Henry Fonda is one of the few actors to portray Wyatt Earp in two films—more or less. The first: My Darling Clementine in 1946. The second is 1959’s Warlock, where all the names (and plot) are changed to protect the innocent.
Fonda plays Clay Blaisedell, a hired gun/lawman brought in to shape things up in Warlock, a small mining town. His buddy Tom Morgan (An

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