Doc (film)

Bold textDoc is a 1971 American outlaw Western starring Stacy Keach, Faye Dunaway and Harris Yulin.  It was directed by Frank Perry and written from a  work by Pete Hamill. 

Plot

Doc Holliday(Stacy Keach) and Katie Elder(Faye Dunaway) spend time at the Continental Hotel to find Wyatt Earp(Harris Yulin), who is now deputy marshall and is striving to become sheriff of Tombstone. Katie starts out the narrative all dirty and smoking opium. She ends it traveling the desert on horseback with Doc. When they get to Tombstone, lots of carousing and consumption of opium(also opium smoking at bar where Doc won then barfly Katie in a cardgame of wits of sorts:his horse for the man's girl) at the Continental Hotel,not knowing if she and Doc will go to California. Doc shoots Morgan Earp(Philip Shafer) in a gunfight and kills him. Wyatt then says there will be a few changes in store for Tombstone!

Cast

• Stacy Keach as 'Doc' Holliday
• Faye Dunaway as Katie Elder
• Harris Yulin as Wyatt Earp
• Michael Witney as Ike Clanton
• Denver John Collins as The Kid
• Dan Greenburg as Clum,Editor Tombstone Epitaph
• John Scanlon as Bartlett,Saloon Owner
• Richard Mckenzie as Tombstone Sheriff John Behan
• John Bottoms as Virgil Earp
• Ferdinand Zogbaum as James Earp
• Penelope Allen as Mattie Earp
• Hedy Sontag as Alley Earp
• James Greene as Frank McLowery
• Antonia Rey as Concha,Whore
• Philip Shafer as Morgan Earp

Analysis

There is a lot of drinking(congestion and carousing). in the film, which is expected of a western of the early 70s. There are also scenes of the use of the word 'Bitch' many times and of the phrase, "go down for it and I'll blast an extra 'asshole' between your eyes. Talking of marriage and the preacher, Katie Elder says, "When I'm on my knees, it's not in prayer"! Opium is a favourite in the movie, along with derringers, which were both popular then.

External Links

Doc (1971 film) at the Internet Movie Database Template:Western film stubs