After the confrontation with Clanton, Wyatt Earp took Holliday back to his boarding house at Camillus Sidney "Buck" Fly's Lodging House to sleep off his drinking, then went home and to bed. Having successfully built a career as a lawman in the Old West, Wyatt Earp arrives in the town of Tombstone to enjoy a much-deserved retirement with his two brothers, Virgil . Based on the real life tales of Wyatt Earp, his brothers, and Doc Watson, "Tombstone" is a Western film on DVD, starring Kurt Russell as Wyatt Earp. director of photography (as Charles B. Lang Jr.) Film Editing by Warren Low . : By 1881, however, he was working on his father's ranch at Lewis Springs, about 12 miles (19km) west of Tombstone and 5 miles (8.0km) from Charleston.[1]. The gunfight at the OK Corral lasted less than a minuteyet it became the basis for countles [36] He was later replaced in the role by Rayford Barnes. He was a child actor, starting at age 11 in "It Happened at the World's Fair." Was also in Disney roles. : Depending on the account, Ike either turned to flee, reached for his rifle, or both, but in any case, Brighton shot him when he refused to surrender. At that time, Newman Clanton was living with his sons Phin (or "Fin"), Ike, and Billy. More than a year later, probably sometime in December 1880, Earp was told the horse was being used near Charleston, and Wyatt and Holliday were forced to ride to the Clanton's ranch near Charleston to await ownership papers in order to legally recover it. : [gives a Cheshire cat smile] Released in 1993. In late 1882, Ike and his brother Phin moved their operations north of Springerville, in Apache County, far from their troubles in Tombstone. He took Holliday's walking-stick in return. Clanton was later accused, along with his brother, Phin Clanton, and friend Pony Diehl, of attempting to kill Virgil Earp on December 30, 1881, a shooting which left Virgil with a crippled left arm. Joseph Isaac (Ike) Clanton (1847 - June 1, 1887) was born in Callaway County, Missouri. [terrified, pleading] ["In wine is truth" meaning: "When I'm drinking, I speak my mind"]. The story of the Earps and the cowboys of Cochise County may be a gray area of Arizonas past, but Ike Clantons actions clearly paint a less-than-courageous picture before, during and after the infamous gunfight at the O.K. Now I really hate him. Corral gunfight, so the need for weapons outside of town was well established and accepted.[15]. [22] Wyatt never located Clanton, although they killed three other outlaw Cowboys, and the Earps and Holliday left the Arizona Territory in late April, 1882. Ike stayed with the family when they moved to Tombstone, Arizona Territory, around 1877 (before Tombstone became a town or even a mining center). Johnny Ringo Yeah, that's good, Mr. Law Dog, 'cause law just don't go around here. : Ike approached him [Wyatt] in the street and asked to talk. Ike was unarmed as he should have been, due to Tombstones in-town firearm policy so he technically wasnt doing anything illegal. More at IMDbPro Contact info Not in any language. Whats not up for debate, however, is the fact that Ike Clanton, who had been buffaloed and disarmed hours earlier, did not have a weapon. Spicer noted that Clanton had claimed the Earps were out to murder him, yet on both occasions that day the Earps had not killed him, and allowed him to escape unchallenged during the fight. On the morning of the shooting Virgil Earp had arrested him for carrying a revolver. Isaac Ike Clanton was a member of the Cowboy faction in Tombstone and an enemy of the Earp brothers and Doc Holliday. When not reading or writing about history, he enjoys traveling and exploring the outdoors at Territory Supply. Clanton repeatedly boasted in public, drank heavily, and had a quick temper. Some thirty seconds after the fight started, it was over. Some will pertain to the Kootenay area, some not. | Doc Holliday The indictments included charges of cattle-rustling and murder for the death of Isaac Ellinger. Tombstone (1993) Full Cast & Crew See agents for this cast & crew on IMDbPro Directed by Writing Credits ( WGA) Kevin Jarre . Ike was the only cowboy to survive, and he was nowhere near the scene when it ended. One talented actor that was supposed to have a huge role in Tombstone was Robert Mitchum, who is best known for his role in thriller Cape Fear. Product Information. Clantonville never really took off, and by 1878 a year after Ed Schieffelin filed for his Tombstone claim the Clantons were down in the San Pedro Valley, ready to capitalize on a potential southern Arizona silver boom. Doc Holliday Doc Holliday : [4], Clanton backed up Cochise County Sheriff Johnny Behan's testimony that Holliday and Morgan Earp had fired the first two shots and that the next several shots also came from the Earp party. Clanton also denied ever threatening the Earps. Corral during a trial scene in Muskogee Little Theatre's production . Clanton died before he hit the dirt.