The life and legend
Of wyatt earp
( Men vocalizing )
♪ Wyatt earp, wyatt earp
♪ Brave, courageous and bold
♪ Long live his fame
♪ And long live his glory
♪ And long may
His story be told. ♪
Narrator: the friendship
Between marshal wyatt earp
And dr. John h. Holliday
Was one of the mysteries
Of dodge city.
Why marshal earp,
A deacon in the church,
Could tolerate doc holliday
Was mighty puzzling
To wyatt's friends.
Doc holliday--
Gambler, gunfighter, k*ller--
Had a mean disposition
And a caustic tongue.
That two men,
So different in character,
Could even associate
On friendly terms
Would seem preposterous.
And wyatt's insistence on
Making a friend of doc holliday
Finally came to a crisis
Between wyatt
And the men who hired him
To civilize dodge city.
Cards, gentlemen.
Give me three.
Doc, we'd better
Call it no deal.
We got to shove along,
Get us some fellows
That crossed us.
All right, snakey.
You know
Your own business.
Well, what else can you do
With fellas that'd turn you
Into the texas rangers?
Spare me the tale of woe.
Just k*ll 'em
And get it over with.
Now that's what I wanted
To hear you say, doc.
Fellers,
When it's all over,
Remember doc holliday
Was the judge and jury.
He said k*ll 'em.
We're just carrying out
The judgment of the court.
Snakey,
You amuse me.
Whenever I
Gamble with you,
I always collect
A rare bit of humor.
Well, thank you doc.
Irony appeals to me.
Appointing me
Judge and jury,
That shows real
Imagination.
You do have style,
Snakey.
Now, in acknowledgment
Of my praise,
I'll trust you give me
A good start back to dodge.
Why sure.
Minutes be enough?
Ample, my friend.
Ample.
( g*nshots )
That's mighty
Nice work.
We'll hole up
In devil's garden.
Ain't that too close
To earp and dodge?
Devil's garden--
I like the name.
Come on, boys,
Let's get the horses.
And I don't care
How many favors
He's done ya,
Holliday'll be the ruin
Of your career
As a peace officer.
The man is cold,
Ruthless, cruel.
The whole town thinks
We should have tried him
For that
Maxwell killin'.
Look,
Doc broke the case,
He pulled me
Off a tough spot.
Well, I don't care.
Now something's
Got to be done.
The judge and I
Have come here to try--
Now, wyatt, will you
Listen to me?!
Wyatt! Wyatt.
Five dead men
On the trail
Less than a mile
From the city limits.
Well, any idea
Who did it?
The cowhand told me
They used to ride
With snakey gratton.
- Snakey gratton?
- Right.
Then let's get out there.
Now, wyatt,
What about doc?
Not now, mr. Mayor.
Oh, wyatt, thank heaven.
- What's the matter, miss kate?
- It's about the doctor.
He went out
To play cards
With snakey gratton.
- Oh?
- He promised to be back
An hour ago.
I'm afraid
He's had a relapse.
Now don't you worry
About the doc,
Miss kate,
We'll find him.
The doc can
Take care of himself.
Come on, hal.
Hold on, ms. Holliday.
Oh, mr. Kelly,
Judge tobin.
I was so upset i--
Mrs. Holliday,
Sit down a moment,
Please.
We have something
Important to discuss.
Oh... Well.
Of course.
Is it about
Doctor holliday?
Something wyatt didn't--
Mrs. Holliday...
Five members
Of the snakey gratton g*ng
Were just ambushed and k*lled.
Your husband
Was playing cards
With snakey gratton.
Why yes,
But you don't think...
John doesn't
Ambush people!
Well, while you
Were in kansas city,
He did some
Unnecessary k*lling.
To keep wyatt
From being framed.
He didn't help wyatt,
Mrs. Holliday.
He hurt him.
Oh, I see.
You want john to stop
Being friends with wyatt.
Well, at least he could
Stop being such pals
With a hoodlum
Like snakey gratton.
You don't understand that?
