Hollywood's obsession with the battle between the Earps and the Clantons at Tombstone's OK Corral in 1881 continued with this stop-start action film.

It pitched in most of the cinema's best bad guys against Burt Lancaster, earnest but excellent as Wyatt Earp, and Kirk Douglas, more flamboyant but just as good as Doc Holliday.

The lion's share of the acting meat deservedly goes to the Oscar-winning Jo Van Fleet.

Usually cast as characters much older than herself, Van Fleet was allowed a rare touch of glamour as Holliday's mistress Kate Fisher.

There is, in addition, Frankie Laine's catchy theme song, and the equally famous roaring climax.

If you're a Western fan, you can't go far wrong with this, even though things get a mite stodgy at times.

Star Trek's Doc McCoy, DeForest Kelley, is one of Lancaster's gunslinging brothers.