This creates a small hazard the next time the conversation comes round to the topic of Who Was The Best Wyatt Earp Ever Seen On Screen (an occurrence about as frequent as a Cleveland Indians pennant). If you want to answer, as you properly should, that that would be James Garner, you will hereafter have to be careful to add that you don't mean the movie in which Wyatt Earp, in his golden years, gets hired as Technical Adviser to cowboy star Tom Mix (Bruce Willis, the man who spends more time than any other actor suppressing giggles or else rinsing his teeth), and the two of them stumble into an adventure more suited to the talents of Philip Marlowe (whom Garner played well in Marlowe), set in an era when Earp would have been a doddering old-timer well past Garner's years, and where neither his fish-out-of-water nor his dinosaur-past-his-prime handicap has any bearing on the outcome. In other words, you'll have to be clear you don't mean Blake Edwards's Sunset, although Garner certainly does all right, and there is much to ponder in the gratuitous fact that Edwards, while eschewing slapstick for a change, has gone so far as to portray a Chaplin-esque demigod ("The Happy Hobo") as the sadistic villain of the piece. No, you'll have to be clear that you mean John Sturges's Hour of the Gun (1967). With Kathleen Quinlan, Mariel Hemingway, and Malcolm McDowell. (1988) — Duncan Shepherd
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