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
James Earp California. James Earp died of natural causes in San Bernardino, California, on January 25, 1926. He is interred there at the Mountain View Cemetery. In the 1946 film "My Darling Clementine", James was played by Don Garner. In 1955, the actor John Smith, prior to his lead roles in "Cimarron City" and "Laramie", played the part of James Earp in the film "Wichita", starring Joel McCrea and Vera Miles. In the 1957 "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral", it is the fictional assassination of Jimmy Earp (Martin Milner) that leads directly to the titular showdown. In the 1994 film "Wyatt Earp",