Tombstone 1993 - The Making Of Tombstone Full HQ 

Agreed!

Hey! Say something we ALL don't know! Lol. There's maybe 2 or 3 parts that an actor was not only born for but just literally knocks it out of the atmosphere. Val as Holiday, Heath Ledger as the Joker of course, & Christoph Waltz as Hans Landa in Inglorious Bastards. Sure, there may be a few others but these 3 come to mind. Ok, I HAVE TO ADD: Peter Dinklage as Tyrion Lannister.

I completely agree with you 💯

Absolutely by far unforgettable performance

Agreed, of all the movies that and all the people that win those awards it's never the ones I have on the shelf and most certainly isn't the ones I watch over and over with the exception of the excellent work of Clint Eastwood. Top Westerns of all times: Outlaw Josey Wales, Pale Rider, Tombstone, The Unforgiven, Dances With Wolves and I do like the Costner version of Wyatt Earp. To be fair about it, I like long versions to tell the whole story and I've read as many books about the life of Wyatt Earp as I could find. I'm 5'6" 140lbs, I was a bouncer and I used what I call Wyatt Earp'ism and it worked extremely well. Given the physical frailty and mental dexterity of Doc Holiday, of course he was one of my all time favourites too. There are other great westerns, I thoroughly enjoyed the new Magnificent Seven, for example, but I think those I listed above aren't just some of the Greatest Westerns, they are some of the Greatest Movies ever made, at least, by my account and being 51 years old, I was only 21 when Tombstone was made. Val Kilmer will always be Doc Holiday to me and thus, what a job he did as a great actor.

Yeah he got screwed he did In my book

His portrayal of Doc Holiday is pure genius.

Val Kilmer’s portrayal of Doc Holiday is as immortal as Doc Holiday.

It was an amusing portrayal, but to suggest that it was worthy of an Oscar nomination is to suggest that you don't know what acting is.

@@arthurneddysmith I’ll brush off your insult because you are obviously an idiot to have made it. But just to be clear, whether you are a student of Shakespeare, Stanislavsky or Strasberg the ultimate test of good acting is verisimilitude. Kilmer studied the dialect of Holiday as well as his character thoroughly and delivered as believable of a portrayal as any I’ve ever seen. He deserved recognition for it. As for the Oscars, it is all about politics and money. Many great performances get snubbed every year. Personally I can’t stand to watch it. My wife was a graduate of UCLA film school. Her classmates included Tim Robbins(an Oscar winner whom she dated at the time) and other working actors and producers. We discuss every movie we watch. But in the end it is a subjective matter.

Very Well said .....

Very Well said.....💖

Stephen Lang was awesome as Ike Clanton!!!

One of my favorite movies ever. SO good!!!

Val Kilmer, Michael Biehn, and Powers Booth stood out for me in this movie. Interaction between Bell, Kilmer and Michael Biehn (Doc Holliday & Ringo) was priceless.

It's the coldest thing Curly could have said. Especially since historically, Curly was in jail for killing White at the time of Ok Corral gunfight and wasn't a part of the murder of Morgan. No other actor played Curly better!

I’ve quoted him saying that in several threads here on RU-vid!

Makes me wanna watch Red Dawn, or By Dawn’s early light

​@@NoticerOfficial Southern Comfort. 👍

Me too lol

The was a comment darlin'. Evidently, Mr. David is an educated man. How I really hate him.

David you can be our Huckleberry....

For sure his best. Also notables The Saint and Top Gun to quickly name two. But Tombstone? I agree...golden.

He was the best Batman!!

^ Truth. It's one of the most perfect roles ever committed to celluloid.

I think Val is/was a method actor. That could be why he seemed to be living his character.

He was a method actor so he was likely in character when he did this interview.

@@cherylevans6355 Kilmer is still a method actor.

That wasn’t Val speaking about Doc. That was Doc Holliday speaking about himself.

Val Kilmer in character there. He's fantastic in this film.

