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Title: Well-done epic Western
Review: I cannot attest to the film's complete authenticity, but it starts out telling an often told tale. Young Wyatt Earp tried at least 4 times--beginning at the age of 13--to run away from home and join the Union Army. In the film Gene Hackman, playing his father, stops him and sends him back home. This scene and the one following where Virgil and James Earp return from the War are two of the most compelling in the film.The remainder of the two-disk film closes with Wyatt much older having survived the Western frontier and moving on to Alaska. It's a hopeful ending and a beautifully filmed one, too.The other aspect of this film I liked best was James Newton Howard's soundtrack. The ex-Toto musician can really bring life to a scene and more often than not when I have enjoyed a soundtrack, I've found James Newton Howard was somehow involved in the effort.
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