MY DARLING CLEMENTINE (1946) MOVIE REACTION! 

Victor Mature was an interesting guy. He was applying to a golf club in LA and they turned him down saying they didn’t take actors for members, to which Mature said “I’m no actor and I have 64 movies to prove it”. 😂

"The Ox-Bow Incident" with Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, and Henry Morgan is a western that will haunt you long after it's over. Well worth watching!

This is pure John Ford, the best. His treatment was like the old western that it is.

I like this version of the OK corral showdown. It takes dramatic liberty, but serves the story nicely. Also, director John Ford knew Wyatt Earp well. Wyatt Earp was a technical advisor on westerns, during the silent film era, and he worked with Ford on several films. Walter Brennan is a big plus in this film as he plays old man Clanton. This is a big change from Brennan playing Stumpy in Rio Bravo. Brennan had great range as a character actor. Also, Victor Mature as Doc Holliday and Henry Fonda, both excellent as usual.

My favorite part for Henry Fonda was Tom Joad in “The Grapes of Wrath “.

Linda Darnell as Chihuahua. Exotic looks, a difficult life and a tragic premature end. - Tim Holt as Virgil Earp. He costarred in a couple of very famous movies from the 40's but most of his time was spent starring in RKO B westerns, 46 of them. - John Ireland as Billy Clanton. A solid supporting actor with a lot of history, you've seen him before in 'Red River' and he went on to play Johnny Ringo in 'Gunfight at the O.K. Corral' 1957. - Jane Darwell, the lady who wanted to nurse Chihuahua after she was shot was in over 100 major movies. She played Henry Fonda's mom in 'The Grapes of Wrath' 1940, a truly great movie. - Walter Brennan also played the heavy in 'The Westerner' 1940, he won his third Oscar for that one.

I'm from an earlier generation, so this is the first OK Corral treatment I saw. I can understand your generation's difficulty in leaving behind the historical account, and immersing in a very John Ford retelling. But this remains my favorite, after seeing all the others. I just love the lighting Ford had the cinematographer use. It's actually, very much, a film noir western. It also is lit a lot like Ford's earlier groundbreaking, non western films The Informer and The Long Journey Home. It's a spectacular use of German Expressionist lighting techniques in a western, almost desert environment.

John Ford's favorite film site; Monuments Valley. is so beautiful! Its definitely a must see and a good addition to any Grand Canyon trip even though its a couple hundred miles away.

You might want to watch “The Ox-Bow Incident” (1942) starring Henry Fonda. It’s a tremendous- and often overlooked - classic.

A Henry Fonda film you may enjoy is called A Big Hand for the Little Lady (1966) with Joanne Woodward.

In this movie Doc was described as "the best surgeon" by Clementine shortly after she arrived.

Victor Mature as Doc…He was a big star in the 40’s and 50’s. This was Henry Fonda’s first movie after serving in World War II. Walter Brennen played an excellent villain in this movie. You should check out his performance alongside Gary Cooper in Sargent York. Brennen won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his performance as “the parson”. 😊👍🏼

A good western, with Henry Fonda and Jimmy Stewart, is "The Cheyenne Social Club".

Walter Brennan was a good as they get. So often relegated to supporting roles, he could truly deliver in movies like this, or in "The Westerner", where he plays Judge Roy Bean. I first saw him in the very fun Western parody "Support Your Local Sheriff", very late in his career, and he was just as great and reliable as he ever was. The funny thing about your observation on Fonda and how you first saw him is the Leone cast Fonda as the villain because of the irony of seeing the lovely, gentle, good Henry Fonda as a terrible man. So you are getting the opposite lens effect. Victor Mature was my first Doc Holliday. And I confess that, when watching movies (real life is different) based on Earp and OK Corral, it's always Doc Holliday who attracts me: Kirk Douglas, Victor Mature, Val Kilmer .... there is something about the man as he comes across in movies that intrigues me more than Earp.

