In Search of Doc Holliday

Tombstone is one of my favorite movies, so I was curious to watch this documentary. The info was interesting and I'm sure it was a lot of work to gather it all..... BUT, the quality is really bad. It reminds me of a high school production, with poor editing, awful segues and a narrator that is apparently bored out of his mind. All in all, it's worth an hour or so if you have a slow Saturday night and you're a Tombstone fan.

Although the script read by the narrator seems to be accurate and Holliday's story is certainly interesting, the visual material is done so poorly you'd be far better served by reading one of the many excellent books on Doc. The film repeatedly uses the same photographs and video clips throughout, and they often have no correlation to the subject being discussed. For example, several scenic views of saguaro-studded hills are shown when the narrator is covering Doc's days in Colorado, New Mexico, or Tombstone. However, there aren't saguaros in Colorado, New Mexico, or Tombstone. Knowing this, I couldn't trust that any of the landscape photos shown were actually of the places being discussed (unless I happened to be personally familiar with those places). The narrator routinely mispronounces proper names, such as Prescott, the town in Arizona, which he stresses as press-CAHT. The authors interviewed served the film well and provided useful information, but deserved a better production. When brief dramatizations were included, they added nothing, and the hats weren't even accurate for Doc's years (and, like the saguaro photos and the random babbling water videos, they were repeated again and again). The film misses the mark.

My goodness, talk about ignorance, this "documentary" is loaded with historical inaccuracies. It particularly glosses over slavery and reconstruction in a manner that is absolutely shameful. To quote the film, "...to oversee the redistribution of land as the former plantations were broken up, and the former slaves were made land owning Tennant farmers." This is an absolute impossibility, one cannot be both a landowner and a tenant farmer, it's literally a logical impossibility. Beyond that, redistribution of land never happened, except on small scale on the coast of Georgia and it was undone by federal mandate.

This is exactly what I was looking for free on YouTube with educated professor's real pictures shares gorilla style filmmaking and some great music that the filmmaker's work hard on This was made by lovers of history and of.com with it himself. It inspires me to do a documentary of my own thank you creators. The reenactment as good as I would have liked but The massage of the name main narrator was so authentic. Talk how they would rather have a movie like this than a big budget fiasco. Anyone else think it's weird that IMDB assess to have a minimum of what we want to say sometimes you say and you don't gotta say no more you just said it good movie by good people hope more people watch free on YouTube cause this is enough letters it's enough words come on IMDb.

An interesting attempt to tell the story of Doc Holliday, it falls short on production quality and accuracy.

While the story itself holds true to the documentaries I've read on him, Earp and Masterson the visuals that accompany the story line are sometimes not at all accurate to the area being discussed.

As a Westerner who has visited many of these places and now lives near Leadville and Glenwood Springs it irked me to see incorrect visuals presented with the story line. It led me to not trust the accuracy of the historic photos presented.

Overall though a solid documentary that is consistent with others about him, the Earps and Masterson.