Heres how it happened. Clanton was played by Victor Jory in Tombstone, the Town Too Tough to Die (1942). Clanton had told others that Doc Holliday, Virgil Earp, Wyatt Earp, and Morgan Earp had all confided in him that they had actually been involved in the Benson stage robbery. Ike Clanton : Listen, Mr. Kansas Law Dog. However the night played out, Ikes threats stand out as a turning point. Morgan and Virgil were also shot, Doc Holliday was grazed by a bullet, and Wyatt came away unharmed. According to Earp, the plan was foiled when the three suspects, Leonard, Head and Crane, were killed in unrelated incidents. 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. I heard of you. 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. When the Earp wagons rolled into Tombstone in December 1879, Wyatt's plan was to start a stage line in the area, and Virgil was ready to pursue his duties as a deputy U.S. marshal. Law don't go around here. Reply . Corral where witnesses overheard them threatening to kill the Earps. He didnt stop at legal activities, however; just about every source agrees that he and his sons rustled and bought rustled stock, participating in the free and easy raiding conducted both by Arizona bands and by Mexican bands criss-crossing the Mexican border, wrote Paula Marks in And Die in the West: The Story of the O.K. Release Dates Clanton also denied ever threatening the Earps. Eventually, Ike paid his $25 fine, had his weapons checked into the Grand Hotel by Virgil, and wandered away to nurse his wounds. After the papers came he gave the horse up without any service of papers and asked me if I had any more horses to lose, Wyatt later claimed. He decided he had to act. Isaac "Ike" Clanton (1847-1887) - A member of the Clanton family in Cochise County, Arizona, he was unarmed when the Earps and Doc Holliday advanced on them at the O.K. Ikes storied career in the west included threatening land owners, smuggling rustled cattle, stuffing ballots, potential assassination attempts, aiding known murderers, and running from a historic gunfight he himself brought to fruition. Corral in the boomtown of Tombstone, Arizona Territory but was unarmed and ran from the gunfight, in which his 19-year-old brother Billy was killed. ["In wine is truth" meaning: "When I'm drinking, I speak my mind"]. What do you think, darling? He is of Hungarian Jewish-German Jewish (father) and Irish-German Catholic (mother) descent. [5]:193 However, the Clantons never registered a brand in either Cochise County or Pima County which was required to legally raise cattle. [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. McCann slapped Clanton, who left and fetched his pistol. He also tried to buy a gun in Spangenbergs before the fight, though the shopkeep read the room wisely and refused to sell Ike a weapon. Johnny Ringo In November 1879, shortly after arriving in Tombstone, Earp had a horse stolen. You retired too? : Tombstone (1993) Full Cast & Crew See agents for this cast & crew on IMDbPro Directed by Writing Credits ( WGA) Kevin Jarre . A restaurant has been opened by Mr. Ike Clanton.. His favorite American West topics include Arizona history, the Apache and Yavapai Wars, and the Transcontinental Railroad. [6] The Mexican government at the time placed high tariffs on goods transported across the border, making smuggling a profitable enterprise.[7][8]. It's located in British Columbia, Canada.This cache is one in the series of "movie title" caches. 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. : Wyatt saw Clanton had no gun and shoved him aside as he coolly told him, The fight has commenced. In August, Old Man Clanton and four other men including Jim Crane, the only living Benson stagecoach suspect were killed by Mexican smugglers in the Guadalupe Canyon Massacre. Yes, but there's just something about him. Ike was the only cowboy to survive, and he was nowhere near the scene when it ended. Clanton repeatedly boasted in public, drank heavily, and had a quick temper. The incidents had generated a lot of talk in town. Maybe poker's just not your game Ike. [3], The Clanton Ranch grew into a successful enterprise. Corral And How It Changed the American West, Tombstone: The Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday, and the Vendetta Ride from Hell, Ride the Devils Herd: Wyatt Earps Epic Battle Against the Wests Biggest Outlaw Gang, And Die in the West: The Story of the O.K. In March 1882, Morgan was shot and killed in Campbell & Hatch Saloon and Billiard Parlor, and the Earp Vendetta Ride was officially on. Clanton also claimed that Doc Holliday and Morgan, Wyatt, and Virgil Earp had separately confessed to him their role in the Benson stage holdup, or else the cover-up of the robbery by allowing the robbers' escape.[4]. John Peters Ringo (May 3, 1850 - July 13, 1882), known as Johnny Ringo, was an American Old West outlaw loosely associated with the Cochise County Cowboys in frontier boomtown Tombstone, Arizona Territory. Though Ike Clanton's hat was found at the scene where the ambushers waited, a number of associates stood up for him, saying that he had been in Contention that night, and the case was dismissed for lack of evidence. The Clantons repeatedly threatened the Earps because they interfered with the Cowboys' illegal activities. The following year, Warren and Morgan Earp arrived, as did Doc Holliday. Directors George P. Cosmatos Kevin Jarre (Charlton Heston scenes) Writer Kevin Jarre Stars Kurt Russell Val Kilmer Sam Elliott See production, box office & company info Watch on Tubi Go to tubitv.com 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. 