Editing My Darling Clementine (section)

==Production==
===Development===
In 1931, [[Stuart N. Lake|Stuart Lake]] published the first [[Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal|biography]] two years after Earp's death.<ref name=goodman/> Lake retold the story in the 1946 book ''My Darling Clementine'',<ref name=goodman/> for which Ford acquired the film rights. The two books have been determined to be largely fictionalized stories about the [[Earp brothers]] and the [[gunfight at the O.K. Corral]] and their conflict with the outlaw [[The Cowboys (Cochise County)|Cowboys]]: [[Billy Clanton]], [[Tom McLaury]] and his brother [[Frank McLaury]]. The gunfight was relatively unknown to the American public until Lake published the two books and after the movie was made.<ref name=goodman/>

Director [[John Ford]] said that when he was a prop boy in the early days of [[silent pictures]], Earp would visit pals he knew from his Tombstone days on the sets. "I used to give him a chair and a cup of coffee, and he told me about the fight at the O.K. Corral. So in ''My Darling Clementine'', we did it exactly the way it had been."<ref name=Hutton/><ref name=gallagher/> Ford did not want to make the movie, but his contract required him to make one more movie for [[20th Century Fox]].<ref name=Faragher/>

In their later years, Wyatt and [[Josephine Earp]] worked hard to eliminate any mention of Josephine's previous relationship with [[Johnny Behan]] or Wyatt's previous common law marriage to Matty Blaylock. They successfully kept Josephine's name out of Lake's biography of Wyatt and after he died, Josephine threatened to sue the movie producers to keep it that way.<ref name=rosa/> Lake corresponded with Josephine, and he claimed she attempted to influence what he wrote and hamper him in every way possible, including consulting lawyers. Josephine insisted she was striving to protect Wyatt Earp's legacy.<ref name=shapell/>

After the movie ''[[Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (film)|Gunfight at the O.K. Corral]]'' (in which [[John Ireland]] portrayed another real-life figure [[Johnny Ringo]]) was released in 1957, the shootout came to be known by [[Gunfight at the O.K. Corral|that name.]]

===Writing===
The final script of the movie varies considerably from historical fact to create additional dramatic conflict and character. Clementine Carter is not a historical person, and in this script, she appears to be an amalgam of [[Big Nose Kate]] and [[Josephine Earp]]. The Earps were also never cowboys, drovers, or cattle owners. Important plot devices in the film and personal details about the main characters were all liberally adapted for the movie.<ref name=Signal/>

[[Old Man Clanton]] actually died before the gunfight and probably never met any of the Earps. Doc was a dentist, not a surgeon, and survived the shootout. James Earp, who was portrayed as the youngest brother and the first to die in the story, actually was the eldest brother and lived until 1926. The key women in Wyatt's and Doc's lives—Wyatt's common law wife [[Josephine Earp|Josephine]] and Doc's common-law wife [[Big Nose Kate]]—were not present in Lake's original story and were kept out of the movie as well. The film gives the date of the gunfight as 1882 although it actually occurred in 1881.<ref name=nixon/>

Upon leaving Tombstone, the itinerant actor, Granville Thorndyke ([[Alan Mowbray]]), bids farewell to the old soldier, "Dad" ([[Francis Ford (actor)|Francis Ford]], John Ford's elder brother), with lines from [[Joseph Addison]]'s poem ''The Campaign'':

{{Blockquote|text=Great souls by instinct to each other turn,
Demand allegiance, and in friendship burn...}}

===Filming===
Much of the film was shot in [[Monument Valley]], a scenic desert region straddling the Arizona-Utah border used in other John Ford movies. It is 500 miles (800&nbsp;km) away from the town of Tombstone in southern Arizona.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.google.ca/maps/dir/Tombstone,+AZ,+Zdru%C5%BEene+dr%C5%BEave+Amerike/Monument+Valley,+UT,+United+States/@34.3424682,-113.1153946,7z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m13!4m12!1m5!1m1!1s0x86d73bf34f9af3b9:0x9af6f593bb45fc15!2m2!1d-110.0675764!2d31.7128683!1m5!1m1!1s0x87372f52a255883f:0x3917265594ee6825!2m2!1d-110.1734785!2d37.0042454|title = Google Maps}}</ref> After seeing a preview screening of the film, 20th Century Fox studio boss [[Darryl F. Zanuck]] thought Ford's original cut was too long and had some weak spots, so he had [[Lloyd Bacon]] shoot new footage and heavily edit the film.<ref name=nixon/> Zanuck had Bacon cut 30 minutes from the film.<ref name=Faragher/>

While Ford's original cut of the film has not survived, a "pre-release" cut dating from a few months after the preview screening was discovered in the UCLA film archives; this version preserves some additional footage as well as alternative scoring and editing. UCLA film preservationist Robert Gitt edited a version of the film that incorporates some of the earlier version.<ref name=Turan/> A significant change is the film's final scene: in the 1946 release, Earp kisses Clementine goodbye; in Ford's original, he shakes her hand.<ref name=ArnoldSteiner/>