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My Darling Clementine Overview:

My Darling Clementine (1946) was a Drama - Western Film directed by John Ford and produced by Samuel G. Engel.

The film was based on the biography Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal written by Stuart N. Lake 1931.

SYNOPSIS

Fonda plays Wyatt Earp in Ford's celebrated telling of the gunfight at the OK Corral. Mature is a solid Doc Holliday, the cultured Bostonian turned gunfighter. Ford includes long, nostalgic passages that with loving detail evoke daily life in the West, as much the theme of the film as Fonda's quest for his brother's killers and the inevitable showdown at the conclusion. One of Ford's best.

(Source: available at Amazon AMC Classic Movie Companion).

My Darling Clementine was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1991.

My Darling Clementine BlogHub Articles:

John Ford’s “My Darling Clementine” and myth of the American West

By Stephen Reginald on Jul 17, 2020 From Classic Movie Man

John Ford’s “My Darling Clementine” and myth of the American West My Darling Clementine (1946) is an American western film directed by John Ford, starring Henry Fonda, Linda Darnell, and Victor Mature. Many critics consider it one of the best westerns ever made. The movie tak... Read full article

Review: My Darling Clementine (1946)

By 4 Star Film Fan on Mar 15, 2019 From 4 Star Films

The first time I ever saw My Darling Clementine I couldn’t get over how unimpressive it seemed. If nothing else it certainly didn’t give off any self-aware sense of its own importance. There was nothing that struck me as outright epic and monumental. And yet this western has been a heral... Read full article

My Darling Clementine (1946)

By Beatrice on Jan 12, 2015 From Flickers in Time

My Darling Clementine Directed by John Ford Written by Samuel G. Engel and Winston Miller from a story by Sam Hellman based on a book by Stuart N. Lake 1945/USA Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation Repeat viewing/Netflix rental #204 of 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die If you are not look... Read full article

Criterion: My Darling Clementine

By Aaron West on Oct 19, 2014 From Criterion Blues

Oct 19 Posted by aaronwest MY DARLING CLEMENTINE, JOHN FORD, 1946 The best genre films are those that touch on deeper themes, and John Ford was an expert at using the Western as a way of examining his present. My Darling Clementine is considered by many to be among the best of his films, and I’ve... Read full article

Criterion: My Darling Clementine

By Aaron West on Oct 19, 2014 From Criterion Blues

Oct 19 Posted by aaronwest MY DARLING CLEMENTINE, JOHN FORD, 1946 The best genre films are those that touch on deeper themes, and John Ford was an expert at using the Western as a way of examining his present. My Darling Clementine is considered by many to be among the best of his films, and I’ve... Read full article

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My Darling Clementine Quotes:

Wyatt Earp: Sure is rough-looking country. Ain't no cow country. Mighty different where I come from. What do they call this place?
Old Man Clanton: Just over the rise there. Big town... called Tombstone.
Clementine Carter: I should think that if nothing else, you'd at least be flattered to have a girl chase you.
Wyatt Earp: Ma'am, I sure like that name... Clementine.
Old Man Clanton: When ya pull a gun, kill a man.
Old Man Clanton: Wide-awake, wide-open town, Tombstone. You can get anything you want there.
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My Darling Clementine Facts
Tombstone, Arizona, is not located in Monument Valley. John Ford "placed" it there because Monument Valley is where he liked to film his Westerns.
Actress Jeanne Crain was scheduled to play Clementine. Studio head Darryl F. Zanuck ruled against her, writing in a memo that the part was so small, Crain fans might be disappointed by not seeing her in more scenes. That's how contract player Cathy Downs got the part instead.
According to Henry Fonda in 1976 Darryl F. Zanuck's first choice for Doc Holliday was James Stewart but he was overruled by John Ford who didn't believe Stewart could do the part.
Vincent Price was considered for the role of Doc Holliday.
Director John Ford, who in his youth had known the real Wyatt Earp, claimed the way the OK Corral gunfight was staged in this film was the way it was explained to him by Earp himself, with a few exceptions.
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