Why john likes mr. Gratton?
No, we don't.
How would you like being
Locked up in a texas jail
For sh**ting a gambler
In a square fight?
The gambler was crooked
But he had all
The influence on his side.
I had no one to turn to
Except mr. Gratton.
Well, howdy, miss kate.
John's in jail-- in bracos.
They aim to hang him for
sh**ting one-eyed gillum.
Well, I'll be.
Doc ought to get
A medal for that.
The rope is what
He'll get.
Unless you can
Do something,
Mr. Gratton.
Do something?
Why that bracos jail
Ain't nothing but
A board shack.
Hey, muggins!
This is
Mrs. Holliday,
- Doc's wife.
- Howdy.
She'd like for us
To get old doc
Out of that jail
In bracos.
We'll need
Some of the boys.
I'll round 'em up,
Boss.
They like breaking jails,
Miss kate.
You've done 'em
A real favor just
To mention it.
Now you lie down
And rest a while.
We'll have him
Right out for you.
Kate: mr. Gratton
Pretended it was nothing.
But he and his men risked
Getting in trouble
With the rangers.
Men: ♪ we'll hang wyatt earp
♪ To a sour apple tree...
Hey, you fellas!
Quit that singing so early
Or I'll have to run you in.
Oh!
- Both: all right.
- Get in there. Inside.
( g*nshots )
Here we are.
Bring him out.
Thank you, snakey.
Hyah!
John owed mr. Gratton,
You see?
I'm a circuit judge,
Mrs. Holliday.
I can't enthuse
Over mr. Gratton's
Outlaw generosity.
And right now
Doc's probably
Ridin' with gratton
To some
Hoodlum hideout.
My husband,
Joining with the outlaws?
Well...
Wyatt and hal,
Loaded with
Spit and ginger.
Where'd it
Happen, doc?
Back yonder
A few miles.
I heard sh**ting.
Look, I've been up all night,
I ran out of whiskey
And I'm feeling mean.
So, ride along,
Will you?
I'm sorry, doc,
But miss kate told me
You were with snakey gratton.
Kate tells you too much.
It's more trouble
For wyatt.
He's already in bad
With tobin and kelly.
Ease off, hal.
Did you just have
To be playin' cards
With snakey gratton?
Why not?
I like snakey.
But you took no part
In the k*lling, huh?
No, i--
( Coughing )
Give him
Some whiskey.
Is that an order?
Yes, it is.
Your chief deputy
Doesn't like me,
And it's quite mutual.
If he wasn't your chief deputy,
He'd be dead.
Temptation to sh**t him
Has often assailed me.
Hal has a job to do
And so have i.
I concede that.
Thank you, I feel better.
Now, I'm gonna
Ask you once more,
Were you at the sh**t'?
No, sir, I was not.
Did you know
That snakey gratton
Was gonna ambush those men?
Certainly.
That makes you
An accessory before
The crime.
Aren't you going
To arrest him?
You try, deputy.
All right,
Quit your jabbering.
Both of you.
Now, hal,
Ride back into town.
Get a handful
Of deputies.
We'll meet you
Out there.
Yes, sir.
Well, I'm trying hard
To stay your friend,
But you don't
Make the job easy.
Oh now, cool off, wyatt.
I'll let you arrest me.
What good is that gonna do?
I'm still a united states
Deputy marshal,
And I got to try and find
Snakey gratton.
Now do you know where
He's likely to be,
Or does your perverted sense
Of loyalty to outlaws
Require you to say nothin'?
You know, if you'd take
A drink occasionally,
You'd be a lot
Easier to deal with.
Come on.
'Tis contrary
To common sense,
Mrs. Holliday,
For a man to consort
With outlaws
And claim friendship
With a peace officer.
Doctor holliday
Compromises wyatt.
Law-abiding citizens
Can't understand
Such a friendship.
People don't
Understand my husband.
John saved wyatt's life
On at least two occasions.
And another time,
John had a run-in
With two of
Sheriff masterson's men.
They were new deputies
And they'd been drinking and...
