My Darling Clementine

My Darling Clementine follows Wyatt Earp, a former lawman who has moved on to the cattle business with his brothers. While driving their herd west, the brothers camp near Tombstone, and James, the youngest, is left to watch the animals while the others go into town. They return to find the cattle stolen and James killed. Wyatt takes the post of sheriff in Tombstone, swears to remain until the killers are found, and appoints his surviving brothers as deputies, setting him on a collision course with the Clanton family and bringing him into the company of the gambler and gunman Doc Holliday.

John Ford directed, working from a screenplay by Samuel G. Engel and Winston Miller, with Engel producing for 20th Century Fox. The film is the tenth of the thirty-one features Ford directed in chronological order, arriving between They Were Expendable and Fort Apache.

Henry Fonda plays Wyatt Earp, with Victor Mature as Doc Holliday, Linda Darnell as Chihuahua, Cathy Downs as Clementine Carter, Walter Brennan as Old Man Clanton and Tim Holt as Virgil Earp, among fifty-six credited cast members. Made for about two million dollars, it returned roughly three million worldwide. On IMDb it holds 7.7 from 28,000 votes, on TMDB 7.5 from 499 votes, while a critics' rating of 9.2 from 35 reviews sits well above both audience figures.