Infernal Continuation

the infernal Continuation ( My Darling Clementine ) is an American film carried out by John Ford, left in 1946.

Synopsis

1882, with Tombstone (Arizona). The Earp brothers convoient a herd of cattle. An old man of the name of Clanton makes them a proposal for a repurchase. Wyatt Earp refuses it. In the night, whereas the brothers will take good time with Tombstone, the cattle is stolen. Young person out of Earp, which had the guard of it, is killed. Wyatt Earp then agrees to become the Shérif of the city and investigation.

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Distribution

Around film

  • Turning of April 1st mid-June 1946 with Monument Valley and Kayenta.
  • Production costs: 2.235.000 dollars
  • Receipts: 2.750.000 dollars (the United States) and 1.750.000 except the United States.
  • the film is drawn from a true story. These évèvenements mythical and realities of the American West were the subject of many films of which Settling of score with OK Corral . The film of Ford is not a rigorous transcription of the history. The duel did not take place in 1882, but in 1881, Earp forever convoyed cattle with Tombstone, the Clanton old man had already died when the duel took place… But historical reality imports little at Ford, which interests it is the passage of nature to civilization, of Far-West in America in change. The old man Clanton and Doc. Holliday symbolizes the old world, while Wyatt Earp incarnates modern America, that of the law and the order.
  • the film lasted more than two hours, but Darryl F. Zanuck practiced many cuts.
  • In connection with Wyatt Earp, Ford declared with Peter Bogdanovich: “I knew Wyatt Earp in the first years of the silent film. Sometimes it came during the year to return visit to his comrades and cow-boys whom they had known in Tombstone. A part of them belonged to our company. At the time, I believe that I was assistant accessories supplier. I was accustomed to giving him a chair and a cup of coffee. He spoke to me about the battle of OK Corral. Thus, when I turned the infernal Continuation , I reconstituted it such as it had taken place. The adversaries were not satisfied to go in the street and to draw above, it was a true military operation.”
  • the choice of Henry Fonda for the character of Wyatt Earp is particularly judicious so much it is accustomed to incarnate for Ford of the emblematic figures of American civilization ( Young Mr. Lincoln and in Grapes of anger ). In a maintenance gone back to 1984 and included in the Ford special issue of the Books of the cinema, Winston Miller, one of both scenario writer of film declares in connection with the relation between Ford and Fonda: “Ford liked its step. He adored to follow a man. He could have looked at Fonda going throughout a street. It was a single step. In other words, the style of Founded completely agreed to the style of Ford” . The composition of Founded remained unforgettable.
  • the song My Darling Clementine is a melody of the Western American. It was adapted by Cyril J. Mockridge.

Approximations of film

  • the age of the Earp brothers is inaccurate. In film, James is a teenager, Virgil has a score of years, Wyatt is thirty years old and Morgan is oldest. In fact, at the time of the battle of OK Corral, James was 40 years old, Virgil 38 years, Wyatt 33 years and Morgan 30 years. There was also a younger brother, Warren, who is absent from film.

  • Wyatt is represented like the sheriff of Tombstone, and Virgil and Morgan like its assistants. In fact, Virgil was the sheriff of the city (according to certain sources, its title was " chief of the police"), and Wyatt and Morgan were its assistants.
  • One can see in the film James and Virgil to be made kill: James during the flight of cattle, and Virgil of a ball in the back before the final battle. Actually, James is deceased in 1926 and Virgil survived the battle, for then being wounded during an attempted murder, which is a revenge with OK Corral. Only Earp to die in Tombstone is Morgan, several months after the settling of score.
  • Doc. Holliday was neither doctor nor surgeon, but it had in fact a diploma for the occupation of dentist.
  • One sees Doc. Holliday seriously wounded and dying at the end of the battle. He actually survived a benign wound and died only in 1887 of tuberculosis, in Colorado.
  • the Clanton old man is described as being an important protagonist in the conflict between Earp and Clanton, and takes share with the battle. Actually, it was killed in August 1881, well before the battle of OK Corral does not take place.
  • One can see Billy Clanton being made kill before the battle of OK Corral, whereas it was killed there. Moreover, Ike Clanton, as well as the other Clanton brothers, did not die in OK Corral as the film shows it.
  • Wyatt Earp and Doc. Holliday met not in Tombstone as the film shows it, but several years before with Fort Griffin, in Texas, about 1876-1877, and were already friendly when both arrived at Tombstone.
  • the Earp brothers are depicted as stockbreeders who stop by chance with Tombstone to supply itself and to be made shave. They had in fact envisaged to settle there to make deals with the very many complaints concerning the money plays and the concession minings.
  • the battle did not last several minutes as one can believe it, it summarized oneself with a thirty seconds shooting at most.
  • Wyatt Earp was not the single person not described by John Ford, it arrived at Tombstone with his wife (in the same way for her brothers), and it fell in love with an actress, Josephine Marcus, during its stay.

Rewards

The film was registered with the National Film Registry in 1991

External bond

  • infernal Continuation on Internet Movie Database

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