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Show uGun Fight At The O.K. Corral," Blazing, Big Scale Action Saga It' v I v pt & XI yi M Hi J ltV54 4 i Kirk Douglas as the driven gun-slinging ex-dentist, Doc Holliday, and Burt Lancaster as the fabled U.S. Marshal Wyatt Earp join forces to clean up Tomstone in Hal AVallis "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral," currently curr-ently at the South East Theater. Rhonda Fleming, John Ireland, Jo Van Fleet co-star in the Technicolor drama,x one of the major Westerns of all time. In the bullet-scared history of the West, no chapter has more raw drama than the bringing of law and order to Dodge City and Tomestne. Unmatched is the le-gnd le-gnd of how the quiet but deadly Wyatt Earp put a period to the Ike Clanton, Johnny Ringo gang. Earp had a strange sort of partner part-ner in the Tomestone episode, a man as colorful in his own way as the fabled marshall. That man was Doc Holliday, an unscrutable ex-dentist who had traded his shingle for a poker deck and his forceps for an incredibly accurate six-gun. Although scornful of the law, Holliday's admiration for Earp was so intense he backed him up to help write one of the most fascinating, explosive and unusual episodes in Western lore. Around this oddly-matched pair and the violent events that brought them to the historic pitched battle with Clanton, producer pro-ducer Hal Wallis has woven the film that is currently showing at the South East Theater. "Gunfight at the O. K. Corral," a huge scale drama that looms as the likely cuccessor to ' Shane." The screen's top action stars, Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas, portray Earp and Holliday, re spectively, in the most powerful roles in their brilliant careers. Co-starring Co-starring are curvatious Rhonda Fleming as the lady gambler Earp loved; Oscar-winner Jo Van Fleet as the strange woman in Holliday.s life; and Jolin Ireland as the venemous Johny Ringo. In support sup-port are Lyle Bettger as Clanton, Frank Faylen and fast-rising Earl Holliman. In VistaVision and Technicolor, filmed in Arizona in a massive location lo-cation operation, the Paramount picture chronicles the management alliance between Earp and Holliday, Holli-day, from its saloon brawl beginnings begin-nings to the famous encounter in which, along with Earp's marshall brothers, they faced Clanton's massod guns. Oscar-nominee John Sturges directed from a Leon Uris screenplay. The title song, sung by Frankie Laine, looms as the year's smash rit. |