There's no attention to historical detail in Clementine like there is in Wyatt Earp (1994) or Tombstone (1993), but it has its moments for me mostly because my journalist father visited the set during production which was bloody difficult to get to in those days and wrote a story on it for worldwide distribution. Ford was much concerned about providing as much employment as possible for the indiginous people who lived in the area where the location shooting took place. Poor Linda Darnell couldn't wait for her part to be completed so she could get back to civilization -- they really were out in the middle of nowhere with few if any then-modern conveniences.

I’ve never seen this movie but wanted to leave you a comment saying I love it that you chose a movie from such a long time ago. Most reactors watch the same movies and don’t venture much outside of what they think is popular Best wishes👍🏻

Another interesting interpretation is “Gunfight At The OK Coral” with Burt Lancaster as Wyatt Earp and Kirk Douglas as Doc Holiday , Directed by John Sturges (another great director but not as celebrated these days).

The best telling of this story.

Those of us who are older know the good Henry Fonda from all his wonderful roles. We were SHOCKED to see him as the villain in ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST. That's what made it so good. Victor Mature plays Doc Holiday and did a magnificent job. You've got to see Kirk Douglas in the role in GUNFIGHT AT THE OK CORRAL. Doc Holiday is a great role and all the actors that played him do a great job.

That’s funny Fonda was the all American hero type who took the villain part in Once Upon a Time in the West to do something different for once in his career.❤

This movie was worked into the plot of an episode of MASH, with the unit trying to watch it in the middle of a rainstorm.

You ought to see The Ox-Bow Incident (1943), Jesse James (1939) and The Return of Frank James (1940). And maybe for dessert, Destry Rides Again (1939). Assuming you've already seen Stagecoach (1939).

Ward Bond played Virgil. He is best known for being the lead in the TV series "Wagon Train" and you probably know him for playing Bert the cop in "It's A Wonderful Life." Bond played second or third male lead in a bunch of movies. Ngl, I'd watch Linda Darnell read the user agreement for Microsoft Office for a good 10 minutes. But Rita Hayworth and Ava Gardner were my golden age crushes. They didn't do a lot of Westerns but I think you'd get a huge kick out of Rita in "Gilda" and Ava in "Mogambo." Back then the movie studios often tied movies to song titles, even if the connection was tenuous at best. This is probably an example of that.

Col Potter’s favourite movie. Great episode of MASH

This was the only John Ford film in which Walter Brennan appeared. Brennan did not enjoy the experience because he found the director’s sense of humor to be sadistic.

Henry Fonda always played a hero, the exception in his older age was once upon a Time in the west

Eureka! Though some may point out some difference in historical accuracy, My Darling Clementine (1946) may be one of The Most Romantic Westerns Ever (The Sheer Love of the Western Film). John Ford, Monument Valley, The Actors, Cinemaphotography, Period Dress, Dialog, Memorable Scenes (including IMO, one of The Most Romantic Scenes Put on Film). This Reaction should be again one for The Sheer Love of Westerns, Gather Round. :)

You can start a complete series of Earp movies. Randolph Scott played Earp in 1939's Frontier Marshal. The next movie about the legendary tale is 1959's Gunfight at the OK Corral by John Sturges [The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape]. Sturges didn't like how he depicted the titular gunfight, so in 1967 he made Hour of the Gun, with James Garner in his first time as Wyatt. His second time was 1988's Sunset, set in 1929, with Bruce Willis as Tom Mix. The narration of Tombstone spoke of Mix as one of Earp's Pall Bearers.

So glad you did this one -due to the title I had no idea it was a Wyatt Earp movie (historical accuracy or not) but wow I did enjoy this. “The Oldspice of the Old West.” 😄

I like the part when Henry looks in the window and you can hear him thinking "Damn I do look good!"

