Perhaps part of the Problem w/ Wyatt Earp is that it is an Epic. Should there be such scope to Wyatt Earp, the man. Costner read S. Lake when he should of read Odie Faulk's TOMBSTONE: Myth & Reality 1972. I think the events in Tombstone, the time & place, not the film is what makes Wyatt, Doc & company interesting. Like many films in the western genre Cosmatis got in told a story w/ the help of some charming acting & got out. Here the scale of the film matched the scale of the man. > Let us not Forget Ford's MY DARLING CLEMENTINE. The touchstone for all Earp Films. Stephen Stephen O'Riordan Film/Video Archives Media Center, UCSD 9500 Gilman Dr. La Jolla, CA 92093-0504 Tel: 619/534-7981 Fax: 619/534-7180 [log in to unmask]