Character mistake: In the courtroom scene set in the 1870s, Morgan Earp responds to a defendant with "Nice and easy my ass." While "ass" was used as slang in the 19th century, the dismissive phrase "my ass" as a sarcastic retort isn't documented until much later, making it sound more like 20th-century speech than something cowboys in a frontier courtroom would say, making this an anachronistic turn of phrase. (01:45:30)
Wyatt Earp (1994)
1 character mistake - chronological order
Directed by: Lawrence Kasdan
Starring: Dennis Quaid, Gene Hackman, Kevin Costner, David Andrews
Genres: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, Romance, Western
Factual error: Throughout the entire film the wrong holsters are used. They are wearing "drop loop" holsters but they weren't invented until the 1930s.
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Suggested correction: The claim that "drop loop" holsters weren't invented until the 1930s is incorrect. The style often called the "Mexican Loop" (or Mexican Drop-Loop) holster was already in use by the mid-1870s to early 1880s, especially in the American Southwest and northern Mexico. These rigs were worn over cartridge belts and featured loops that secure the holster to the belt. https://cochiseleather.com/western-gun-leather-history.aspx.
Nicholas Earp: Remember this, all of you. Nothing counts so much as blood. The rest are just strangers. (00:11:02)