Blooper

In Doc Holliday's first scene, once he pulls his guns on Ed Bailey, he immediately throws both guns' hammers back. Then, it cuts to a different angle and shows him slowly pull one gun's hammer back again. Then, when he puts his guns down, somehow, neither hammers are cocked anymore.

When Doc Holiday keels over and falls from his horse, there's a substantial amount of blood coming from his mouth as he spits up. Once on the ground and before he's assisted, there is barely any blood present.

The delay between Curly Bill shooting his pistol and the smashing of the window and lamp is too long.

During the first Mexican village scene, when the wedding party is leaving the church the preacher puts on his hat inside the church. As the party leaves the church he is seen putting it on again.

After the gunfight at the OK Corral, there is a funeral procession at sunset. In the long shots, Ike's hand carrying the flowers is at his side, but in the close-ups he is holding the flowers up.

Contrary to the film, Fred White did not die immediately after being shot by Curly Bill, but lingered long enough to testify that he himself thought the shooting was accidental. It was White's testimony, combined with evidence that the guns had a hair trigger, that acquitted Curly Bill, not Cowboy intimidation of potential witnesses.

Warren and James Earp are absent in this film, despite their presence in Tombstone. Granted, neither of them participated in the gunfight at the O.K. Corral, which is likely one reason for their absence, but Warren later rode with Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Jack Johnson, Jack Vermillion, and Sherman McMasters in the epic Earp Vendetta Ride.

The Iron Springs shootout between Wyatt's posse and Curly Bill's gang is depicted as an ambush by the latter. In reality, the two parties met almost by accident; Wyatt Earp and his men were looking for water and came across Bill and his men, who were camping in the area.

Wyatt Earp did not carry the Buntline Special Colt at the OK Corral. His gun then was a Smith & Wesson American .44, nickel plated and scroll engraved.

Contrary to the film's portrayal, Doc Holliday did not leave the O.K. Corral gunfight unscathed. He received a minor glancing blow to the hip, possibly from Frank McLaury, towards the end of the skirmish.

Many viewers think that during the gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Doc fires his double-barreled shotgun three times in a row. He would need to reload to accomplish this. He actually fired just two times, the second shot (him shooting Tom McLaury) --was shown twice from two different angles.

In the gun fight at the O.K. Corral, gun shots are being fired from all participants and yet the horse still rears at a blast from Doc Holliday's shotgun later in the battle. That gun was louder than the others, and possibly closer to the horse.

Doc Holliday talks about players who play Faro, "Only suckers buck the tiger. The odds are all with the house." In reality, Faro had a very low house edge, only slightly better than even.

When Doc and Ringo met in the bar scene, you can see the blood on Ringo's shirt. It's the very same blood stain on Ringo's shirt when Doc and Ringo met each other under the oak tree down by the creek.

When Wyatt and Josephine are riding together, her right leg over the horn of the sidesaddle is obviously a prop. This can be verified after she gets to the bottom of the hill and turns her horse to the right. Her real leg can clearly be seen hanging on the right side of the saddle as she rides away.

When Wyatt and the others leave two cowboys hanging in front of the Dragoon Saloon, you can see clearly that neither man actually has a rope on his neck. As the one man swings around, on his jacket you can see the outline of the rope going straight down into the harness that's holding him.

In the O.K. Corral scene, the last Cowboy is simultaneously shot in the heart and through the head by Doc and Morgan respectively. When the shot cuts to him lying on the ground, he is visibly breathing.

Wyatt's group is sitting on horseback when they spot Johnny Ringo and his posse through the telescope. Then Doc starts passing out and falls off his saddle, and the other guy catches him as he falls. He is out of his saddle and already standing on the ground to catch Doc when there would have been no reason for him to have dismounted.

A previous post said "When Kate is cleaning the poker table she moves Doc's guns aside to gather the goods. When she and Doc start walking away from the table towards the exit Doc's guns are missing from the table and back in Doc's holsters." but if you watch carefully Kate moves the pistols towards Doc and he CLEARLY picks them up and puts them in their holsters. Then they move to the door.

Somehow Doc Holliday is able to fire his double-barreled shotgun three times without reloading during the O.K Corral shootout.

