The tuberculosis of “Doc” Holliday in the cinema. Hour of the Gun (1967) and “Doc” (1971)

The tuberculosis of “Doc” Holliday in the cinema. Hour of the Gun (1967) and “Doc” (1971)

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John Sturges’ Hour of the gun (1967) begins with the famous fight at the OK corral Winter Sports - Soft Goods - Jackets while Frank Perry’s “Doc”, like the earlier My Darling Clementine (1946) and Gunfight at the OK Corral (1957), ends there.Both films portray the pulmonary tuberculosis of “Doc” Holliday.The first one places special emphasis on “Doc”’s last days rod cap at the Glenwood Springs Tuberculosis Sanitorium while the second one, in which he is the main character, emphasises his incessant bouts of coughing..