WYATT EARP Hollywood & History with TV's Morgan Earp, actor Ray Boyle A WORD ON WESTERNS
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- On TV's classic "The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp," Hugh O'Brian portrayed Wyatt, Ray Boyle (aka Dirk London) was Morgan Earp and John Anderson was Virgil. The hit series (1955-1961) was created by Executive Producer Louis F. Edelman and based on the book "Wyatt Earp Frontier Marshal" by Stuart N. Lake, who had interviewed Earp several times before he died January 13, 1929, at the age of 80. The TV company hired Lake as a consultant for the series. A history buff, actor Ray Boyle spent time with Lake and was fascinated to hear the first hand accounts of the legendary lawman.
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This is truely one of the best interview programs about western cinema and TV ever. Rob Word has brought TV and screen legends to his show as well a directors, character actors and behind the scene people and spouses of famous actors. In the audience are many recognizable faces as well. Rob Word knows his western genre as well as anyone and is always prepared to ask to proper questions. He understands how to keep an interview moving and, as a result, he is at the forefront of his game.
Watched the show when I was a kid. Found it again on Amazon videos and enjoying it again. My grandfather was born in 1876 and used to tell me stories about Texas in the late 1800’s. My family pioneered the Texas Red River country and I was raised on a ranch. This history is so interesting. Too bad the current generation doesn’t appreciate or even have knowledge of it. A couple years ago on a cross country trip with my grandson I came across Daniel Boone’s burial site in MO. When I excitedly told young professionals back at my job in Seattle they didn’t know who Daniel Boone was! What a pity! Oh yeah, new sub too!👍
I visited Daniel Boone's parents burial site in NC, announced by a Hwy marker.
I met Hugh 0’Brien at a Broadway theater on the 1980’wherr he was an audience member and he was so kind. RIP Hugh!
I am 32 years old and I saw Tombstone in 1993 when I just a child. IT IS MY FAVORITE IN THE WORLD!! THERE IS NOTHING BETTER!! And I was the 1000 LIKE ON THIS VIDEO!! 👌😁👍
hope one day Val could come on the show. his portrayal of Doc should have won him an oscar.
@hiram hacklesworth for best actor, but not supporting right? Val shudda been for supporting.
@hiram hacklesworth say hi from me to your "mom" lol
@hiram hacklesworth a wise choice as Liberace was really a beer guzzling good ol boy in real life on his days off!
hiram hacklesworth oh hell no they better not!!! That would be a travesty!!!!😭😭😭
@@gmatwotimes it was a joke
Another wonderful segment, and interview. Ray Boyle is very charming and it was wonderful to hear his take on things. Wow, talk about history. Love your interview style as well, Rob, keep up the good work and thanks for such a great show!
Thanks, Craig. Nice meeting you and Jenna in Tombstone on The Vendetta Ride! I'm ready to do it again.
When I was a kid at home, there was no choice other than watching what my parents wanted. One TV for the entire family, in the front room, as family activity. Wyatt Earp was one of their favorites, and I eventually grew to like it. I was thrilled during my first visit to Tombstone, Az., swilling a few beers and dancing at the Crystal Palace (which has no resemblance to a palace!), and the crowing glory was the OK Corral shoot out. It became so commercialized, I stopped going, but, oh, back in the 70s & 80s it was great fun!
RIP to my uncle Ray ❤️❤️ true legend
Wyatt earp was one tough man .enjoyed this interview
What an insightful interview. Keep these babies of knowledge firing away. Thank You, Mr. Stand By Your Word regarding westerns. 👍👍🤓
Thank You for your email, a Man of His Words. Yeah, it's a cliche, but you demonstrate the Art of the Interview, Mr. Sponge Rob. You demonstrate listening, patience, & feedback: Virtues. And Your Hits Just Keep On Coming! The Western Films have a Code. You sustain it. Carry On! 🤓
To have Ray Boyle endorse the movie "Tombstone" is very much an honor. This interview (sans the commercials) was sterling! Thank you, Rob, and keep up your wonderful work!
Matthew Hamersly Thanks, Matthew. We’ve been trying to make our episodes longer, now approximately 10 minutes. At the longer length, TH-cam inserts a commercial that’s seen on some of the viewers’ receivers.
@@AWordonWesterns Thank you. I don't mind commercials so much, I just mentioned it because that's about all that was short of perfection.
Continue the great work!
The best thing that ever happened to Tombstone was the “gunfight” as far as tourism is concerned. It’s the only reason I and so many others visited this little tourist trap town and so many other similar dusty Western towns. We love Old West history!