"The Ox-Bow Incident" (1943, black and white) from the critically acclaimed and best selling novel of the same name, starring Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Harry Morgan, and Anthony Quinn, is an interesting and chilling story about vigilante justice. Movie ratings: IMDb 8/10, Amazon 4.7 out of 5, Rotten Tomatoes 92 %. A western with an actual theme. You might want to give it a watch.

James is the brother that got shot, they made him the youngest brother but in actuality he was the oldest

Director John Ford promoted this film as a true version of the events of Tombstone. He had known Wyatt Earp in his youth and claimed that the way the OK Corral gunfight was staged in this film was the way Earp himself explained it to him. The events of the film are of course just Ford's vision, but this film is a true classic and one of Ford's best westerns. - One of the most legendary John Ford moments was when he stood up during a meeting of the Directors Guild of America and introduced himself (of course everyone knew very well who he was): "My name is John Ford. I make Westerns." - Shivers.

I think Ford had to bring Fonda (Wyattt) and Cathy Downs (Clementine) back out to Monument Valley to shoot that last scene between them after primary filming had already completed. Ford was having trouble with producer Darryl Zanuck and had to modify the film to make the story work to everyone's satisfaction.

As a biographical account, oh boy, did they drop the ball. However, it's a great fictional film.

This is such a beautiful movie to watch on the big screen

Ironic you mentioning 'Once Upon a Time in the West' The main reason Sergio Leone used Fonda was to have the totally opposite effect - after all the sympathetic roles he played the audience was supposed to be shocked by his playing a villain.

I know it's not historically accurate but Ford does such a great job of creating the setting and populating it with great characters I could watch the church dance scene forever e r. And Brennan makes a great villain.

My favorite Henry Fonda - John Ford film...................FINALLY someone from Madison's patrons suggested this classic. The only film I've seen Walter Brennan playing a bad dude rather than a comedic sidekick !!

Clementine represents the hope both men had. One from the past and one for the future. Or something like that. Doc dying is his tragic ending. Kind of Shakespearean.

Can't wait! I feel like Flounder in Animal House when he said, all giddy, "Oh boy is this great!" 😊

You really ought to check out the 1956 western: “LAST TRAIN FROM GUN HILL”.

I saw this movie years ago at a college screening. There was a change at the end. The studio added a post-production insert, where Wyatt hugs Clementine instead of shakes her hand (which was the original version and the one here). This was apparently due to screeners wanting more interaction between Wyatt and Clementine, than what John Ford intended.

Of course it is the John Ford /John Wayne collaboration that most people talk about, but the John Ford /Henry Fonda collaboration is a very strong second. Chronologically their films are Drums Along The Mohawk, Young Abe Lincoln, The Grapes Of Wrath, Fort Apache and Mister Roberts. There is a couple more but these five are the best. I know they lost their friendship during Mister Roberts but not sure why

Looking good all cowgirled up, Madison. This was my second OK Corral movie. Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas. Song by Frankie LaIne. Also misrepresentational. These movies led to my disappointment when I went to Tombstone and learned the true story. Hollywood storytelling at its peak. So thankful that TOMBSTONE and WYATT EARP were more accurate. Evil Walter Brennan as Judge Roy Bean with Gary Cooper. Walter was in dozens of westerns. Loved him as Jimmy Stewart's side kick in the FAR COUNTRY. Victor Mature as Doc. He really liked playing a strong guy. Great as Samson. More than 50 shows out there for viewing. I think among his last was playing Samson's father. Henry made a number if westerns. Two or three with Jimmy Stewart. CHEYENNE SOCIAL CLUB is my favorite. Thanks for sharing.

Fun fact, John Ford actually knew Wyatt Earp

I love your channel. I am from Alabama. Just west of Tuscaloosa. I now live near Mobile. I was a teacher for 25 years until I became disabled. Hope your channel continues to grow.

This film was based on “Frontier Marshal” by Stuart N. Lake, which had previously been filmed under that title with Randolph Scott as Earp and Cesar Romero as Doc. It also formed the basis of the 1950’s TV series “The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp” starring Hugh O’Brien.

