shoot-out
A shootout (also known as an exchange of fire or a firefight ) is a violent confrontation in which at least two people armed with firearms are involved. In defining shooting, it doesn't matter whether or not people are killed.
Shootings in Culture
The - fictional - shootout, like the brawl and the chase, is a cinematic stylistic device that occurs above all in the genres of westerns , crime novels and action films .
The most famous historical model for the shootings in Westerns was the real-life shooting at OK Corral on October 26, 1881 at around 2:30 p.m. local time on Fremont Street and 3rd Street in Tombstone , Arizona ( USA ). A total of eight people were involved in the shooting: Wyatt Earp , Morgan Earp , Virgil Earp and Doc Holliday fought against Frank McLaury , Tom McLaury , Ike Clanton and Billy Clanton . Billy Claiborne was there by chance and got into the dispute as a bystander. Both McLaurys and Billy Clanton were killed, Holliday, Morgan Earp and Virgil Earp wounded, Ike Clanton and Billy Claiborne escaped unharmed.
Cinematic reception
- Law of the Prairie (1946) by John Ford with Henry Fonda
- Two accounts (1957) by John Sturges with Burt Lancaster , Kirk Douglas and Rhonda Fleming . The original title of this film, Gunfight at the OK Corral , was a major contributor to the inaccurate but now common name of this shootout.
- Doctor Who - Episodes 115 to 118, Storyline The Gunfighters (1966)
- The Five Outlaws (1967) by John Sturges with James Garner , Jason Robards and Robert Ryan
- Starship Enterprise (Star Trek) - Episode 61 Wild West in Space (Original Specter of the Gun , 1968)
- Doc (1971) by Frank Perry with Stacy Keach
- Wyatt Earp (1994) with Kevin Costner , Dennis Quaid and Gene Hackman
- Tombstone (1993) with Kurt Russell , Bill Paxton and Val Kilmer
- Crime scene: Born in pain
Books
- Lucky Luke , Volume 71, OK Corral (1997)
- Mister Blueberry , Volume 40 OK Corral (2003)
- Bloody Autumn by Loren D. Estleman ISBN 978-3-453-03018-3 (also appearing under the title Wyatt Earp ISBN 978-3-453-07354-8 )