MY DARLING CLEMENTINE (John Ford, 1946)

“My Darling Clementine” is John Ford’s retelling of the Earp/Clanton fued, and the famous show down at the OK Corral. Ford embellishes on the story by centering the plot on the fictional character Clementine (Doc Holliday’s schoolteacher flame from back east).The gunfight at the OK Corral is as close as you can get to an epic legend when studying the frontier and American west.Join co-hosts Elysabeth Gwendolyn Belle and Robert Meyer Burnett as they take aim at this classic John Ford western starring Henry Fonda, Linda Darnell and Victor Mature. It’s the first of six, classic westerns they’ll be reviewing in January.(Episode #114. Originally aired January 20, 2021)