It's remarkable to me how Westerns were pronounced dead,that Hollywood forgot how to do em when by far most of the best westerns were made in the later decades....if you ask me anyway....Not that I can't still be entertained watching spagheti westerns and Clint westerns in general and such but the really old "classics" mostly have become hard to watch they are so corn dog goody two shoes. But man really entertaining well done westerns have just kept coming better than ever IMHO

This documentary really changed my thinking about acting and doing a good job of it. It did not change my mind about the self proclaimed importance of their thinking on political issues. Tombstone was and still is a great movie.

@@dougiequick1 great point because the John Wayne westerns and Clint Eastwood westerns weren’t as good as Tombstone.

Just watched it again One of the best westerns of all time

The original script was so much better than the movie. Director cut so many scenes that would have better developed all the characters. It's a good movie. What it could have been is what is so disappointing.

Did you look at the nominated list for best actor & best supporting actor? There was some massive talent that year, including Liam Neeson in Schindler's List.

@@Caseytifylisten all due respect to Liam but I come across fans of tombstone and Val Kilmers as doc Holliday quite a bit especially for a movie that’s 30 years old. I never hear mention of Liam’s character or performance until your comment. Also I think SL was overrated simply because of sensitivity to the subject matter. Those type of films are always fawned over by critics and award shows

Yeah yeah we know

Really goes to show the Oscars are meaningless. It always goes to the medias darling of the moment. Just like the mediocre Forrest Gump winning best picture over the game changing Pulp Fiction

@@Spooky_515Forrest Gump was an amazing movie. I’m sorry I disagree. Pulp Fiction is great too but Forrest Gump deserved what it got. The Oscars are an absolute joke now. All the diversity guidelines just to be considered. FJB!!!

He was nominated, but he didn't win. An absolute travesty and when I really began to hate the Academy and the Oscars.

@@GirlWithAnOpinion He was nominated? I must’ve forgotten. I read his autobiography this year and he didn’t mention a nomination. He said he was never nominated for anything. He deserved one for The Doors, where he actually sang all the songs unlike Ramy Malik.

Nah...they were too busy trying to figure out how to give another to Tom Hank's or Robert DeNiro.. or some such over-lauded jerk.

@@GirlWithAnOpinion I’ve always hated the Oscar’s anyways

Tombstone is a documentary movie about WYATT EARP AND DOC HOLIDAY AND THE OK CORRAL AND THERE'S ANOTHER MOVIE ABOUT THE SAME TOPIC, IT'S CALLED, " WYATT EARP WITH KEVIN COSTNER",TWO OF THE BEST WESTERN DOCUMENTARY MOVIE'S ABOUT WYATT EARP AND DOC HOLIDAY.

Agreed

I always liked his voice also he had that narrator’s voice.

He was definitely one of the all-time greats.

First time I saw Powers Boothe was in the 80's classic, "Red Dawn". He always stood out to me even though his roll was secondary.

@@leekeyser1968He also appeared as Alexander Haig (1924-2010) in the film Nixon (1995) for which he was nominated. Nominated-Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.

I always remember Powers Boothe as Philip Marlowe, private eye. 🕵‍♂️

Also: “ I’ll be your huckleberry” “Bye”

I said draw down boy!!

@@toferj7441 I think he says “I said throw down, boy”. That whole scene really makes the movie.

Where you going with that there SHOTGUN " ALSO, YOU GOING TO SKIN THAT THERE SMOKE WAGON OR ARE YOU JUST GONNA STAND THERE AND BLEED" AFTER HE BITCH slapped him three times. Billy bob Thornton.

Are you gonna do something or just stand there and bleed?

YES FINALLY ! Thank You . Mr. Russel deserves far more recognition for his contributions to this endeavor, including cutting some of his own scenes to get the length of the movie to a manageable length .