Here he comes.
Halt.
Ain't you the famous
Doc holliday?
I'm doctor holliday, yes.
Fast g*n,
Mean with a knife--
Everybody's scared
Of you, huh?
You'd better go back in that
Saloon and drink it off.
We ain't scared
Of ya.
Just start
For your g*n.
I'm not wearing a g*n.
Go get one.
We'll wait
Right here.
And we'll
Be right here.
John, what is it?
Two of masterson's deputies
Got fresh with me.
They asked for a gunfight,
And they're gonna get one.
No. No, masterson and
Wyatt are close friends.
Bat should keep
His deputies sober.
We don't care about him.
It's wyatt.
You'll make
Trouble for wyatt.
Kate, they're drunk,
But they have no right
To insult me.
I don't take that.
John, wyatt's
The only real friend
We have in this town.
I'm not fighting
His deputies.
But you'll get
Wyatt in trouble.
You'll just be proving
What everybody says,
That he's foolish
To be friends with us.
They'll-- they'll
Laugh at him, john.
Yeah.
Well, why don't you
Finish your letter?
Yes, yes, john.
You don't know tough
That was for john--
To keep out of a fight--
But he swallowed his pride
For wyatt's sake.
But he rides
With snakey gratton,
And he helps
m*ssacre five men.
You know better than that,
Mr. Kelly.
John never shot anyone
From ambush.
He doesn't have to.
He's as good
With a g*n as wyatt.
If john's mixed up with gratton,
It's social,
Not business.
They never even
Had a chance.
Gratton got them
From those rocks
Not more than feet
Off the trail.
Well, they never gave
Snakey a chance.
They stole his robbery hole
And then informed on him
To the rangers.
And how much would snakey
And his boys
Have gotten for that
In texas?
Someday I must give you
A lecture on criminal ethics.
Criminal ethics?
Precisely, deacon.
You have your codes,
Snakey has his.
In snakey's code,
What those men did
Merited a death sentence.
And you agree with that, huh?
No, but I understand it.
Oh, and you think
It's quite all right?
You're trying to ask me
Where I think snakey
And his boys went.
Well, why don't you ask me?
Point blank.
All right, where?
I can't tell you.
Criminal ethics, huh?
No...
I don't want you
Riding into an ambush.
Katie'd leave me.
She should have left you,
A dozen times.
He tell you anything?
No, not yet.
I'm gonna give him
One last chance.
You go see if you
Can find any sign.
Well, they can't
Have gone too far.
We'll have to trail 'em.
They'll bushwhack you.
Well, I've been
Bushwhacked before.
Not by snakey.
He's a genius at it.
All right,
You warned me.
Good bye, doc.
Too bad.
I hate to think
Of an old crock
Like me outliving you.
You just save your tears
For the funeral.
Did they scatter?
No, they headed south
Toward bushwhacker country.
Good.
All right,
You deputies spread out
To flank hal and me.
You keep a wide interval,
But keep in touch.
Let's go.
Take the horses down there
About a quarter of a mile.
Picket 'em by a stream
If you can find one.
That far, snakey?
Yeah, earp's gonna
Be coming along here.
I don't want no horse
Whinny to warn him.
What about holliday?
Ain't him and earp
Good friends?
Doc holliday
Is a good friend
Of mine, too.
But he don't know
Where we're at.
Now get these
Horses moving.
( Murmurs )
Come on.
Wyatt's the only man
John knows,
For a friend,
Who goes to church
And prays.
John is ill.
He can't live
Many more years.
I think john holds
To his friendship with wyatt
Because he's just too
Stubborn and cantankerous
To ask the good lord
For pardon.
Wyatt's out there
Riding into an ambush.
What doc holliday
Does about it
Will be a sort of
A test case, won't it?
I don't know.
I can't honestly say
What john will do.
Well, what would you say
If he threw in
With the gratton g*ng?
Then he should leave dodge
And never see wyatt again.
We agree.
We'll stand on that,
Mrs. Holliday.
