Review of My Darling Clementine (1946) by Irvin C — 14 Nov 2013
My Darling Clementine (1946).
This movie has absolutely nothing to do with what actually happened at the OK Corral in Tombstone, but it is a very entertaining movie, all the same. The photography is very shadowy; like some kind of a film noir western. Linda Darnell is so beautiful as the latina, Chihuahua, that you look at Doc Holiday (Victor Mature) and wonder how he could possibly walk away from that for straight-laced Clementine (Cathy Downs); the girl from his past.
Walter Brennan was so evil as old man Clanton, that I never looked at Grandpa Amos McCoy the same again. Bill Clanton (John Ireland) was very smarmy fooling around with Chihuahua when Doc Holiday wasn't looking. And, Henry Fonda, was just Henry Fonda. He's played this same character many times and it just fits with what we would think is Wyatt Earp.
The rest of the town characters came right out of John Ford's casting list as well as the Monument Valley background, which Tombstone is a long long way from. Still this is an excellent movie and I highly recommend it.
This review of My Darling Clementine (1946) was written by Irvin C on 14 Nov 2013.
My Darling Clementine has generally received very positive reviews.
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