[27][28]. [4] Not having rented a room, McLaury and Clanton had no place to go. : McCann did the same and the two met on the street in front of the Wells Fargo office. Ike Clanton was one of the more prominent cowboys, along with Johnny Ringo, Curly Bill, Joe Hill and Bob Martin, and plenty of firsthand accounts from Tombstone townies testify to his uncanny and often drunken gift of threatening gab. [citation needed]. A local journalist provided the forty-year-old Cowboys most fitting epitaph: Thus ended the wild career of poor, deluded, misguided Ike Clanton,' John Boessenecker wrote in Ride the Devils Herd. In this 1993 film, he's the main Tombstone character. I'm retired. The usual verdict: Ike was all bark and no bite. Spicer wrote, "the great fact, most prominent in the matter, to wit, that Isaac Clanton was not injured at all, and could have been killed first and easiest."[24]. ["Events are the teachers of fools" meaning: "Fools have to learn by experience"]. A few days later Wyatt gathered a larger posse and set out on a vendetta, determined to mete out justice that had evaded him. [3], The Clanton Ranch grew into a successful enterprise. Morgan Earp soon joined the fracas, and Virgil eventually separated the men to cool things down. A restaurant has been opened by Mr. Ike Clanton.. [35] Clanton appears in the Doctor Who story "The Gunfighters" (1966), played by William Hurndell, which is largely based on the Sturges film. But the Clantons were greenhorns in this part of the country, and Ike learned the hard way how the law of the land worked in the Golden State. : Ike Clanton That all sounded good on paper, and Ike Clanton agreed to turn on his fellow cowboys, but the plan soon fell apart when it was discovered that Leonard and Head had already been killed by rustlers in the Animas Valley of New Mexico. That's how Joseph Isaac "Ike" Clanton managed to get through at least part of the O.K. [30] Since their discovery, Terry has unsuccessfully tried to interest Tombstone city officials in exhuming the remains and re-interring them in Tombstone's famous Boot Hill graveyard.[30]. This is why the cowboys couldnt have nice things. Ike Clanton : Listen, Mr. Kansas Law Dog. Opening narration "In the early eighteen-eighties, when all law enforcement failed in Arizona Territory, cattle rustling, robbery and murder began a notorious reign.As law agencies became disorganized, crime organized and grew powerful under the leadership of three of the West's most vicious outlaws Johnny Ringo, Ike Clanton and Curly Bill Brocious. [27] On November 6, 1885, local rancher Isaac Ellinger and Pratt Plummer had dinner with the Clanton brothers and Lee Renfro. Tombstone City Marshal Virgil Earp intervened and threatened to arrest both Holliday and Clanton if they did not stop arguing, and Holliday went home. He is of Hungarian Jewish-German Jewish (father) and Irish-German Catholic (mother) descent. ["Do what you do" meaning: "Do what you do best"]. Lack of evidence or falsified alibis in nearly every instance helped them avoid jail time, but in November 1886, a well-known rancher from New Mexico was killed by cowboy Lee Renfro on the Clanton ranch. These and other inconsistencies in Clanton's testimony lacked credibility. Will update later. If Ike wasnt involved, he likely played an indirect role in the attempt, and if he was one of the would-be assassins, it further strengthened his gutless reputation. Tombstone Marshal Virgil Earp played cards with Clanton, Tom McLaury, Cochise County Sheriff Johnny Behan and a fifth man (unknown to Clanton and to history), until morning. director of photography Film Editing by Casting By Lora Kennedy Production Design by Go to fighting or get away. Ike Clanton took flight, racing through the Fly house, into a vacant lot, through Kelloggs saloon, and finished his sprint two blocks away on Toughnut Street, where he was later arrested.. Joseph Isaac. Take a good look at him, Ike 'cause that's how you're gonna end up! Clanton said he feared that Wyatt wanted to kill him because he knew of Wyatt's role. Old Man Clanton was most definitely "The founder of the feast" (great line) The life and times of. After the Gunfight at the OK Corral, the Clantons bought land near a ranch owned by their sister Mary. Corral. The Arizona Weekly Citizen reported on the early success of his digs, where the fam irrigated and planted 120 acres with wheat, corn, barley and all kinds of vegetables, with hundreds of acres awaiting future crops. They also hired Jonas "Jake" V. Brighton as a secret service officer. Johnny Ringo Ike Clanton He decided he had to act. Corral. Come on boys. In the 1946 classic 'My Darling Clementine', Clanton was portrayed by Grant Withers. : It says United States Marshal! He was arrested and charged with murder. To avoid alarming Tombstone's public, Virgil returned to Hafford's Saloon carrying the shotgun under his long overcoat. Tombstone (1993) - Michael Biehn as Johnny Ringo - IMDb All Tombstone (1993) Michael Biehn: Johnny Ringo Showing all 19 items Jump to: Photos (8) Quotes (11) Photos Quotes Curly Bill : [takes a bill with Wyatt's signature from a customer and throws it on the faro table] Wyatt Earp, huh? : According to Earp, the plan was foiled when the three suspects, Leonard, Head and Crane, were killed in unrelated incidents. His big mouth and. And had Ike not been buffaloed earlier in the day, he wouldve likely been armed and ready. Company Credits In fact, throughout his life, Ike Clanton routinely came around with that BS and on more than one occasion got called out for it. Then, with James Earp and his wife Bessie, the group headed to Tombstone in December of that year. This question is actually fundamental to the Earp myth. Wyatt spoke of his brothers Virgil and Morgan as the "marshals" while he acted as "deputy.". : The morning of the gunfight Ike, drunk and angry, went around, saying he was going to kill the Earps. Credat Judaeus apella, non ego. Savvy? With the deal dissolved, Ike Clanton faced a new problem: if word got out that he colluded with Wyatt Earp to turn in other outlaws, however that deal ended, his reputation and his life was in danger. Curly Bill The lot was six lots removed from the rear entrance to the O.K. He testified that the Clantons and Frank McLaury raised their hands after Virgil's command, and Tom thrust open his vest to show he was unarmed. Ned was alarmed to see that Ike was not only drunk, but also armed with a pistol in sight, which probably meant that the gun was jammed into the waistband of Ikes pants, wrote Guinn in The Last Gunfight. It's a Micro size geocache, with difficulty of 1.5, terrain of 1.5. Right behind you, Stillwell. Immediately after the fight, Ike Clanton was kept in the Tombstone jail as rumors swirled that hed be lynched by the towns growing vigilante mob, townsfolk who tired of dealing with the cowboys and their violence. Wyatt Earp, huh? A line originally written for Old Man Clanton in the movie "Tombstone", but delivered by Powers Booth who played Curly Bill Brocius, after Old Man Clanton's character was cut from the 1993 fictional movie. Corral Gunfight. They arrived from Antelope Springs, 13 miles (21km) east of Tombstone, where they had been rounding up livestock with their brothers and had breakfasted with Clanton and Tom McLaury the day before. : They had heard from their neighbor, Ed Frink, that Clanton had been stirring up trouble in town overnight, and they had ridden into town on horseback to back up their brothers. Tombstone (1993) Full Cast & Crew See agents for this cast & crew on IMDbPro Directed by Writing Credits ( WGA) Kevin Jarre . Wyatt Earp Doc Holliday, the cold-blooded sharp-shooter, reunites with his old friend, Marshall Wyatt Earp, to take down the Clanton gang in the dusty town of Tombstone, in Arizona. They were a rip-roarin, fun-lovin bunch of boys when they had money to spend, and most of the saloonkeepers wanted the cowboys to spend it at their bars, even if they paid with Mexican pesos and dirty money, wrote Casey Tefertiller in Wyatt Earp: The Life Behind the Legend. : Joseph Isaac Clanton was born in Missouri in 1847, to Mariah Kelso and Newman Old Man Clanton, who we can only assume looked like an old grizzled cattle baron from birth. Corral. The feud escalated, and on October 26, 1881, it finally exploded into violence in a gunfight at the OK Corral in Tombstone. Maybe poker's just not your game Ike. "[12]:6668:164 Clanton ran through the front door of Fly's boarding house and escaped, unwounded. Accounts of the gunfight vary, but its believed Wyatt and Billy Clanton shot first and at the same time; the Earps later claimed they heard several guns being cocked right before the fight started. He said the Benson stage robbery was concocted by the Earps and Holliday to cover up money they had "piped off" to pay bribes. You retired too? You could also say he was all hat and no cattle, except the Clantons did have cattle, and theres a chance it was rustled from Mexico. It's located in British Columbia, Canada.This cache is one in the series of "movie title" caches. During the course of this rather intense standoff, Ike Clanton, then employed as a day laborer, made the mistake of threatening the life of surveyor Johnny Stow. Which