Stacy Keach is Doc Holliday in the umpteenth retelling of the Gunfight at the OK Corral. Faye Dunaway is Big Nose Kate, the woman he runs into in a bordello and falls in love with. Harris Yukon is Wyatt Earp, various other people play various other people, and if there's a point to director Frank Perry's handling of Pete Hamill's script, it's that the Old West was a dirty place. Not figuratively, but literally so in need of a good cleaning that cinematographer Gerald Hirschfeld shoots all the interiors with a sepia tint. Even Miss Dunaway's white wedding dress looks ivory,
It's not presented as a story, but more as a series of events that happen to some ill-defined people. Of course, in many stories, it's the actions which tell us the characters, but Kerch seems to be just going along with things. I suppose that's a character, and it seems likely that a man who has been dying for years of tuberculosis might adopt the attitude. Still, it gives the impression that any random character at these events could have been the subject. One of the horses, perhaps.
It's not presented as a story, but more as a series of events that happen to some ill-defined people. Of course, in many stories, it's the actions which tell us the characters, but Kerch seems to be just going along with things. I suppose that's a character, and it seems likely that a man who has been dying for years of tuberculosis might adopt the attitude. Still, it gives the impression that any random character at these events could have been the subject. One of the horses, perhaps.