Doc (film)

{{ Infobox Film | Title =Doc | Poster =Doc poster.jpg | Cast = Stacy Keach
Faye Dunaway
Harris Yulin
Michael Witney
Denver John Collins |Director =Frank Perry |Writer =Pete Hamill | Time =96 minutes | Company =United Artists |Country =Spain

Doc is a 1971 American outlaw Western starring Stacy Keach, Faye Dunaway and Harris Yulin. It was directed by Frank Perry and written from a work by Pete Hamill. Rated R, filmed in Spain with United Artists, 96 min.

Plot

Doc Holliday(Stacy Keach) and Katie Elder(Faye Dunaway) spend time at the Continental Hotel to find Wyatt Earp(Harris Yulin), who is now deputy marshall and is striving to become sheriff of Tombstone in the election campaign. Virgil Earp (John Bottoms) is city marshall. Wyatt started out as a lawman in Ellsworth,Kansas. He then become a lawman in the bigger Wichita,Kansas with the legendary Bartholomew "Bat" Masterson.Then Wyatt got his legendary status as a shootist in Dodge City,Kansas. Finally he made his journey to Tombstone because of Cochise county sheriff John Behan. Along the way followed Doc Holliday, Virgil and Morgan Earp, two brothers of Wyatt. The "Cowboys" were Ike Clanton, Tom and Frank McClaury and Billy Claiborne. Actually the movie diverts itself from the gunfight to talk about other occurances.Ike beats on Wyatt bad.Doc banadges him. Katie starts out the narrative all dirty and smoking opium with Ike. She ends it traveling the desert on horseback with Doc and no water.Also in the cave Doc tells Katie he was a dentist.Doc teaches The Kid(Denver John Collins). how to shoot a pistol.He tells him he first lived in Atlanta, then, as his mother told him, he went to Baltimore to be a dentist. Then he went out west.He said he felt like a teacher with The Kid.Then Clanton was with the other Clanton's when Wyatt was duking it with Ike and Doc was watching.At one point in the movie, Doc is smoking opium heavely.John Behan(Richard Mckenzie),Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday all survive Gunfight at the OK Corrall.Ike Clanton,Tom and Frank McClaury and Billy Claiborne all don't survive. Wyatt then says there will be a few changes in store for Tombstone. John 'Doc' Holliday dies of consumption or what is rare now tuberculosis of the lungs in 1887. He was born in 1852.

Cast

• Stacy Keach as 'Doc' Holliday
• Faye Dunaway as Katie Elder
• Harris Yulin as Wyatt Earp
• Michael Witney as Ike Clanton
• Denver John Collins as The Kid
• Dan Greenburg as Clum,Editor Tombstone Epitaph
• John Scanlon as Bartlett,Saloon Owner
• Richard Mckenzie as Tombstone Sheriff John Behan
• John Bottoms as Virgil Earp
• Ferdinand Zogbaum as James Earp
• Penelope Allen as Mattie Earp
• Hedy Sontag as Alley Earp
• James Greene as Frank McLowery
• Antonia Rey as Concha,Whore
• Philip Shafer as Morgan Earp

Common Themes

• Cockfights, like in another later UA movie, Heaven's Gate, was featured in Doc
• Katie and Doc sleeping in a cave after a long desert day
• There is a few graphic language scenes,like the one in the cave and the one with the woman preachers and all the on-scene fights

Awards

Doc won the 1971 Western Writers of America Spur Award for Best Movie Script for Peter Hamill.

External Links

1. Doc 1971 film at ==the Internet Movie Database==

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