I’ve caught up with “Legend of Wyatt Earp” on television and caught up to the OK Corral episode. They did an excellent job on it.
Really nice interview..love these people from the past who know our correct history..Thanks for posting this.!
@@mikebtrfld1705 yeah. Why..you got a peoblem with it.?
I love everyone of these interviews , keep up the great work!!! And thanks for the work of putting these together....
Very good video. I like anything about Wyatt Earp
Ahhh man, what a pleasant surprise, a AWOW before Sunday!!!
Went online to work on bills, bills gonna have to wait.
Just so impressed with all the guests you can find to interview, Rob.
Always loved Hugh O'Brian in the Wyatt Earp role. The GRIT channel currently runs four 1/2 hour episodes on weekdays, from 8-10:00 am, EST (EDST).
You can find all seasons of Wyatt Earp on the Roku network for free.
Excellent, as always, of course. Thanks Rob.
Thank you Rob. I was mesmerized by this interview. So interesting and just great. I say Wahoo!
Wonderful to see these interviews.
Amazing how close the connection with the past is. We don't appreciate that we are just a generation away from these events or people who personally knew the key historical figures associated with them.
I love this. Thanks so much. I love Hugh
From what I've read, Josephine "Earp" became the bane of Wyatt's life. Her gambling habits often created financial difficulties for the couple. Neither she nor Wyatt could be described as sterling characters, just products of their time. Yet, given the prevailing prejudices, it is noteworthy that Wyatt was respectful of her Jewish heritage, and they remained together until his death (despite rumors of infidelity by both partners). She was highly protective of her checkered past as well as Wyatt's reputation, which created problems for Stuart Lake. Combined with the passage of time, it is doubtful Lake could have written a truly accurate and authentic book. The best he could do was capture the flavor of the period and present it in a romanticized form for a 20th Century audience.
As an aside, there are two discrepancies I'd like to address. The first is the period photo of a woman presumed to be Josephine. I believe ut may actually be an image of Pauline Markham, a popular burlesque star of the time. Josephine claimed to have performed as a member of her troupe, but their is scant evidence of this. The second is that ridiculous 12" Colt "Buntline Special" being used by Hugh O'Brien. There are no records of such a pistol ever being made by Colt back then, nor is there evidence Wyatt used such a firearm. He did use a Colt Model 1873 Single Action Army revolver at the O.K. Corral gunfight, but it would have been one of their standard offerings, either 4 3/4", 5 1/2", or 7 1/2". Ned Buntline was quite the rascal (putting it mildly), and his claim that he had Colt built several 12" revolvers for him to present to famous lawmen of the old west is pure bovine scatology.
Please do not take my comments as criticisms of your work. Quite the contrary, I greatly enjoy what you are doing, preserving an oral history of the golden age of western film making. It may have started out as simple fictional entertainment, but it has become as much a part of American lore as the people these films emulate.
You are truly a western historian. Thank You for your insight. 👍👍🤓
@@philipmoreau1224 Thanks, but I'm no historian. I've just read a good bit over the years and have tried to separate fact from fiction, which is an impossible task. In the words of my late grandfather, "History is an agreed upon error".
Outstanding episode. Loved every second of this. Would love to see more like this...on the history of the old west. Thanks Rob...and everyone else involved.
Another very interesting interview. Thanks.
Very enjoyable interview. Mr Boyle seems to be sharp as a tack, and his ability to recount events is remarkable.
Wow this whole series just keeps getting better!
Really enjoyed it . thanks , very informative !!!
Great !!!!! much enjoyed !!!!!!
Keep up the great work. I think what you are doing is a huge service.
I'm spoiled!....... I missed my Sunday "A Word on Westerns"😥
Gosh that was so informative! Very interesting, I must say Rob Word I really liked all of this, nice green shirt Rob Word! Thanks again
Thanks, Carolyn
A final note if I may, the last words in Tombstone: Robt. Mitchum's voice, "Tom Mix wept." That gets me every single time.
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Lyle Gorch me too!!!
I really enjoy your videos.
Your the best Rob
Thank you
Tombstone starring Kurt Russell is one of my all time favorites so this was really neat to hear. Especially about the “bankers” lol. Thanks a million y’all!! Yep I’m from Texas!! 🐴 🤠 🐎
you one uh mah exes???
Just think not!!! Lol
The Roku channel is showing the series these days and it looks really good. And there's a great book out there that might be hard to find: The Earp Brothers of Tombstone, by Frank Waters.