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. Public sentiment of the fight was relatively split: some folks thought the cowboys were murdered outright, especially when two of them (Tom and Ike) were allegedly not armed. Miles Quaritch from the fantasy Avatar, Ike Clanton in the western Tombstone and Harry Black in the drama Last Exit to Brooklyn. He was arrested and charged with murder. Wyatt, please, I Wyatt Earp : Clanton testified that Earp had threatened to kill his confederates because he feared they would reveal his part in the robbery. Clanton filed murder charges against the Earps and Holliday but after a 30-day preliminary hearing, Justice Wells Spicer ruled that the lawmen had acted within their lawful duty. Clanton also said Holliday had confessed to him about killing the stage driver. By September 1874, Old Man Clanton had a nice thing going on the Gila. Another fun fact, Ike Clanton in tombstone is played by Stephen Lang, the antagonist militant leader in James Cameron's Avatar. 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. Tombstone City Marshal Virgil Earp intervened and threatened to arrest both Holliday and Clanton if they did not stop arguing, and Holliday went home. Before the fall, Brighton fired a second shot which passed through the cantle of the saddle and grazed Ike's right leg. A few days later Wyatt gathered a larger posse and set out on a vendetta, determined to mete out justice that had evaded him. [4], Later in the morning, Clanton picked up his rifle and single-action revolver from the West End Corral, where he had stabled his wagon and team and deposited his weapons after entering town. He's mine, understand? [28], A conflicting source stated that his body was left where it fell for several days until nearby Mormon ranchers buried him in an unmarked grave in the Mormon cemetery southeast of Eagar, Arizona on what is today called "The 26 Bar Ranch". [27], In April, 1887, Phin Clanton was arrested for rustling and jailed in St. Unsurprisingly, the poll results for the precinct were largely in favor of Shibell, who was aligned with ranchers of the area. And if the Earps were armed, he couldve thought it was a fools errand to stay in the fight if he wasnt heeled.. According to The Last Gunfight, over the course of his drunken bender, Ike made these alleged threats to the Earps and Doc Holliday: The bar scene in Tombstone was no stranger to Ikes drunken threats, but on the morning of October 26, he was spotted armed, drunk and rambling by Ned Boyle, a barkeep at the Oriental. Some thirty seconds after the fight started, it was over. On October 26, 1881, Clanton was present at the Gunfight at the O.K. After the meal, Ike, Renfro, and Ellinger went into a cabin on the Clanton ranch when for unknown reasons Renfro shot and killed Ellinger. Around three in the afternoon, Wyatt, Virgil, Morgan and Doc Holliday began their walk down to the lot, past Johnny Behan, who falsely claimed to have already disarmed the cowboys. | : [27] During May and June 1887, several grand jury indictments were brought against the Clantons and their friends. Winner to the King, five hundred dollars. In films, he played Maj. Gen. George E. Pickett in Gettysburg (1993) and the lead role of Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson in the Gettysburg prequel Gods and Generals (2003), both from director Ronald F. Maxwell. 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. Ike reeled in his saddle and fell on the right side of his horse, his rifle falling on the left. These and other inconsistencies in Clanton's testimony lacked credibility. (1958) Matt Sloane is sent from Texas to Arizona to tame Tombstone where a gang of outlaws deals with cattle and silver. Tombstone (1993) - Stephen Lang as Ike Clanton - IMDb Tombstone (1993) Stephen Lang: Ike Clanton Showing all 9 items Jump to: Photos (3) Quotes (6) Photos Quotes Curly Bill : [takes a bill with Wyatt's signature from a customer and throws it on the faro table] Wyatt Earp, huh? Doc Holliday No. And you must be Doc Holliday. The group soon congregated near the O.K. They hit up Spangenbergs, an ammuniton store, and loaded up their gun belts as the town, including Wyatt, looked on. By 1885, each had a 160-acre ranch 10 miles east of Springerville near the New Mexico border. Joseph Isaac Clanton (1847 June 1, 1887) was a member of a loose association of outlaws known as The Cowboys who clashed with lawmen Wyatt, Virgil and Morgan Earp as well as Doc Holliday. When Brighton and Miller walked up to where Ike lay they found he was dead. : [terrified, pleading] 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? Let's have a spelling contest! As Wyatt recounted in the San Francisco Examiner in 1896: The moment the first shots were fired and Philpott fell, the horses plunged ahead so viciously that nothing could have stopped them. Several days after his release, he filed first-degree murder charges against Virgil, Wyatt, Morgan and Doc, and a hearing under judge Wells Spicer began on Monday, October 31. Evidently Mr. Ringo's an educated man. Within days, Wyatt would kill Frank