The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (TV Series) The Outlaws Cry Murder (1961) User Reviews

Great TV Series

[bcrd500 · 10/10 · 2 October 2019]

Considering this show was made in an era where Hollywood never allowed fact to get in the way of a good story, this series got the history correct about 70% of the time. However, One major mistake was portraying Earp as the marshal of the Kansas cow towns when he was a deputy in each town. Another mistake is making him the marshal of Tombstone almost from first day he stepped into the town. He served as Behan's deputy sheriff for a brief time in 1880 and was used as a temporary deputy by his brother, Virgil, who was the marshal of Tombstone. The last major mistake of the writers was Earp being locked in a duel with Old Man Clanton over crime in and around Tombstone. Earp never met Old Man Clanton and what little dealings he had with the Clanton's was with Ike. Despite those errors, it is an enjoyable show to watch.

Polarity

[darbski · 6/10 · 28 August 2018]

***SPOILERS*** Well, they just had an episode that wasn't horribly far off the mark, and they follow it up with this mess. It's NOT that it's ALL fiction -- wait a minute -- yeah, it is. See, that's what makes it so bad. Because they had quite a lot of the details in the ballpark in the "Gunfight" episode, how can they go so wrong in this one? Like I said in the previous review, it was not perfect, but pretty close. Get five opinions on a car wreck, and they can all be substantially different. The acting was good, and I liked the part where Wyatt beat the dickens out of Ringo and Brocious. Besides that, forget it. Now, it was a good western story, and the Earp brothers are the heroes of the series. Fiction is and was the order of the day. It MUST sell, or it will not stay on the air. They STILL could have stuck to the facts, and had a great story. I'll go out on a limb (hopefully without a saw) and give it a 6.