Thanks for the info about Roku, Lyle! Watched the first episode of Wyatt Earp. I see they have The Adventures Of Jim Bowie as well. With so little worth watching on TV these are real treats. Thanks again bro.!! Fair Winds
Writers today saying the book was glorified.
Yeh and like these present day writers don't do the same?
A frequent trick that is used is that a conversation between two persons is shown but there is no proof available that the conversation was ever said. This conversation can be tailored to a viewpoint that is wanted and there will be people that will then take it to be fact.
The constant shifting of "opinions" about Wyatt Earp are in many ways more fascinating than Earp himself, because they tell us much about the nature of the times and the people in them.
While there are aspects of Stuart Lake's account that do seem "glorified" to our modern opinions, his book has turned out to be far more accurate in some details than his detractors are willing to admit. There is also of course the question of how much the final book was shaped by Josie Earp's "editing" of the historical record.
In any case, Wyatt Earp was immortalized as a Western hero during the height of the Great Depression, a time when people needed heroes as the exploits of contemporary outlaws like John Dillinger, Al Capone, Bonnie & Clyde filled the newspapers. Finally reaching it's zenith in the 50's with the television series as well as the film GUNFIGHT AT THE O.K. CORRAL.
Then revisionist history settled in and everything was reversed. Everyone who was a hero, now was presumed a villain. Everything that made an American feel proud now had to fill them with shame. Every wart that had been left out of their, admittedly idealized portraits was now made the sole defining feature of their entire legacy. So the hero Wyatt Earp was torn down from his pedestal and tarred a monster for the crime of... not being a saint apparently.
Which is true, Earp was a flawed human being and if he was a hero, it was not by design, it was by virtue of being "the right man at the right place in the right time."
I have to agree with Mr. Boyle that out of all of the films & television series, TOMBSTONE, even with it's own "glorification" moments, is the most accurate of them all to date, particularly in regards to the gunfight. Oddly enough, the most inaccurate thing in TOMBSTONE might be Kurt Russell's performance, who's a little too emotional & reluctant. Kevin Costner's stoic, reserved performance in WYATT EARP seems closer to the real Wyatt, although the film is still not as good.
Regardless of opinions or Earp's character the facts are these: Wyatt Earp rode into a town racked with violence from men who were UNDENIABLY criminals, he killed some of them, broke apart their power, left the town an outcast but he left with the woman he would spend the rest of his life with.
The real, flawed, human Wyatt Earp fulfilled the Western myth.
No amount of revisionist history can change that.
Thank You for Reading.
In in
Christmas comes early..... "A Word on Westerns" is here on Thursday!!!👍
Ken, it's a bonus!
Didn’t mean for this Sunday’s show to appear early. I screwed up using TH-cam’s screwy new “improvements.”
Are you kidding, Rob? We loved the "bonus" clip. You should do that more often. We won't complain.
@@AWordonWesterns You ought to have Bruce Dern one of these days.Would love to hear him talk about shooting The Duke in THE COWBOYS..
don't forget the big hollywood 50's production with Burt, still kicking at 102 Kirk, and also still kicking at 95 Rhonda Fleming, and star treck's Bones, etc. the song by the great Frankie Laine. speaking of Rhonda......she's a wonderful woman. www.rhondafleming.com click to hear her interview a few years ago when she was 88.
A Cowboy hat with Tennis Shoes is a Hanging offence in West Texas, Hoss!!! :)
Great video
Rob, how would a person get to be in the audience for one of your programs?
It would be amazing to have Val on the show!!!! 👏👏👏👏👍👍👍
don't forget the big hollywood 50's production with Burt, still kicking at 102 Kirk, and also still kicking at 95 Rhonda Fleming, and star treck's Bones, etc. the song by the great Frankie Laine. speaking of Rhonda......she's a wonderful woman. www.rhondafleming.com click to hear her interview a few years ago when she was 88.
Thanks. It would be great to have Kirk and Rhonda share their memories. I wish we had been doing this series 10 or 20 years ago.
A Word on Westerns me too!!
Just think I saw a video not long ago and Kirk was actually dancing and said he felt great!! I think he always exercised and it’s paying off!! Way to go Kirk!!!
@@gmatwotimes He's The Man!
Did not know Ray was married to Jan Shepard till I checked out IMDB.
JOHN ALLEN we have done several AWOW episodes with the wonderful Jan Shepard. Check ‘em out.
I have Rob Loved them all!