It's a John Ford film. He directed The Searchers. This director influenced many modern filmmakers but called himself merely as a director of westerns.

There's a Henry Fonda that isn't well known called Warlock. Fonda plays a town tamer with Anthony Quinn as his partner. Richard Widmark is in it too. All 3 have great performances. It's a shame that the movie isn't better known

The best version of this story is “Gunfight At The OK Corral” with Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas.

Burt Lancaster, and Joel McRae also played Wyatt among others

Classic Hollywood. With at least 10 new movies coming out a week, movies had to stand out or feel comfortable to see. Having a movie with a known song for its title helped , at least the studios believed, create ticket sales. Of course it’s fiction … this is the Hollywood Dream Factory. You have contract actors getting paid, behind the scenes professionals on contracts, and studio owned theatres needing to fill their screens . It was about entertainment, not authenticity. When you watch a Western or any action movie before 1965 try to remember the great line in Liberty Valence, “ This is the west, when the legend becomes fact, print the legend” This allows you to just sit back and have a great time. Your reactions are great

Doc is Victor Mature

Just subscribed to your channel, after watching three of your reaction videos recently. I'm a 56 year old Irishman. When I was younger, Westerns were one of my least favorite films. Over the last 15 years I've completely changed my perspective on them. I now deeply appreciate the more leisurely pace of most westerns. I enjoy the marvelous landscapes contrasted with the intimate focus on the sparse dialogue and body language of the characters. It's a kind of meditative, reflective way of telling stories and revealing personalities.

Many people (in fact, probably most) preferred “Tombstone” to the 1992 Costner version “Wyatt Earp” but, me, I actually preferred the latter. I felt it was grittier, more down to earth and with downbeat undertones, considering Earp’s almost depressive state.

The mention of Deadwood reminded me that that would be a terrific show for you to watch either on the channel, or on your own

Victor Mature was excellent in The Robe. Definitely a movie you should watch

Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

Fonda usually played the good guy but my personal favourite of his westerns is "Jesse James". He always gave great performances, including: "12 Angry Men."

Walter Brennan played the stereotypical old comedic cowboy sidekick type so well, but he was also a multiple Academy Award winning actor. He got his teeth kicked out in one film by accident, which he considered a lucky break for his career because he could take out his false teeth any time and magically look forty years older. As a young man he was already the go-to guy to play old cranky men, sometimes with bad teeth. One of his greatest achievements (before he hit it big) may be his uncredited role as father to Moe, Larry and Curly in the Three Stooges short, Restless Knights. As an old man on his deathbed he confesses to his three boys that they are of noble blood and sends them off to serve the queen of Anasthesia. Later, he would be the old man who sends Gary Cooper off to fight WWI in Sgt York. 25 years after Clementine, he played basically the same character as his old man Clanton in the western comedy Support Your Local Sheriff with James Garner, as old man Danby.

You clearly know your westerns. I think you love Fort Apache, another John Ford western with Henry Fonda as well as John Wayne and a 19-year-old Shirley Temple. Great movie.

At 17:30 Chihuahua splashes herself too, and they kept the shot, anyway.

The grizzled man wearing the kepi is John Ford's older brother Francis. An actor and film Director until films went "talky". Then he just stuck with acting. He was John's mentor in directing. He appears in a lot of JF's films. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, The Quiet Man and others.

A classic.

A western comedy with Walter B . is, Support your local sheriff. Good fun !

Sergeant York is available on TCM in a much better state than I have ever seen. You are probably the only person in the world who could do this move justice.

My favorite shootout from this version is from the movie “Doc” (1971) It’s so cold blooded where the Earps and Doc Holiday are just as bad as the Clantons.

Many movies out there about the Earps

For more Linda Darnell, Mark of Zorro and Hangover Square. Victor Mature, The Las Vegas Story and Samson & Delilah. And Henry Fonda, On Golden Pond and Grapes of Wrath.

