Val Kilmer can be seen at the Casino doing his famous "coin flip" trick over his knuckles, except using a poker chip in place of a coin. He does this once in almost every film he starred in during the 80's through the 90's. It's quite impressive, and something fun to look for in his movies.
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Billy Clanton: Why, it's the drunk piano player. You're so drunk, you can't hit nothing. In fact, you're probably seeing double.
[He draws a knife, and Doc Holliday takes out a second gun.]
Doc Holliday: I have two guns, one for each of ya.
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In the beginning, when Doc Holiday is playing poker with Ed Bailey, they tell Doc to drop his cards. He does so, and reveals a poker of queens. In a fury, Ed Bailey stands up pushing the table. When he does this, you see Doc's cup with liquor in it fall and roll off the table. Doc even watches it fall off the table onto the floor. When they show Doc again, the cup is right there where it was before, in perfect stance. Doc even drinks the rest of the liquor inside it, a little bit later on in the scene. See more...
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Directed by George P. Cosmatos, starring Bill Paxton, Charlton Heston, Jason Priestley, Kurt Russell, Michael Biehn, Powers Boothe, Sam Elliott, Val Kilmer (add more)
Val Kilmer can be seen at the Casino doing his famous "coin flip" trick over his knuckles, except using a poker chip in place of a coin. He does this once in almost every film he starred in during the 80's through the 90's. It's quite impressive, and something fun to look for in his movies.
Val Kilmer is still widely known to have done the best historically accurate portrayal of Doc Holliday. He is the same height, same build, and even uses phrases used by Doc Holliday. (ex. "I'm your huckleberry" and "You're a daisy if you do").
In the scene when Sam Elliott is shot and staggers into the bar and falls, when they pick him up, they accidentally slam his head into the underside of the bar.
During filming Val Kilmer and Kurt Russell became good friends. One bought a grave slot in the actual Tombstone for the other and the other bought a piece of property in the town for the other. The fun thing is that neither knew that the other had bought them anything until they exchanged "gifts".
Billy Claiborne is played by an actor named Wyatt Earp, who is a distant relative of the real Wyatt Earp.
Every line said at the O.K. Corral shootout was actually said at the actual shootout.
Just before the famous O.K. Corral shootout, Wyatt retrieves his gun from home. The gun shown is a 12-inch barrel Peacemaker, but Wyatt received a custom 10-inch version from the people of Dodge City. The armourer who supplied the guns for the film could not find a 10-inch specimen, and therefore used a 12-inch version. This fact was stated in an issue of Guns and Ammo magazine. Incidentally, the man who plays Texas Jack was the technical consultant on the film.
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