Jason Robards tackles Doc Holliday and, like practically every other actor who's essayed the role (Mature, Douglas, Kilmer, Quaid), has a grand old time cutting up.

Sturges has the guts to confront a myth he helped perpetuate 10 years earlier in Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, and examines the effects of its morally questionable violence on the men who helped perpetrate it.

...a plodding, turgid affair, drained of life or momentum by an enveloping morbidity...

Depicts folk-hero Wyatt Earp's moral decline from upstanding lawman to someone so filled with hatred that he's bent on personal revenge.