@@fredmichaels418anyone who’s a fan of this movie knows very well that this was put together with Kurt steering the ship and Comsatos was director in name only. He and Val were setting shots the night before and sending out the call sheets, running lines then shooting. I’m so sad that Powers is gone (and even the campy over-actor in Paxton) and we will be bidding adieu to many of these fine actors parting this earth soon, and it will be a very sad time. But what’s wonderful is, many of them gave the performance of their lives in this film. Many have said Kilmer was robbed from an Oscar, but dang if anyone was, it really was Fiennes that year, but I will say Val should have been nominated. But I think what ‘robbed’ him was his reputation- he was impossible to work with, had a sense of entitlement about him. The Ghost and the Darkness is a good example of the kind of person he was then, and since his disability I think he’s become a better person. I think Val robbed Val of a nomination.

@CorsetGrace- wow thanks for sharing that piece of news of Kurt Russell actually directing the movie ❣ he did an amazing job! 👍🙏🌟

"Tombstone," and "Shawshank." You hit a nerve there! Two of my favorite movies of all-time. Eminently re-watchable! Thank you!

Likewise…if I’m flipping through the channels and either one of these show up, I’m watching it.

Walt Disney Pictures proudly presents:Tombstone(1993)

The real Wyatt Earp was known to be something of a cold fish personality-wise. As a result Costner likely portrayed a more accurate Earp. But Kurt Russel played a better on-screen Earp.

Even my eldest daughter loves Val Kilmer's role. She used his lines in school so she wouldn't get into trouble for swearing.

Wish I had a dollar for everytime I read this statement.

They all seem to have done a lot of research for these roles, too. It's pretty remarkable.

Literally every role is cast and played better than in Kevin Costner's version.

@@leighburne4098 ?🥺

@@leighburne4098 I loved Kevin Costner in The Hatfields & Mccoys

@@nelle9118 Both him and Bill Paxton gave fantastic performances. Kevin Costner was also good in Dances with Wolves but I think a lot of people will agree Toombstone was better than the Wyatt Earp movie he starred in.

It's even gone to the next generation and they love it just as much.

One thing that never gets mentioned about Val Kilmer is the good things he does. A special education class took a field trip to the set. He was the first one to interact with them. Kurt Russell after him then rest started after that. None of that was reported to the media.

He is such a great actor. He's that rare combination of movie star and character actor. Few actors are able to be both.

It was an incredible performance...such charisma and emotion...It's ashame he wasn't nominated for an oscar...cause he should have been.

Agreed

"Forgive me if I don't shake hands".

boaire - I agree, especially add his performance of Jim Morrison within I think 2 or 3 years. Both where epic performances.

He even looked like the real Doc Holiday if you look at pictures of the real Doc Holiday.

Everyone casted in that movie said val was robbed of his is Oscar

This and The Unforgiven

It's both!

it is more then the best western or the best movie ever made it is the most talked about historic event in U.S. History.

🙌🙌🙌

Goodfellas

Up there with THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES

Gil Davis agreed

I absolutely agree...100%. That was one of the best performances, I've ever seen.

agreed

He clearly got robbed. An amazing performance.

John Malkovich in In the Line of Fire was also great. Schindler's list also had some good roles. I can't remember who won that year.

Kevin Costner tried playing Wyatt Earp but wasn’t good at all Kurt Russell nailed it I mean he even looked like the real Wyatt Earp Kevin Costner is a great actor but he just didn’t fit the role as Wyatt Earp.

@@corygriffiths4394 I think Kevin Costner's Wyatt Earp is a great movie, it just isn't Tombstone!

I read somewhere that the director of Tombstone wept when he found out another Wyatt Earp movie was coming out on the heels of his. But look which one has become a classic.

Did you know Kurt Russell's dad starred on Bonanza as Sheriff Clem? His name was Bing Russell.

@@Pashasmom1 cool! There is a lot of film history with Kurt Russel. Mark in Milwaukee

I understand that Kurt Russell sacrificed considerable personal opportunity in this movie in order to do a lot of the directing. Kilmer has said so and gives Russell full credit. Really good guys. My favorite western movie of all time.

He wasn't wrong

Val credits him with letting him shine giving him the best lines etc. Kurt practically took over directing that movie himself he deserves lots of credit for how great it is.

Yes and with the cut scenes put back in

You can rent out a movie theater. It's not that expensive.

I agree with you plus they need to add some of the deleted scenes to make the story more complete.

