Tombstone Western Film Festival and Symposium
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| Location | Tombstone, Arizona, U.S. |
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| Language | International |
| Website | tombstonewesternfilm |
The Tombstone Western Film Festival and Symposium founded in 2001 was held in July in Tombstone, Arizona, a historic western mining town (and later ghost town) in the U.S. celebrated in western films as the site of the legendary Gunfight at the O.K. Corral between Wyatt Earp and the Clantons and McLaurys.
The program in the first year was devoted to retellings of tales from Tombstone, the second year to classic TV Western. Organizers hoped the festival would allow the town to cash in on various film and TV depictions of events in the town's history. They invited actors such as Hugh O'Brian and Harry Carey Jr. to the event.[1] The 2002 also included book discussions and was funded by the city government rather than private funding.[2]
The 2003 event did not occur as the organizers participated in the Warren Earp Days festival in nearby Willcox instead.[3]
It was reported that the 2005 iteration of the festival would be its last, as the backers had failed to find funding to continue.[4] A reunion of the cast of Little House on the Prairie also occurred at that year's event. Attendees included Melissa Gilbert and Alison Arngrim.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ Barra, Allen (July 25, 2002). "Rustling Up Fans of the Western, Over at the O.K. Corral". The New York Times. pp. E2 – via ProQuest.
- ^ Deardorff, Julie (April 4, 2004). "Progress at the OK Corral: Moseying amid grave markers, the Tribune's Julie Deardorff finds that the town takes its history seriously while trying to move beyond the gunfight". Chicago Tribune. p. 10 – via ProQuest.
- ^ Broeder, Carol (March 25, 2003). "Warren Earp Days celebration to bring 'the stars' to Willcox in July". The Arizona Range News. Willcox – via NewsBank.
- ^ "Fifth Tombstone film festival will be last". Arizona Daily Sun. July 1, 2005. Retrieved October 25, 2021.
- ^ Lacy, Sherri (June 28, 2005). "'Little House' reunion in Tombstone". The Arizona Daily Star. Tucson. pp. E1 – via NewsBank.
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