What happened to “Doc” Holliday after 1957 – part 1

Doc (1971)

It’s just remarkable how far away from the actual history can be a move that claims to “finally” tell the true story. That movie is “Doc” (1971) – a typical for it’s time revisionist western and an otherwise mediocre film at best.

“Doc” there is a victim of a very greedy cold-hearted Wyatt. “Doc’s” only desire is to leave with Kate to California, settle down with her and have kids together. Probably, the real historical Kate would love this version of events, but it certainly doesn’t have anything to do with the truth.

The film is trying to win over its audience by putting the legend of the Gunfight at the OK Corral to its head and presenting the Clantons as a herd of innocent lambs, who were surrendering at the OK Corral at the first request from the Earps and despite that slaughtered by the Earp brothers and the reluctantly participating “Doc”.

Doc (1971)

John Wayne – The whole idea of our business is illusion.

The whole idea of our business is illusion. They’re getting away from that now putting electric squibs in livers and blowing them up in slow motion and having blood all over everything. I mean it’s not that there is more violence in the pictures today, it’s that it’s done with such a bad taste! That people turn their stomachs not their emotional insides are affected. That turns their stomachs.

John Wayne, 1975