@@GeorgiaRidgerunnerby by

Came back to Tombstone after watching Yellowstone 1883 series, like me?

I have a cd of this movie, I love it and watch it a lot!!!

100%

Nice Picture 👍🤠

Sam Elliott who played Virgil Earp was also in Gettysburg as General Buford and Buck Taylor who played Creek Johnson played as Colonel Gamble, one of Buford’s cavalry commanders

@@tinaphillips7239 All true! Is it just me, or do we seem to be missing that calibre of actor these days? Maybe I'm just getting up there...

I second that

I have a similar mustache but I also have a beard and this movie makes me want to shave my beard off. :)

THE DAYS OF THE BEARD ARE COMING TO AN END MY FRIEND, THE DAY OF THE MOUSTACHE WILL SOON BE UPON US. STEP THROUGH THE DOORWAY AND BE ONE OF THE FIRST.(Before Beckham)

bigearedmouse17 Show me your 'stache.

its one of the few things only a man can do , but have seen a few women with moustaches .LOL

Yeah, in New Bedford Mass. and Bristol,R.I....

no

would you believe I have yet to actually see it yet

Movies like the dazed and confused of the westerns. Every character, so well fleshed out

I am you're huckleberry

best line

@@Xavier10165 you're?

@@Xavier10165 HUCKLE BEARER

That one got me.

Or was it Huckle bearer..do you know the story? A Huckle is the name for a handle on a coffin..to me it makes more sense for the line to be Huckle bearer, as in I'll carry your coffin..I mean what is the meaning of Huckleberry?

@@paulcarter2907agreed

Yup...and he probably would've won too

That is something that I have believed since I first saw that movie...he gave an incredible performance. He pretty much made that entire movie.. His portrayal of jim morrison was actually scary, he was so accurate in it.. from his mannerisms, to his voice. And his look. it was shocking how much he looked like jim in that movie.

+Art Vandelay He got robbed. The best Holliday, ever.

Art Vandelay I agree. But I must tip my hat to Kirk Douglas, Stacy Keach, and Dennis Quaid.

Agree.

Yes but he hasn't gone to tombstone for the annual Doc Holidays in August! Val and Dennis and Michael biehn have! Maybe he thinks he's too good.

What a name he has

That was my favorite 2 lines of the movie.

@@annetta7793 Yeah I heard you the first time Ike!

👍

“I Don’t take no mouth from no bartenders, neither!”

"You're so drunk, you can't hit nothing. I bet you're seeing double" "I've got two guns, one for the each of ya"

The entire Holiday Vs. Ringo scene is the most badass gunfight on film.

Seeing him in his present condition hurt my heart to the core. Like, why him! I had no clue; it threw me off guard! But he still represents strength & courage, considering... he's smiling, laughing, and making jokes. He tells great stories as well! I hope to meet him someday :)

Powers boothe has also passed. He died in 2017 from pancreatic cancer.

@@cookncrook6902 They're all dying off. Soon will be our turn to go and join them.

@@robertwilliamson6121 As is life my friend

Your flesh returns to dirt, but your soul lives on..until we're judged.

Your kiddin' me; that was Billy Bob?!!!!!!

LOL...BILLY BOB AINT NO ACTOR...HOW HE GOT IN THERE ILL NEVER KNOW....

@@cynthiacarter665 no, it was actually his brother, Hugh Bob Thornton

I Wondered why Billy was so heavy if it wasn't for his voice I wouldn't have known it was him

How about a hot Merel Dixon? I didn't know he had he had it in him!! I actually believed his sensitivity!

Amen.

This is a recording

I hope Val lives longer it's a shame his health has been poor also RIP bill Paxton

And RIP Bill Paxton. I miss you.

Absolutely!

Absolutely about Powers Booth...Absolutely about Michael Biehn...Absolutely about Bill Paxton...

POWERS BOOTH IS GREAT IN DEADWOOD!

Great movie

I loved him in The Magnificent 7, this time he was the good guy, dressed in black, rather than Johnny Ringo. Movie 1998, the 1960's one was with yul B. I especially loved the 1998 one.

