O. K.! GUNFIGHT AT THE CORRAL!

GUNFIGHT AT THE O. K. CORRAL (1957)
dir: John Sturges

O.K.! GUNFIGHT AT THE CORRAL!
Mad #36, December 1957
a: George Woodbridge

Doc Holliday isn't actually a doctor of any kind.

Outlaws come to town looking to avenge the death of their brother at the hands of Doc Holiday (Kirk Douglas) and he's warned by his girlfriend Kate (Jo Van Fleet) not to go down and respond. Marshal Wyatt Earp (Burt Lancaster) is after others like Johnny Ringo (John Ireland) and info about the people after Doc for the criminals he's after, but Doc wants nothing to do with him. Later, when Doc Holiday is arrested by the Marshal for killing his would-be assassins and cuffed to his bed, he is set free again when a lynch mob is after him, but told to leave town.

Doc is still found to be in town the next day, and tells Wyatt he can't leave because he has no money. Wyatt Earp allows him to stay on the condition he doesn't fight. Doc helps Wyatt Earp when outlaws crash a local dance and is later deputized when Earp has nobody left. The civil war uniform is a reference to Kirk Douglas' role in The Indian Fighter, there is a plot they don't use in this parody where a woman is arrested for gambling. Wyatt Earp now teams up with brothers in other cities and with their new alliance with Doc Holliday to fight with the Clanton family for cattle thievin'

Shane and Hondo (John Wayne) were characters from other westerns. The portrait of Van Gogh is a reference to how Kirk Douglas played him the previous year in Lust for Life.

A. P. B. ON THE M.O. AT THE O. K. CORRAL
Humbug #3, October 1957
w: Harvey Kurtzman
a: Jack Davis