@@AWordonWesterns
thanks for a brilliant interview.watching hugh on amazon in wyatt earp its brilliant. hugh is excellent.recently found walter hustons and harry carey version on you tube recently in a lot of books in the u.k said it was a lost movie. i suppose the rasputin libel case which cost mgm a fortune is the reason for changing the names in this movie and frontier marshall remade almost shot for shot by ford in my darling clementine. they couldnt name him or doc for fear relatives are still living. agree the best two wyatt earps are kurt and hugh.though joel mcrea looked exactly like a youg wyatt. and i have a personal love for jim garner in hour of the gun and what should have been an oscar shot in the vastly underrated sunset. in kurts version debate raged on you tube about docs flowery language which some said ruined the film and some like me said made it.i discovered in the latest earp book that all the best lines in it were taken from the reporters of the time and other reliable witnesses so he did say im your huckleberry and we paying for blood thats my game.that shows how well researched the movie was.also russel and hugh have that courage that the job must take but do everything to avoid the bloodshed.the other point the book made was the vast amounts of cash the dead cowboys had on them.the author surmised as it was a saturday that they had spent the previous day collecting protection from the tombstone businesse s. it was this the earps wanted to stop but didnt want to do it court when the victims would not give evidence in case the cowboys killed them. by catching them in the act earp may have thought would have warned them off without threat to the townsfolk. then the plan went west and the cowboys shot it out leading to the brutal aftermath. john ford met wyatt but dont believe his fairy story of shooting just earp said the ok corral.at the time of his meeting in the 20s with ford the only thing he did was to keep getting the entire crew drunk whenever he visited the set much to fords annoyance,.lovely interview as always thanks againbob.
mike kemp Thanks, Mike. We like having western fans in the Old Country! Keep spreading the Word. Rob
Stuart Lake was a very good writer of fiction (see the movies he wrote for Hollywood - good stories all) and his biography of Wyatt Earp was just that. When you “glorify” the facts you create fiction and leave truth lying dead in the dust.
Why are people nowadays using the word passed for dead or passed away? Are we afraid to say it, that Wyatt died.
Ronnie Bishop I it’s a Southern Christian habit - I often hear older Southerners usenit. I think the find the word less harsh or upsetting than died”. The same people sometimes defer to a funeral as a “Homecoming” - very based in Southern Baptist tradition .. Younger people aren’t afraid of using the word “died.”
Connie Crawford Well I’m from Oklahoma and I’m a southern Baptist but I just never heard that term. I learn everyday. And I live this show.
The movie that most accurately depicts the gunfight at the OK Corral was “Tombstone” with Kurt Russell. The TV series “The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp” with Hugh O’Brian was practically all fictional. I used to watch the series as a kid. The series creators didn’t even try and make O’Brian look anything like Earp. The stories were just made up to entertain children which they did Any relationship the weekly episodes had to do with facts was purely accidental.
Was this FILMED RECENTLY???
Wyatt Earp was the one who tried to take on *BILLY THE KID* aka "BRUSHY BILL"look it up on TH-cam.
Rob! Where's our regular Sunday interview?
Joza Texan It dropped early this week, on Thursday.
A Word on Westerns, NO! That was a bonus.
Joza Texan Ha! It was a TH-cam error.
It was a goid interview until you squeezed in the advertisement
Hey Rob
Are there any longer episodes, I cant imagine people coming for only 10 minuets with such big stories and stars. I would think they would want to ask questions for hours and hours.
Any way keep up the good work.
Hi, Paul. Yes, the actual live interviews are usually between 15 and 25 minutes, depending on how many celebrities show up on our tape day. The segments are broken down into themes, our original shows were kept to 3-5 minutes. As you know, current network talk shows now usually allow about 6 minute segments with their guests. We've now extended our AWOW running time and are trying to hit the 10 minute mark with each new episode, which takes about 20-25 hours a week to continue producing and editing each weekly episode. If you're able, come to the free live shows at The Autry Museum in LA. It's the 3rd Tuesday of every other month. Coming up in 2019...July 16, Sept 17 and Nov 19th, 11am-1pm. Thanks for watching and your comments.
Where are the complete interviews?
Ed Stevens Many of the full, live interviews are already posted and up in multiple segments. We have tripled the episode length since we began almost 7 years ago. I am now spending 25-30 hours a week in an effort to preserve and bring these interviews to film fans and historians. Ultimately all segments will be available. Keep watching and thanks.
@@AWordonWesterns Thank you for your reply....do enjoy those interviews..