With these looks alone he could have joined hardrock band Thin Lizzy

Agreed 100% brother. I love Westerns. My video collection has Westerns from the 1920's up until the present and I believe Sam Elliott has got to be one of the best movie cowboys ever.

I always did wish he got more credit for the very understated performances he gave. It was so easy to believe he was a cowboy from his looks, to his voice, to the way he moved, it was basically perfect. I like too how he (playing as Virgil) gives that speech about justice and making money off suffering of the people (whether it was genuine or not) was brilliant because of how little that character did and said up to then. Amazing actor and pretty great acting all around. I really can't say I'm a Bill Paxton fan because he just comes off as too goofy, though this role worked in his favor as a sort of a naive and simple guy. Anyway, I'm rambling. Great movie.

Sam Eliot is perhaps one of the most under-rated actors in Hollywood (along with Bruce Dern).

Sam Elliott brings an "authenticity" to an already great project.

I was just thinking of sam Elliot performance in my favorite swayze film,ROAD HOUSE! Elliot gave such a scene stealing presence,when he arrives to Missouri,you know that the best in the business has arrived. The chemistry between Elliot and swayze was like mentor and student with love,I simply adored there character interaction!!

Agreed. I think Unforgiven making a clean sweep the year before really limited the nominations for Tombstone. There had been so many versions of the same subject matter that it didn't get it's recognition until many years later.

This was cast perfectly !!!

Yeah it's been written that Doc Holliday cried after he killed the man at the okay Corral

@Jimmy Crackcorn I just realized tonight that that was Powers Boothe and just never realized it so the movie a bunch of times never ever realized it

The Postman yes... unfortunately he passed :( so sad

@Jimmy Crackcorn wow now that's an actor

唐智余 Robert Mitchum was supposed to portray Old Man Clanton, but was injured after being thrown from his horse. He did narrate the beginning and end though. Think if Mitchum had been in the cast?

唐智余 "How the West Was Won"

Yes older westerns had so many more.

Stephen Lang as Ike “Lawdog, we’ll tear u apart.” “U die first get it, your friends might get me in a rush but not before I make your head into a canoe.” “No he’s not bluffing...” “You ain’t as stupid as u look Ike.”

No, they look like they are really from the wild west!

Lucky. I wish I was alive during that time lol

I went to see it four times in the theater.

@@yamahaxs6501 You are so lucky bro

@@lemonyx7109 I keep hoping for a theater to replay it sometime. where I used to live we had a theater that played old movies a lot. it was so cool to see stuff on the big screen.

@@yamahaxs6501 Yeah I hope we get a replay. God Val did so well and it would be awesome to experience it in the theater

And Powers Booth!

I didn't know that, may he rest well. He was nice to listen to in this. Thanks.

RIP Bill Paxton (Morg Earp) died a few months before Boothe

I use to drive by his house in Hidden Hills Calabasas, as a limo driver. I knew that, because several houses had a name sign by their post box, and his house was was almost the first house you come across, when entering through the main entrance. Never did see him though.

@@nitro_001newman2 Do you still drive limousines? What type of work are you doing now?

Mr. Wolff I’m driving for ride share companies like Uber & Lyft.

Fam. Leon he doesn't break character until after the commentary

I thought they all were?

Not in character... in costume, with his normal voice.

He was using a very Southern accent for almost the entirety of the interview.

@@JP5466 he doesn't exactly speak that way he used the accent he used in the movie when Val does a role he goes in with both feet LOL

is it wrong that Val's interview made me giggle so sexy LOL i love another but i cannot help but fancy this man in this role

they're all in character...i guess once they go there, it's not easy to break free of it while filming

I’ve seen it about a thousand times since I was a kid and it never gets old. Love it!

Noone stole the show. Every actor was in the zone, mainly because Kurt is a freakin genius movie maker.

@CemtecUk I thought Kurt was the best... Barley even noticed Val.

nick hughes - he was great!…

I'm 35, gone back and watch some old ones. I agree.