The Earps battle the Clantons at the OK Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. . Tom Lehrer recorded a set of variations on the song on his live album An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer, demonstrating his theory that "folk songs are so atrocious because they were written by the people." These ever-shifting arrangements reflect My Darling Clementine’s broader understanding of how the frontier community itself rests in a state of flux. Wyatt uses the resultant dust cloud to his strategic advantage. But the book was later revealed as an unabashed romanticization of life and events in Tombstone. To anyone with a pooch who is suffering, my heart goes out to you. Henry Fonda stars as Earp, with Victor Mature as Doc Holliday, Linda Darnell as Chihuahua, Walter Brennan as Old Man Clanton, and Cathy Downs as the (historically unattested) title character. There’s the sense that this love will naturally blossom, that Wyatt will see his old pops and then one day return for his prize. The origin of the melody is unknown. The … And yet with My Darling Clementine, he opted for black and white. Script error: No such module "about". [1], Multiple variations of the song exist, but all center around Clementine, the daughter of a "miner forty-niner" and the singer's lover. (For more information, please see the entry for the 1934 Fox film, Frontier Marshal, in AFI Catalog of Feature Films, 1931-40; F3.1491. And all those happy Walkman years too! Henry Fonda stars as Earp, with Victor Mature as Doc Holliday, Linda Darnell as Chihuahua, Walter Brennan as Old Man Clanton, and Cathy Downs as the (historically unattested) title character. The low-slung genius of this film is that its every nuance appears loaded with information about a world (the world) that exists outside the confines of the frame. When the Clantons are wiped out, Ford offers a conciliatory low-angle peek at the heavens, but the bunched clouds provide only cruel ambiguity as to whether salvation awaits them. The re-written lyrics include a reference to Gene Autry ("could he sue me, Clementine?") So that's the reason you left. To anyone with a pooch who is suffering, my heart goes out to you. My name is Clementine and I’m a 1991 Nissan Figaro. AboutSee All. These ever-shifting arrangements reflect My Darling Clementine’s broader understanding of how the frontier community itself rests in a state of flux. My Darling Clementine is a 1946 American Western film directed by John Ford and starring Henry Fonda as Wyatt Earp during the period leading up to the gunfight at the OK Corral. They laughed. We lost a true pioneer this week. 2,791 people follow this. Atmospheric signifiers such as weather are muffled when compared with, say, the eloquent and expressive use of color for seasonal shifts in The Searchers (1956) or the shadows and fog of The Long Voyage Home (1940), as is any trite pictorial beauty that might sully this game of fill-in-the-blanks—though the skies look exquisite, as always in Ford’s films, with the wispy clouds appearing as if they’ve been choreographed by the director himself, inspired by western painters but resembling a particularly foreboding marine landscape by Turner. Mike Leigh’s midcareer masterpiece is one of the finest examples of his ability to construct riveting drama from ordinary life. It was released on the Dore label (SP DORE 539 (US)) in November, 1959; "You're on My Mind" was the B Side. My Darling Clementine was diagnosed this week with heart failure. They should be, um, fired! Accept them without seeing them and contributed chapters to the gunfight at the OK corral in Tombstone Arizona! 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