Most of what is credited to Wyatt, was really accomplished by Virgil. Until Dodge City. The fight at the OK corral was not at the OK corral. Wyatt gdid manage to shoot a horse but missed everyone of the cowboys. So much for his being a great shot. Doc Holliday and Virgil killed or wounded the most men and Morgan killed one . Wyatt's stories were the imagination of his wife,who constantly wrote to the newspapers with her version of Wyatt's life. When in Alaska,Wyatt got a dose of his own medidence, when the town marshal hit him over the head with a pistol when Wyatt Was drunk and acting up. Stuart's book has mostly been discredited over the years. No saying Wyatt was not a brave man and a good lawman.
Citation needed.
Another Saurday Night, And I ain't Got Much To Do, But To Go Banking(words of Josephine). My conjecture. Sounds possible.
This is from Wikipedia:"Despite its name, the gunfight did not take place within or next to the O.K. Corral, which fronted Allen Street and had a rear entrance lined with horse stalls on Fremont Street. The shootout actually took place in a narrow lot on the side of C. S. Fly's Photographic Studio on Fremont Street, six doors west of the O.K. Corral's rear entrance". So anything depicting a gunfight at the OK Corral was purely fiction. And Hollywood thrives on sensational fiction, even when telling 'true stories'. Manicured streets, no horse droppings and everyone freshly clean and wearing makeup....you'll never get the real version following film and pulp fiction from back in the day. "Tombstone" came as close as you will probably ever get. But even at that, they fired the guy who made the factual first script, gutted a lot of it and Russel pushed to go forward anyway. So even though "Tombstone" mixed facts with fiction, it's the best we have on film of the Earps.
Look up the account of the preliminary hearing, and justice of the peace Wells Spicer over seen for the next 30 days. To bring this gunfight down to the level of over a woman is so off track and petty. Wyatt lost a brother and another maimed from the cowboys vs merchants of the town feud. Like I said, look up the trial notes after the gunfight.
There are always layers and layers to events.
It was obvious to me after a time that Josephine's change of
affections was a contributing factor, just one among many.
For a similar situation, look at the Big Fight at the Jenkins Saloon:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Fight_at_the_Jenkins_Saloon
that occurred only 5 years later.
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"Frontier Marshal " is basically a product of Stuart Lake's imagination. Wyatt Earp was never the town marshal of any Kansas cowtown or Tombstone AZT. The "Buntline Special" is a story made up by Lake. (Ned Buntline was fishing in the Carolinas at the time was supposed to be giving Wyatt and four other lawmen "Buntline Special " revolvers. Ned Buntline wrote only one western story and it was about Wild Bill Hickok.)
No..the movie tombstone was so stupid..he says it was the most authentic..dam..I didnt know he was there..lol..
So the fight at the OK Corral was over a woman?
All the movies and shows are pretty much ahistorical BS. The absolutely best book on this is Casey Terfeteller's book Wyatt Earp. It is well documented and covers the politics of democrat-republican rift in Tombstone as well as the fact that Mr. Earp was an enforcer that the law and order business people liked but never considered to be their social equals; sort of like veterans. The book deals with Mr. Earp's years in Kansas and his post Tombstone dealings in Washington state, Alaska, and California; there's an Earp, California near the Nevada line. Of note is his relationship with Josephine was definitely not the blissful thing that the media portrays; she spends the money faster than I can make it. They lived in relative poverty and with relatives during the last years of Wyatt's life.
You're correct. The movies have defined who Earp was and that's a shame. He was far more complicated than any movie or TV series have shown him to be. The situation in Tombstone was very complicated in terms of good guys and bad guys but Americans want simplicity and that's what the movies gave them.
@@gerrydooley951 Gerry: Practically all the rubbish that emanates from the media is nothing more that partisan propaganda. People need to read more.
Why does A Word on Westerns never answer anyone's questions?
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Sorry, I researched the truth and the movie was pure fiction.
In reality 4 heavily armed men with at least 5 guns against 4 men with 2 guns between them isn't much of a gunfight more like murder. Running saloons and being lawmen at the same time seems like a conflict of interest and the Earp family did it in almost every town they where in! And if they where as crooked as i think they where well the O.K. corral and it's aftermath was thair end also.
lambastepirate You need to brush up on your history. The Clanton’s and their allies were no angels. A rough time for sure and definitely survival of the fittest. A lot of the old lawmen had ridden on both sides of the law. You didn’t have police academies in the old west. Just needed someone who could do the job. This wasn’t a time for movie western foolishness. It was get them before they get us.
@@mtnman4766 Brush up on yours friend a gun fight implies all people are armed 3 of the 5 in Clanton's group where not, one fled as it started so only 4 clanton's where really involved if it is about Earp here is a link for you www.desertusa.com/desert-people/wyatt-earp.html it should have been called a feud in truth, not a gun fight.