A big, sprawling, brawling Western with the two most manly actors of the 50s united in gunplay as the morally inflexible Wyatt Earp and the trigger-happy consumptive Doc Holliday take on untamed women like Fleming and Jo Van Fleet, plus baddies like John Ireland, Lee Van Cleef and a young Dennis Hopper.
Sturges fills the big screen with images of big men striding down big streets and Frankie Laine provides a ballad title song to bridge the scenes. It's not as poetic as My Darling Clementine or as historically accurate as Sturges' sequel-remake, Hour Of The Gun, but it is a wonderful evocation of the brassy Westerns of the 50s, when Burt and Kirk demonstrated more machismo than a whole posse of Arnies or Slys.