstone Marshal Fred White: Come on boys. We don't want any trouble in here. Not in any language.

Doc Holliday: Evidently Mr. Ringo's an educated man. Now I really hate him.

[Pharlo]

17. "You're so drunk you're probably seeing two of me."

To which Doc replies, "That's alright, I have two guns. I'll shoot both of you."

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

18. Wyatt Earp: [to Ike Clanton]

”You die first, get it? Your friends might get me in a rush, but not before I make your head into a canoe, you understand me?”

Val Kilmer: amazing!
Michael Biehn: an excellent job as well.

[red dog 1]

19. Michael Biehn was outstanding as Johnny Ringo,

and Powers Boothe was also great in the role of Curly Bill Brocius

[unapatriciated]

20. I loved Curly Bill...

for a bad guy he had a great sense of humor and a seemed to love life

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

22. I liked Michael Biehn in Abyss

I kinda liked Wyatt playing Billy C as well.
That was interesting.

[red dog 1]

24. I didn't know that, thanks.

Stephen Lang was also good as Ike Clanton

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

26. Ike was good

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0247449/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t26

Wyatt Earp was born in 1962 in Perkins, Oklahoma, USA. He is an actor, known for Tombstone (1993), Pretty Ugly People (2008) and Sordid Lives: The Series (2008).

Have a nice night.

[unapatriciated]

21. actually the quote is...

Stephen stinking Foster which made Frederick fucking Chopin a funnier line

[red dog 1]

25. Good catch!

I'll fix that now.

[jpak]

23. It would appear that the strain was more than he could bear

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