is where Ike and his crew got into trouble with the Earps and Doc Holliday or the other way around, depending on who you asked. [27], In late June 1996 a Clanton family descendant, Terry "Ike" Clanton, along with former Citadel professor and grave expert James A. Browning, searched the area near Eagle Creek in what is now Greenlee County, Arizona, where Ike was reportedly buried. Related read: 10 Famous Guns of the Old West, from Revolvers to Rifles. Tombstone (1993) - Ike Clanton MOV Clips 32.4K subscribers Subscribe 453 Share 58K views 2 years ago Directed by George P. Cosmatos, written by Kevin Jarre. Related read: The Invisibly Adventurous Life of Josephine Marcus Earp. Related read: The Wives of Wyatt Earp, from Aurilla Sutherland to Sadie Marcus. A reporter who corresponded with Brighton in late June 1887 relayed Brighton's story about the arrest and shooting: The next morning, while they were at breakfast, Ike Clanton came riding up to the front door. Johnny Ringo The movie title series list will include "Mountie" movies . Earp later said that on June 2, 1881 he offered the Wells, Fargo & Co. reward money and more to Clanton if he would provide information leading to the capture or death of the stage robbers. Unsurprisingly, the poll results for the precinct were largely in favor of Shibell, who was aligned with ranchers of the area. Should I hate him? Christensen was born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona, and now lives with his wife and kids in Massachusetts. Winner to the King, five hundred dollars. Ike spent the next few months accusing Wyatt of telling others about their deal, perhaps not understanding that Wyatt didnt really want the arrangement publicized either. Ike Clanton Tombstone has become one of the most popular Westerns of the modern era. Trivia He's mine, understand? Stephen was born in New York City, New York, to Theresa (Volmer) and Eugene Lang, a prominent businessperson and philanthropist. "Tombstone, Arizona - Historical Accounts", "Testimony of Ike Clanton in the Preliminary Hearing in the Earp-Holliday Case", "Testimony of E. F. Boyle in the Preliminary Hearing in the Earp-Holliday Case", "Testimony of Martha King in the Preliminary Hearing in the Earp-Holliday Case", "Testimony of Wyatt S. Earp in the Preliminary Hearing in the Earp-Holliday Case", "Testimony of Virgil Earp in the Preliminary Hearing in the Earp Case", "WGBH American Experience: Wyatt Earp, Complete Program Transcript", "Outlaw Newman Haynes Clanton or Old Man Clanton", "Decision of Judge Wells Spicer after the Preliminary Hearing in the Earp-Holliday Case", "Gunfight at the O.K. By 1881 he was working on his father's ranch at Lewis Springs, about 12 miles west of . The Clantons and their ranch hands and associates were known as the "Cowboys", and they had a reputation for reckless behavior. Next time it wont be your horse well get, Billy Clanton called after Wyatt in highly colored allusion; itll be you.'. Clanton turned his horse to run and drew his rifle from his scabbard. [5]:193 The Clantons were reputed to be among a group of outlaw Cowboys who crossed the border into Mexico where they stole cattle and re-sold them to the hungry miners in Cochise County. 3. : Ike Clanton Behan stated he immediately went to locate the Cowboys. So he threw himself at Wyatts mercy, affirming that fight was actually not his racket. After disarming Billy Clanton, Wyatt says hell throw his guns on the other side of the bridge, prompting a threat that wouldnt seem out of place from the Clantons. A long string of events led to the gunfight at the O.K. Clanton said Wyatt shoved his revolver in his belly, telling him, "You son-of-a-bitch, you can have a fight!". : In March 1882, Morgan was shot and killed in Campbell & Hatch Saloon and Billiard Parlor, and the Earp Vendetta Ride was officially on. What's wrong with him? Another fun fact, Ike Clanton in tombstone is played by Stephen Lang, the antagonist militant leader in James Cameron's Avatar. The Clantons repeatedly threatened the Earps because they interfered with the Cowboys' illegal activities. He was holed up a few blocks away, in a law office on Toughnut street. Tom and Frank McLaury and Billy Clanton were killed. [27] During May and June 1887, several grand jury indictments were brought against the Clantons and their friends. Six years later Clanton was killed attempting to flee when he was shot by a lawman seeking to arrest him for cattle-rustling. Virgil Earp told Clanton he would leave Clanton's confiscated rifle and revolver at the Grand Hotel which was favored by Cowboys when in town. While there may be some truth to those statements, it doesnt change the fact that Ike Clanton often acted on less-than-heroic principles.