YONKERS FILM: “My Darling Clementine” Is Being Revived For Film Aficionados In The City Of Hills

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My Darling Clementine is a 1946 American Western film directed by John Ford and starring Henry Fonda as Wyatt Earpduring the period leading up to the gunfight at the OK Corral. The ensemble cast also features Victor Mature (as Doc Holliday), Linda Darnell, Walter Brennan, Tim Holt, Cathy Downs and Ward Bond. The title of the movie is borrowed from the theme song “Oh My Darling, Clementine“, sung in parts over the opening and closing credits. The screenplay is based on the fictionalized biography Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal by Stuart Lake,

Wyatt Earp and his brothers Morgan and Virgil ride into Tombstone and leave brother James in charge of their cattle herd. On their return they find their cattle stolen and James dead. Wyatt takes on the job of town marshal, making his brothers deputies, and vows to stay in Tombstone until James’ killers are found. He soon runs into the brooding, coughing, hard-drinking Doc Holliday as well as the sullen and vicious Clanton clan. Wyatt discovers the owner of a trinket stolen from James’ dead body and the stage is set for the Earps’ long-awaited revenge.

Film Synopsis By RoundupNewswires.com Editor Brian Harrod

Boasting a Tomatometer Score of 100 percent and an Audience Score of 85 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, this old-school film is a critical darling.

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/my_darling_clementine

Time Out’s Joshua Rothkopf said, “If ever there was a gateway drug to the happy addiction of Hollywood oaters, this is it,”

https://www.timeout.com/us/film/my-darling-clementine

Famed film critic Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times noted, “‘My Darling Clementine’ must be one of the sweetest and most good-hearted of all Westerns.”

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-my-darling-clementine-1946

You can catch it at Alamo Drafthouse Yonkers (2548 Central Park Avenue) through Wednesday, March 13th