Very enjoyable and insightful commentary. But it's funny. It's understandable that some people might view Tombstone as the best Wyatt Earp movie, but Clementine is one of the first Earp movies and it is based on the earliest biographies of Earp. And it should also be noted that there is no such thing as a historically accurate Wyatt Earp movie or TV show. That said, it's been said that a very young John Ford actually met Wyatt Earp and may have heard some stories about Tombstone from the man himself. My Darling Clementine is considered to be one of Ford's finest films, even though the studio re-edited the film and also inserted scenes filmed by another director. Victor Mature was one of the top stars of the 40s and 50s and might be best known to some fans from the biblical spectacular Samson and Delilah. Henry Fonda is simply one of the greatest actors of all time, and his early work, comedy, drama or Western is worth looking into.

Great movie ❤

A mildly entertaining western, if you forget the actual history, and Fonda was top-notch as usual. My favorite account of the Earp/Clanton fued is a documentary-style film called "Appointment With Destiny: Showdown at the O.K. Corral."

'Hour of the Gun' is another choice.

Victor Mature playing a supposedly dying man with TB. Its a 200 lb man. Loved how he coughed continuously but never coughed during Chihuahuas surgery. Gunfight at OK Corral with Kirk Douglas as Doc and Burt Lancaster as Wyatt Earp. Also interesting.

PS to the PS: and forgive me, ALMOST forgot to mention, my absolute FAVORITE moment in this reaction, and possibly any of the many I've watched thus far--a one simple word in reaction to letting Ike ride out of town: "Nevermind!!" I broke up! If was charming, perfect and hilarious !! In all the RIGHT ways! You are a Delight !!!! HUGS! (that's my standard "closer"! My crossdressing trademark! Take good care! Not alot like you around these days! So genuine!!)

Two lesser known but interesting takes are HOUR OF THE GUN, with James Garner and Jason Robards as Earp and Holliday...also DOC with Stacy Keach.

Trivial nitpick : Not only is the history wrong, the geography is as well. Tombstone is in southern Arizona, in the Sonoran desert. Monument Valley is in southern Utah, on the Colorado Plateau. Interestingly the film includes some Saguaro cactus, which are native to the Sonoran desert but aren't native to the Monument valley area. So John Ford (or somebody) must have had them brought in.

Madison, On Oct 26, Starting with the TV show Wyatt Erap, this movie, " GUNFIGHT AT THE O.K. CORRAL", "HOUR OF THE GUN", "WYATT EARP",and "TOMBSTONE "are my tradition. Also this Col. Potter's (of M*A*S*H) favorite movie.

A few notes. Virgil was driving the wagon at the end and Morgan was in a coffin. So, Wyatt was with Morgan were taking him to his parents. Chihuahua was played by Linda Darnell who died in a house fire when she was 41. Played Tyrone Power's love interest in "The Mark of Zorro". Victor Mature played Doc Holiday. When he applied for membership in an exclusive golf club they turned him down saying they do not admit actors. He responded, "I am not an actor and I have 64 films to prove it." James Earp was an older brother of Wyatt and lived until 1926. I love John Ford movies. He claimed the shootout at the O.K. Carrol was done like Wyatt Earp and told him it was done(he knew Wyatt Earp). However, not one historian on the shootout agrees with Ford's version. The shootout lasted about 30 seconds.

You got to see The Professional a great Western with Lee Marvin and Burt Land aster.

It's really strange watching some of the 1950's TV Westerns and none of the Earps or Doc Holliday have mustachios. Every phot of them I've seen they have large, bushy mustachios.

Henry Fonda and Jimmy Stewart in "The Cheyenne Social Club"!!!!

Two other versions worth checking out are Gunfight at the Ok corral starring Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas and Hour of the gun starring James Garner and Jason Robards.

