Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957) Lawman Wyatt Earp (Burt Lancaster) and outlaw Doc Holliday (Kirk Douglas) form an unlikely alliance which culminates in their participation in the legendary Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
Box Office Information:
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral arrived in theaters on May 30th, 1957. During it’s domestic box office run it earned $13.43 million which translates to $202.20 million in today’s ticket sales. Of all the movies released in 1957….Gunfight at the O.K. Corral was the 12th biggest box office hit.
The Main Cast:
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral is ranked 6th of 67 movies on our Burt Lancaster Movie Ranking Page
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral is ranked 4th of 71 movies on our Kirk Douglas Movie Ranking Page
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral is ranked 5th of 42 movies on our John Sturges Movie Ranking Page
Best IMDb trivia on Gunfight at the O.K. Corral:
- The actual gunfight took place on 26 October 1881 and lasted a mere 30 seconds, resulting in three dead men after an exchange of 34 bullets. The fictionalized gunfight in this movie took 4 days to film and produced an on-screen bloodbath that lasted 5 minutes.
- John Ireland (Johnny Ringo) previously played Billy Clanton in My Darling Clementine (1946), another dramatisation of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
- Bing Russell had an uncredited role as a bartender in this movie. His son Kurt Russell would later play Wyatt Earp in Tombstone (1993), another dramatisation of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
