My Darling Clementine (Criterion Collection)

She was everything the West was - young, fiery, exciting!
33K ratings
Price: $27
List Price: $29.95
You Save: $2.95 (10% Off)
Available: Usually ships in 3-5 business days
Format:  DVD  (2 Discs)
item number:  3AGG4
Brand New

DVD Details

  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 37 minutes
  • Video: Black & White
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: August 5, 2014
  • Originally Released: 1946
  • Label: Criterion Collection

Performers, Cast and Crew:

Starring , , , , &
Performer: , , , , , , , , &
Directed by
Edited by
Screenplay by &
Original story by
Composition by
Art Direction by &
Story by
Produced by
Director of Photography:

Entertainment Reviews:

Fresh100%

TOMATOMETER
Total Count: 31

Upright85%

AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 7,491
Here’s what MY DARLING CLEMENTINE gets right about being a magnificent Western: almost everything. -- Grade: A
A.V. Club
Oct 15, 2014
...John Ford's greatest western....MY DARLING CLEMENTINE must be one of the sweetest and most good-hearted of all Westerns...
Chicago Sun-Times
Oct 26, 1997
Rating: 5/5 -- Simple in its storytelling while transcendent as a poem of rhythms, bonds and values. Full Review
The Skinny
Sep 1, 2015
Rating: 3/5 -- Slow-paced tale of Old West shootout has violence. Full Review
Common Sense Media
Mar 14, 2017
Rating: 4/4 -- The film subtly complicates viewer expectations early on, eschewing clear-cut character rivalries in favor of more complex emotional and social configurations. Full Review
Slant Magazine
Jan 21, 2014
Rating: 5/5 -- John Ford's last film as a contract director for Fox is a perfect western.
ColeSmithey.com
Nov 30, 2007
Rating: 3.5/4 -- generally considered the Wyatt Earp film against which all others are judged Full Review
Q Network Film Desk
Oct 30, 2014

Product Description:

In another of his classic Westerns, John Ford again reflects upon the advance of civilization on the receding frontier, recounting the events leading up to and including the legendary gunfight at the O.K. Corral. As they drive their cattle toward California, Wyatt Earp (Henry Fonda) and his brothers, Morgan (Ward Bond), Virgil (Tim Holt), and young James (Don Garner), stop outside Tombstone, Arizona, where they refuse an offer for their stock made by Old Man Clanton (Walter Brennan) and his son, Ike (Grant Withers). The three older brothers ride into town, and, after Wyatt subdues a drunk, return to the wagons to find James dead and their cattle stolen. With little doubt about who the perpetrators are, Wyatt decides to accept the offer to be marshal of Tombstone that he had just recently refused. Despite Wyatt's tense first encounter with melancholy gambler and gunslinger Doc Holliday (Victor Mature), a wary, tacit friendship grows between the two men, which is soon complicated by the arrival of Doc's former love, the demure Clementine Carter (Cathy Downs). Although ostensibly focused on the famed gunfight, MY DARLING CLEMENTINE's more concerned--like many of Ford's films--with the creation of a community, the rule of law, and the civilizing influence of women on the wild and woolly West. When the showdown finally comes, it's without blood lust, as the Earp brothers conduct themselves with the ritual solemnity of samurai warriors. Given Samuel Engel's terse, elliptical screenplay, Fonda gives a subtle, brilliantly understated performance in the lead role, establishing a naturalist motif that is picked up and furthered by Joseph MacDonald's magnificent, barely lit shots of Ford's beloved Monument Valley.

Keywords:

Similar Products

Genres:

Product Info

  • Sales Rank: 35,853
  • UPC: 715515128612
  • Shipping Weight: 0.26/lbs (approx)
  • International Shipping: 2 items

To place an order or for customer service, call toll-free 1-800-336-4627 or outside the United States, call 1-610-649-7565
Open Monday-Friday: 9am-5pm, (Eastern Time)