My Darling Clementine

Name: My Darling Clementine
Released: 1946-12-3
Cast: Henry Fonda, Linda Darnell, Victor Mature, Walter Brennan, Tim Holt

NR
1h 36m
1946

100%

age 10+

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Henry Fonda, Victor Mature and Walter Brennan co-star in director John Ford's acclaimed film that climaxes with the famous gunfight at O.K. Corral. Fonda plays Wyatt Earp, the former gunslinger who heads west for a peaceful life of ranching. But when tragedy forces Wyatt to become the law in Tombstone, he and his brothers join Doc Holiday for one of the most storied battles of the Wild West.

Director:

John Ford

Producer:

Samuel G. Engel

Writer:

Samuel Engel, Winston Miller

Cast:

Henry Fonda, Linda Darnell, Victor Mature, Walter Brennan, Tim Holt, Cathy Downs, Ward Bond, Alan Mowbray, John Ireland, Roy Roberts, Jane Darwell, Grant Withers, J. Farrell MacDonald, Russell Simpson

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

100%

Critics Consensus: Canny and coolly confident, My Darling Clementine is a definitive dramatization of the Wyatt Earp legend that shoots from the hip and hits its target in breezy style.

Reviews

El Pais (Spain)

Diego Galán

My Darling Clementine continues to be a solid movie where the Western acquires a curious perspective of the ordinary. [Full Review in Spanish]

Slow-paced tale of Old West shootout has violence.

June 25, 2017

FULL REVIEW

ReelTalk Movie Reviews

Donald J. Levit

If less than its outsized reputation, this Western is still a fun view, particularly in Joe MacDonald's austere camerawork in Monument Valley.

Simple in its storytelling while transcendent as a poem of rhythms, bonds and values.

generally considered the Wyatt Earp film against which all others are judged

June 25, 2017

FULL REVIEW

Common Sense Media

age 10+

Common Sense Says

Slow-paced tale of Old West shoot-out has violence.

What Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that My Darling Clementine is a 1946 classic that features the lawlessness, vengeance, and gunplay typical of movies about the Old West. Considered to be one of director John Ford's masterpieces, the story mythologizes Marshall Wyatt Earp and the infamous shootout at the OK Corral. The movie helped promote many of the visual and narrative ploys now thought of as clichés of the genre, and young students of film may appreciate seeing their roots. Native Americans are viewed by the white town folk as dangerous and irresponsible. Language is tame by today's standards, but men here engage in violent, antisocial behavior, gambling, drinking, and consorting with prostitutes. (The last activity will probably go over the heads of younger children.) Kids used to quick-paced, computer-enhanced visuals may find the black-and-white photography and lyrical pace unattractively retro.