Thursday 9 April 2009

Friday Night (Cow)Boy Cool #4

Henry Fonda, as Wyatt Earp, balancing the town's (and his) concerns in John Ford's My Darling Clementine (1946).

A drunken travelling player, Granvwille Thorndyke (Alan Mowbray), taunted by the local hoodlums, forgets the lines from Hamlet's "To be or not to be" soliloquy in front of the consumptive Doc Holliday (Victor Mature),who helps him until stricken by a coughing fit, prophetically, on the words, "Thus conscience does make cowards of us all", and Earp has to escort him to the town's theatre.

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