I have to wonder about the cologne Wyatt was wearing? lol They definitely took many liberties with the truth. That's old Hollywood. I enjoy you being so knowledgable about that era

I know what you mean. As a historian I was climbing the walls with irritation. Completely frustrating and distracting. As a movie, it’s good fun. Good performances, classic Ford imagery etc.

You may want to consider reacting to Tombstone. An excellent western, especially Val Kilmer performance as Doc Holliday.

Speaking of Henry Fonda, I must recommend "On Golden Pond" with him and Katharine Hepburn. Oscars for them both! P.S. Fonda played a GREAT Marshall in 1959's "Warlock" with Richard Widmark & Anthony Quinn!

Ever watched My Name is Nobody? It stars Henry Fonda and Terrance (Trinity) Hill.

Its important to note that ain't no "piano" bein' played but rather "Piani!"

Great review! i recently subbed to your channel, im a big western fan of all decades! and i do a lot of western videos! take care

PS: and if you do ever watch Kevin Costner's "Wyatt Earp"--Dennis Quaid's "Doc Holiday" is the best thing in it. Only topped, of course--by Val Kilmer! And if you want a recommendation for a masterpiece from John Ford to watch, let it more than any other be: "How Green Was My Valley"!! Few films with ever effect your range of emotions more than it will--EVER! It's Brilliant!! HUGS!

John Ford wasn't nearly as invested in the OK Corral history as later generations. The broad American public in the late 40s weren't either. Ford was driving home one of his favorite themes, the end of the frontier and it's replacement by progressive civilization. Clementine represents this new order and Wyatt is in her camp. You see this in the dance scene, which Ford uses to show order and community replacing violent chaos. Wyatt and Clementine marching together to the new Church shows this. Wyatt is leaving the frontier behind. The dance is their ritual entry into the community. Doc can't make this transition. He's pulled in different directions. He won't make it to the promised land. The particulars of the OK Corral history take a back seat to Ford's artistic themes.

For a more comical western with Fonda try "My Name is Nobody ".

Classic

You haven’t seen a scary Walter Brennen until you see his first half hour as Judge Roy Bean, the hanging judge, in “The Westerner” (1940), for which he won his third Oscar as best supporting actor. Absolutely chilling. No Earp movie is much good on the history. This one and “Gunfight at the O.K. Corral” are the worst, albeit the most famous until “Tombstone.” A jarring inaccuracy in this for appreciators of old actors is seeing Ward Bond (b. 1903) playing Morgan, the younger brother, and Tim Holt (b.1919) as Virgil, the older brother. The Earp movie that comes closest to real history, I think, is John Sturges’ “The Hour of the Gun” (1967), with James Garner as Wyatt; Jason Robards as a highly believable, cynical Doc; and Robert Ryan as Ike Clanton. Despite its flaws, it has the right spirit of the true story.

Well, this is going to be controversial. I've always preferred this film of Tombstone and the fact that I've never bought Dana Delaney's portrayal of Josie for a second although I like Tombstone and particularly Val's Doc. But Ford is a poetic artist and the film really is about Clementine because she represents the future which was Ford's point about the taming of the West as subtle as it is and then again Ford uses the character of ad of to represent a figure torn between the past and the future of the U.S. He is a man who expresses himself wildly as slick as he is and with great cynicism about any future because of that. So even if it's not historically accurate (although Ford said and actually did know Wyatt Earl and said he got details on what happened at the O.K. Corral) it has as I said a more poetic reflection in my opinion about that old civilization vs. wilderness and the want for a harmonic community represented by what Clementine represents hence the title.

I think you'd enjoy Henry Fonda in Warlock, one of his best performances, in my opinion.

Well, I hadn't seen the movie, so I wasn't going to see the reaction. But, since I just watched it over at Dad's, I might as well watch the reaction now.

Another John Ford film with Henry Fonda and John Wayne is Fort Apache...it's a worthwhile watch.