History Film / MyDarlingClementine

* ClassicallyTrainedExtra: Granville Thorndyke, possibly. His reputation is that of a Shakespearean actor, and he [[SpeaksInShoutOuts never tires of quoting the Bard]] -- but the play he is ''supposed'' to be appearing in is a trashy crime drama set in New York City.

* SecondaryCharacterTitle: The main plot of the film is about the shoot-out and events leading up to it. Clementine is a SatelliteCharacter who does not participate in these events.

* SecondaryCharacterTitle: Clementine is not part of the shoot-out.

* NiceHat:
** Wyatt has a big soft-crowned felt hat that he always makes sure to dent just so -- and he isn't the only one.
** Chihuahua dons an impressively enormous sombrero for one musical number.

* TheDreaded: Judging from everyone's reaction upon meeting him early on (especially the Clanton family when they realize whose brother they just murdered), Wyatt Earp has this reputation from his Dodge City days.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The film diverges frequently from the known facts, particularly concerning the main characters' love lives and the timing and circumstances of various deaths. In particular, the plot is kicked off by the murder of the youngest Earp brother, James. In reality, James was the eldest, was uninvolved in the feud, and long outlived both Virgil and Morgan. (The 1957 film ''Film/GunfightAtTheOKCorral'', though not a remake of ''Clementine'', used James in a similar way.)

* BilingualBonus: Used as a way of GettingCrapPastTheRadar. Early in the film, Virgil spots James with his Celtic cross and cracks to Wyatt, "There goes that chingadera again." "Chingadera" is a Mexican Spanish word that translates out to "fucking thing" or "crap."

* BettyAndVeronica: Clementine and Chihuahua -- except their rivalry is only in Clementine's head. Holliday has definitely chosen Chihuahua.

* SpicyLatina: Of the two major women in the film, Chihuahua is the more glamorous and the more overtly sexual. She is also quite catty toward Clementine, even though she takes their romantic rivalry less seriously than Clementine does.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The film diverges frequently from the known facts, particularly concerning the main characters' love lives and the timing and circumstances of various deaths. In particular, the plot is kicked off by the murder of the youngest Earp brother, James. In reality, James was the eldest, was uninvolved in the feud, and long outlived both Virgil and Morgan. (The 1957 film ''Gunfight at the O.K. Corral'', though not a remake of ''Clementine'', used James in a similar way.)

* DrinkOrder: Of course this is a Western, so everybody drinks whiskey. There's also a scene in which Holliday uses celebratory champagne as the pretense for a display of power: when first meeting Wyatt, he orders "A glass of champagne for the marshal." Wyatt asks for whiskey instead, but Holliday insists on champagne, and the barman complies.

* [[HistoricalDomainCharacter Historical Domain Characters]]: The Earps, the Clantons and Doc Holliday.

* BilingualBonus: See GettingCrapPastTheRadar below.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Early in the film, Virgil spots James with his Celtic cross and cracks to Wyatt, "There goes that chingadera again." "Chingadera" is a Mexican Spanish word that translates out to "fucking thing" or "crap."

* ImportantHaircut: Played with. Wyatt Earp goes from scruffily bearded to neatly mustachioed shortly before he becomes the marshal of Tombstone, but there's no direct connection between these events. However, we don't clearly ''see'' his shaven face until he decides to accept the marshalship. Also of note, Earp's first heroic act occurs ''just'' before he is shaved: he literally already has lather on his face.

* NiceHat: Wyatt has a big soft-crowned felt hat that he always makes sure to dent just so -- and he isn't the only one. On the female side, Chihuahua dons an impressively enormous sombrero for one musical number.

* RealSongThemeTune: As noted in the summary.

* TheAlcoholic: Holliday.

-->--'''Col. Sherman T. Potter''', ''Series/{{MASH}}''

''My Darling Clementine'' is a 1946 [[TheWestern Western]] directed by Creator/JohnFord, and one of many, many film depictions of Wyatt Earp, and the first to be explicitly structured around the shootout at the OK Corral. Creator/HenryFonda stars as Earp, with Victor Mature as Doc Holliday, Linda Darnell as Chihuahua, Walter Brennan as Old Man Clanton, and Cathy Downs as the (historically unattested) title character.

* GrayRainOfDepression: It's pouring rain whe the Earps make it back to their camp and find James dead.

* CaliforniaDoubling: As expected in a John Ford Western, the southern Arizona location is represented by Monument Valley, Utah.