Goofs

When the OK corral fight commences, one of the Earp brothers fires a shotgun at the wagon the Clanton gang is in. Ike yells "shotgun" and they duck. The pellets from the shotgun blast are clearly seen hitting the canvas on the wagon, forming a large circle with the many different pellet holes. Two scenes later when they return to the same canvas, all the pellet holes are gone.

When Wyatt goes to his hotel room near the beginning of the movie, he uses a key to unlock the door. He then enters the room and the door is now seen to have a regular door knob with no keyhole and no lock mechanism.

When Wyatt takes Billy back to the Clanton Ranch, Billy's mother leads him into the house, closing the screen door, but not the solid door as they enter. Wyatt then picks up Billy's hat and goes into the house. When Wyatt enters the house (inside shot) a few seconds later, he opens the solid door.

When Wyatt Earp rides in to town, dismounts and walks toward Cotton Wilson's office, his holstered gun is clearly outside his jacket on the right hand side. But when he enters the sheriff's office, just one step later, his gun is not visible.

When James Earp gets shot, the position of his arms differ when Wyatt finds him.

More than once Wyatt and Doc discuss the casual gaining and losing of money at figures like: $5,000 and $10,000. That's the modern equivalent of $100,000 and $200,000 dollars. Hardly a realistic depiction of finances for frontiersmen in 1881. Several hundred dollars would be more in line.

The shootout at the O.K. Corral was October 26, 1881. The rifles used in the movie were 1892 Winchesters. The 1873 Winchester would be correct for that time period.

The famous shootout took about 30 seconds but in the movie it takes about 8 minutes.

The real Gunfight took place at about 3 p.m., yet the film depicts it as being "at sun-up."

The film has Wyatt drinking whiskey like the rest of the guys. The real Wyatt Earp was noted for his teetotal lifestyle which he rarely deviated from.

When Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday return to Earp's office in Dodge City after having killed the three men who'd tried to ambush them at their campsite, Deputy Charlie Bassett tells Holliday, "I hear you did some pretty fancy shooting, Doc". However, Earp just arrived, and he hadn't had time to tell Bassett about the shooting.

In the trailer, the voice-over states the gunfight occurred on October 6 1888. Instead of October 26 1881.

Early in the movie, Doc Holliday is playing solitaire. Every card he turns is a black card. As in another game, later on, the denominations of the cards change from one shot to another.

During the final gunfight, one of the wires to the fake bullets along a brick wall is exposed.

During the gunfights, there are no bullets and no blood.

Doc Holliday is shown with a brown chenille bedspread. These weren't invented until the 1890.

Kirk Douglas was at least 40 at the time his scenes were filmed. The real Doc Holliday was 30 at the time of the gunfight and died at age 36.

Wyatt and Cotton reminisce about Oklahoma City, which was not founded until 1889.

When Shanghai Pierce shoots at the piano player, the sound of the piano is suddenly accompanied by an upright bass, but the pianist is the only musician there..

During the gunfight when Wyatt asks Virgil to cover him, he runs around the back of the wall. As he peeks around the wall he is shot at and the wall is hit. You then see the wires and charge used to create the effect fall and dangle from the wall.

At the beginning, the Bailey gang, and later Wyatt Earp, are shown riding into Fort Griffin, Texas past numerous saguaro cactuses. Fort Griffin is located in north-central Texas; there are no saguaro cactuses anywhere in Texas.

The map behind Wyatt Earp's desk in Dodge City is of Missouri with a bit of eastern Kansas. Dodge City is situated in western Kansas.

When Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday ride across the Kansas plains together from Dodge City, mountains are visible in the background. No mountains are visible in Kansas.

When Doc and Wyatt ride into Tombstone there are saguaro cactus all over the place but they don't grow at that elevation.

When Earp and Holliday first enter Tombstone on the southbound road, the Boot Hill cemetery is shown to be on their right, west of the road. Boot Hill should be on their left, east of the road, with a downward slope.

In the meeting in Wyatt Earp's office in Tombstone, Sheriff Cotton Wilson goads Earp by mentioning that Earp's woman (Laura Denbow) had run out on him. Since the couple's breakup had occurred quietly in Dodge City just prior to Earp's very recent departure for Tombstone, there's no way Wilson could have heard about the breakup at all, let alone so quickly.

Wyatt tells Doc of his plans to leave Kansas in 1879: "There's going to be one less lawman in the territory." Kansas has been a state, not a territory, since 29 January 1861, but it's possible he was just using a colloquial expression.

The character name of Jack Elam is listed as Tom McLowery. The last name of the actual brothers was spelled McLaury, Tom and Frank.