Wyatt Earp

Wyatt Earp1994

Director: Lawrence Kasdan
Stars: Kevin Costner, Dennis Quaid, Gene Hackman, David Andrews, Linden Ashby
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Runtime: 190 minutes

Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp (March 19, 1848 – January 13, 1929) was an American Old West lawman and gambler in Cochise County, Arizona Territory, and a deputy marshal in Tombstone. He worked in a wide variety of trades throughout his life and took part i… more »



Wyatt Earp:
Doc [Holliday] was a dentist whom necessity had made a gambler; a gentleman whom disease had made a frontier vagabond; a philosopher whom life had made a caustic wit; a long lean ash-blond fellow nearly dead with consumption, and at the same time the most skillful gambler and the nerviest, speediest, deadliest man with a gun that I ever knew.

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  • Red_in_Denver
    I love this quote. BUT I've read that Wyatt Earp was not an educated man, nor was he very articulate. So this quote may have been slightly modified by the reporter who published the quote.
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