Former lawman Wyatt Earp, his two brothers and friend Doc Holliday settle in the town of Tombstone in order to lead a profitable and peaceful life but soon come into conflict with the Cowboys, a band of outlaws led by the Clanton brothers. This retelling of the Earp/Clanton feud also follows up the gunfight at the O.K. Corral with a look at the bloody consequences of the showdown.

Director George P. Cosmatos is quoted as saying that all lightning and mustaches are real.

Curly Bill:
[takes a bill with Wyatt's signature from a customer and throws it on the faro table] Wyatt Earp, huh? I heard of you.


Ike Clanton:
Listen, Mr. Kansas Law Dog. Law don't go around here. Savvy?


Wyatt Earp:
I'm retired.


Curly Bill:
Good. That's real good.


Ike Clanton:
Yeah, that's good, Mr. Law Dog, 'cause law don't go around here.


Wyatt Earp:
I heard you the first time.

[flips a card]


Wyatt Earp:
Winner to the King, five hundred dollars.


Curly Bill:
Shut up, Ike.


Johnny Ringo:
[Ringo steps up to Doc] And you must be Doc Holliday.


Doc Holliday:
That's the rumor.


Johnny Ringo:
You retired too?


Doc Holliday:
Not me. I'm in my prime.


Johnny Ringo:
Yeah, you look it.


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"]


Johnny Ringo:
Age quod agis.

["Do what you do" meaning: "Do what you do best"]


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."]


Johnny Ringo:
[pats his gun] Eventus stultorum magister.

["Events are the teachers of fools" meaning: "Fools have to learn by experience"]


Doc Holliday:
[gives a Cheshire cat smile] In pace requiescat.

["Rest in peace" meaning: "It's your funeral!"]


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.

Factual errors: Curly Bill Brocius is shown as the leader of the "cowboys" prior to the arrival of the Earps. In truth, the "cowboy" band was under the control of "Old Man" Clanton until his death, during a rustling expedition into Mexico, about 1-1/2 years after the Earps arrived.

by Camille Saint-Saëns
(Accompanying music in the theatre sequence)