Hour of the Gun accuracy than most motion picture accounts of the events and is based on the non-fiction book "Tombstone's Epitaph" by Douglas D. Martin, with a screenplay by Edward Anhalt. In "Hour of the Gun" Ike Clanton is shown, correctly, to have survived the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, whereas previous films had him killed at the gunfight. Outnumbered but determined, Wyatt Earp (James Garner), his brothers Virgil (Frank Converse) and Morgan (Sam Melville) and ally Doc Holliday (Jason Robards) confront and clearly get the best of the Ike Clanton gang in a violent shootout at the O.K. Corral in the Arizona
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral "Johnny Ringo", and "Gunsmoke". Hugh O'Brian portrayed Earp on the namesake show "Wyatt Earp" which ran for six seasons, and he was forever associated with that role. A 2003 episode of Discovery Channel's "Unsolved History" used modern technology to attempt to re-enact the gunfight. They utilized a movie set to recreate a space similar to the lot where the original gun fight took place. They confirmed that the front-to-back wrist wound suffered by Billy Clanton could only have occurred if his arm was raised in the manner of one holding a pistol, and that the black powder may have obscured