FREE ON CINEGEEK.DE THE BEST MOVIES IN OUR VIDEO STORE PT.14 John Ford - My Darling Clementine 

I think Wyatt Earp is seriously shocked: "What Kind of town is this?"; he asks as he enters Tombstone. The answer is: "A town where you get your head shot off when you're shaving. Earp (Henry Fonda) and his brother are driving cattle east (ironically, in the opposite direction to the usual western). Earp, Virgil, and Morgan leave the herd to little brother to have a drink and a shave in Tombstone. From a distance, Tombstone looks almost romantic under the sinking evening sky - but then you hear the shots in the saloon and quickly realize that this town is one big graveyard. My Darling Clementine deals with the central moral question of every western: Wyatt Earp will be the new marshal in Tombstone. Then it comes the showdown between law and anarchy. In the end, right wins. We even see a little schoolgirl symbolizing the beginning of the new civilization. But in John Ford's western, the showdown is not the main event. He observes the little things of everyday life: haircuts, poker, romance and friendship. Earp represents a modern Westerner. One who stands up as soon as a woman enters the room. By the way, the herd they leave to their little brother is found dead, which is why Earp accepts the Marshall Stern. Main suspect: Old Man Clanton (Walter Brennan), who shows his teeth like a wild animal. But Earp won't shoot Clanton and his men. He wants to arrest them as marshals. A legal form of revenge. As such, Earp's natural enemy in Tombstone is Doc Holliday (Victor Mature), the local gambler. However, when Holliday dies of TB, a silent, unspoken relationship has developed between the men. Perhaps Earp senses how sad Holliday is deep inside? At one point, Holliday was a doctor. Then he hung his doctor case on the wall of his shabby little room. He started drinking. To his mistress, a whore, he promised to go to Mexico. But by that time he was coughing up blood. When Holiday Earp first meets Earp in the saloon, he challenges him to a duel. Not knowing that the guns of Earp's companions are already pointed at him. There is no duel, instead they drink together. Twice Holliday orders men out of town and each time Earp reminds him that this is the marshal's business. The greatest scene with Holliday is the one where he recites from Hamlet. Does he talk about himself when he articulates his longing for an undiscovered country? And then the beautiful scenes between Earp and Clementine (Cathy Downs), who comes from the East and is looking for a certain "Doc Holliday". Isn't it romantic how Earp shyly and awkwardly asks Clemetine to come to church with him? Aaaaach yes... When they both dance down by the river, it marks the turning point. The Old West is dead. Civilization has arrived. My father has a big book about John Ford, written by Joe Hembus. I think I've known it by heart since I was a kid. I know exactly how John Ford made his westerns. Out in the field, preferably in his beloved Monument Valley. Together with his crew he also slept outside, just as if the film production was a settler's train. Ford made dozens of silent movies until he ushered in the classic period of the American western in the late 1930s. Ford even met the real Wyatt Earp! Normally John-Wayne played the leading role in Ford's Western, but in My Darling Clementine he played Henry Fonda. Fonda was probably better able to embody the new West, while John-Wayne was better able to embody the old West in his person. For all those who don't like Westerns: My Darling Clementine is the warmest, the kindest, the sweetest Western of all! It's not about gunfighting or Wyatt Earp. It's about Clementine. One time, she's standing next to Earp at the barber shop. Clementine says she likes the smell of desert flowers. "That's me," says Earp. "Barber."