Some scenes show electrical lights over the pool tables. Light bulbs were invented in 1878 but Tombstone did not have electricity until 1902. Furthermore, pocket billiards as we know it today (using striped, numbered object balls) would not have been played in the American West of the 1870s, having only been developed in the early decades of the twentieth century; the immediate forerunner of pocket billiards (using solid-colored, unnumbered balls) wasn't invented until around 1900.

When Doc is playing poker with Ed Bailey and Doc lays his guns on the table, a 1932 (or later) Washington quarter is visible on the table.

The Bird Cage Theater did not open its doors until December 25, 1881, almost three months to the day after the gunfight at the OK Corral, yet in scene 7 of the movie you see Curly Bill Brocious and Johnny Ringo enjoying the show, along with all the Earps, BEFORE the gunfight took place.

When Wyatt first arrives in Tombstone in 1879, the Bird Cage Theatre is in the background. The Bird Cage was not built until 1881.

Pane glass is shown being used in multiple scenes throughout the film. Prior to the 20th century much cheaper wave glass was used, especially outside of the major cities when glass was needed for windows.

In the opening scene, we see a Winchester Model 1873 being loaded. A round is then levered onto the chamber. The sound is that of a different rifle as the model '73 has a very distinctive "clank" caused by the heavy brass cartridge lifter.

In the gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Ike Clanton runs from the photography studio and falls to the ground. As he scrambles to his feet, a crew member in a blue shirt and white pants is visible in the background, moving in a crouch from left to right, and goes out of sight behind a fence.

When Virgil goes outside on the night of the storm after seeing Wyatt and Morgan, the arm of a crane is visible in the background behind the roof of a building. It sticks vertically up in the air, probably for mounting lights.

After the Earp Vendetta run, as the riders are filmed from above, tire tracks are seen in the scrub grass they're riding through.

In a short take, about one hour and nine minutes into the movie, where Virgil says "They are threatening our lives", camera glass mirror artifacts are visible on Virgil and Morgan's hats.

Boot Hill Cemetery was not in the town. It's a mile away and it is not on flat ground. They never had them in town due to diseases.

The water tower at the Tucson train station lists the elevation as 2,584 feet. Tucson's actual elevation is 2,389 feet.

At the end of the movie, Wyatt asks Josie if she's ever seen California from the Rocky Mountains. This is impossible, since it's around 650 miles at the very least from the Rockies to the California border. It would be roughly equivalent to being able to see Portland, Oregon from San Francisco.

The gunfight at the OK Corral actually took place in a vacant lot on Fremont Street near the OK Corrall, not in the corral.

Virgil Earp was shot and permanently disabled before Morgan Earp was killed.

After the shootout at the OK Corral the Clantons filed murder charges and the Earps were arrested and tried for murder, contrary to what is shown with Wyatt defiantly walking away from the marshal.

After taking Opium, Curly Bill shoots his 6-shooters 9 times before there is a lull in the gunfire audio, and still he begins firing again and killed the sheriff before he would have had time to reload.

The night that Fred White is killed by Curly Bill, Sheriff Behan and Josephine walk outside to see what all the commotion is about and both personally witness the murder and react in shock. In the next scene, Wyatt explains that the judge said Curly Bill was freed because "you can't have a murder without a witness". However, it was well established by then that Behan's sympathies lay with the Cowboys, and Josie was likely fearful of retribution, which makes it entirely plausible that there would be a convenient lack of witnesses to the shooting.

Johnny Ringo was not an educated man, contrary to the mythology surrounding him. It is questionable if he even finished high school, and he certainly would not be able to speak Latin as portrayed. His family were poor dirt farmers from Indiana who traveled west where Johnny got into trouble with the law at an early age.

After Marshal White is killed, Wyatt has a gun to Ike Clanton's head while Holiday has his guns on Billy Clanton, yet Virgil rushes in and needlessly fires his shotgun into the air, which could have turned the tense situation into a disaster.

At the beginning of the film, when Johnny shoots the priest, he is asked what the priest was saying before he was killed.

Johnny replies "He was quoting the Bible, Revelations.....".

The name of the last book of the Bible is Revelation. There is no "s" after the "n" .