Why you stoppin' 'em?
I figure snakey gratton's
Holed up here someplace.
Probably
In devil's garden.
So?
Well, there's no need
To take six men
Into an ambush.
I figure we ought
To stay here,
Send back to dodge
For at least more
Good g*ns.
There are not that
Many in dodge.
I don't want a lot
Of family men
In a gunfight
With gratton.
We're riding on.
Maybe earp ain't comin'.
He's comin', all right.
We k*lled five men,
Not one mile from dodge.
He's a united states marshal.
You just stay down and hold
Your r*fle on that trail.
Call in the deputies.
Now, they
Branched off here.
Everything indicates
That snakey's holed up
In the devil's garden.
I know that
Neck of the woods.
If snakey's
As good a bushwhacker
As doc says he is,
He'll be laying for us
In that clump of brush
And rocks over there,
About a mile.
Now there's a trail
That winds around and back
In the rear of devil's garden
About five miles.
And we'll take that trail.
We're with you.
No, I'm going myself.
Hal, I want you to move
Within long r*fle range
And lob some b*ll*ts
Into that brush.
You take the deputies.
But won't that
Scare snakey off?
I don't think so.
You just keep him
Pinned down.
Take me about an hour
To get around
To the rear of them.
What then?
When you hear me call,
You come runnin'.
You heard the marshal.
Get moving.
( Whistles )
Come on.
( Distant chatter )
They're comin'.
( g*nshots )
Hold your fire till they
Get in here real close.
( g*nf*re continues )
( g*nshots )
( g*nf*re continues )
( Clears throat )
We can get 'em now.
I said hold your fire.
Snakey.
Don't nobody sh**t.
It's doc..
Keep your sights on earp
And them deputies.
Doc, what are
You doing here?
You got any liquor?
I ran out.
I closed the bar, doc.
It's fourth of july.
Well...
Thank you, snakey.
( g*nsh*t ricochets )
You better sit down.
Them's real b*ll*ts.
So they are.
Snakey,
They're close enough.
Yeah, all right.
Mow 'em down.
( Groaning )
Down, down!
Let 'em come and get us.
Wyatt better hurry.
All right, load up.
We'll charge 'em.
That earp
Is awful smart.
He's smarter than you.
Huh?
If you were
A smart man, snakey,
You'd head for texas
And turn yourself
Over to the rangers.
And get hanged.
They can't pin
That ambush on you.
The worst you'll get
Is two years.
Who's that talkin'?
You or earp?
Don't be an idiot.
You start k*lling
Peace officers,
And you will
Get the rope.
Have you gone
Over to earp?
I'm sorry you
Said that, snakey.
That statement
Calls for a draw.
Don't try it, doc!
He makes a move for his g*n,
Break his arm.
All right, the rest of you,
Let's rush 'em.
No!
Hold it, doc.
Drop it!
Now tell the rest
Of your men
To drop their g*ns.
Drop 'em!
Use your head, snakey.
All right,
We're whupped.
Drop 'em.
Let's go.
Help!
Come on!
Doc, you better put
A tourniquet on that arm.
All right, let's
Get down the hill.
Come on. Hal, stay here
And take care of these men.
What happened?
Oh, john.
Wyatt, won't you
Tell me what happened?
Well, I'm sorry, miss kate.
I told doc I wouldn't
Say anything about it.
John, please!
No.
Did john do
Something wrong?
Is he under arrest?
You've got to tell me
What he did.
Mayor kelly
And judge tobin
Don't think you
Should be friends
With john anymore.
( Murmurs )
Well, miss kate,
Doc and I
Are still friends.
We're still friends.
( Chuckles )
♪ Well, he cleaned up
The country ♪
♪ The old wild west country
♪ He made
Law and order prevail ♪
♪ And none can deny it
♪ The legend of wyatt
♪ Forever will live
On the trail ♪
♪ Wyatt earp, wyatt earp
♪ Brave, courageous and bold
♪ Long live his fame
♪ And long live his glory
♪ And long may
His story be told. ♪