Stilwell and Curly Bill, though Ike escaped his vengeful grasp. : The Clantons eventually settled in Santa Barbara County, near Port Hueneme, and lived on what they believed to be public land, but which in fact belonged to wealthy, influential folks like Thomas A. Scott, a railroad baron who had been elected U.S. Assistant Secretary of War by Lincoln before the Civil War. Released in 1993. Tombstone Marshal Fred White They moved their operations to a ranch they named the Cienega Amarilla, near Springerville, Arizona. Just at this time, Mr. Miller stepped to the door, to be ready to render any assistance needed, and when Ike saw him he wheeled his horse and attempted to get under cover of the thick cover which grows close to Wilson's home, at the same time pulling his Winchester from its scabbard. With Old Man Clanton in the grave, Ike was finally free to act however he pleased without worrying about how his father might respond afterward, wrote Jeff Guinn in The Last Gunfight. 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. 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. Tell all the other curs the law's comin'! The outlaw Cowboys in Cochise County were not organized, and their acts of violence, rustling or robbery were usually committed by independent groups of Cowboys. [27], On December 25, 1886Christmas DayEvans, wanting to see if a bullet would go through a Mormon, shot and killed Jim Hale in cold blood. : Later that month, the cowboys took frontier justice into their own hands with the attempted assassination of Virgil Earp on December 28, 1881. 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 gunfight, so the need for weapons outside of town was well established and accepted.[15]. Then, with James Earp and his wife Bessie, the group headed to Tombstone in December of that year. [13] Clanton was fined $25 plus court costs and after paying the fine left unarmed. On Saturday, March 18, 1882, Morgan Earp was killed by a shot through a door window facing a dark alley while playing billiards at Hatch's Saloon in Tombstone. [4], At about dawn on October 26, the card game broke up and Behan and Virgil Earp went home to bed. Lunger. Take a good look at him, Ike 'cause that's how you're gonna end up! [1] 'Doc': Dirigido por Frank Perry. Kate This permitted a traveler to keep his firearms if he was proceeding directly to a livery, hotel or saloon. [22] He had previously deputized Morgan and Wyatt and also deputized Doc Holliday that morning. 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. Judge Spicer exonerated the lawmen. Wyatt Earp ["Do what you do" meaning: "Do what you do best"]. Ike Clantons testimony and the diverging stories he included eventually swung the verdict toward the Earp side, and on November 30, Spicer reported that he cannot resist the conclusion that the defendants were fully justified in committing these homicides, according to The Last Gunfight. Wyatt Earp Clanton testified that he picked up the weapons from William Soule, the jailer, a couple of days later. His brother Ike? [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. | [31] Clanton was portrayed by Grant Withers in the John Ford classic My Darling Clementine (1946). Jeff Fahey played Clanton in the movie Wyatt Earp (1994),[40] starring Kevin Costner as Wyatt Earp. woman with scar on her face in tombstonemi compromiso contigo amor Wyatt spoke of his brothers Virgil and Morgan as the "marshals" while he acted as "deputy.". Stephen was born in New York City, New York, to Theresa (Volmer) and Eugene Lang, a prominent businessperson and philanthropist. Angrily, Frank said he would not drink, and he and Billy left the saloon immediately to seek Tom. He is best known for being a member of group of outlaw Cowboys that had ongoing conflicts with lawmen Wyatt, Virgil and Morgan Earp. Credat Judaeus apella, non ego. When the dust settled on the most infamous gunfight in the West, three men lay dying in the streets of Tombstone, including 19-year-old Billy Clanton. Clanton was implicated in the attempted assassination of Virgil Earp on December 30, 1881 but other Cowboys provided an alibi and he was released. Wyatt shot and killed Frank Stilwell, who was lying in wait at the Tucson, Arizona rail yard. Cast . (written by) Cast (in credits order) verified as complete Produced by Music by Bruce Broughton Cinematography by William A. Fraker . Its not hard to see why history paints Ikes character so poorly. Should I hate him? 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]. McCann did the same and the two met on the street in front of the Wells Fargo office. : [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. 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. 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. Curly Bill Related read: 29 Most Iconic Quotes from Tombstone. : Corral. He has gained world recognition after the roles of Col. He thought catching the March 15, 1881 robbers of the Benson Stage (in which the driver and a passenger were killed) would help him win the sheriff's office. Cambridge Dictionary defines a coward as a person who is not brave and is too eager to avoid danger, difficulty, or pain, and in this scenario its not a stretch to say Ikes actions were cowardly. Clanton has been portrayed in a number of films and television series since the 1940s, many of which were highly fictionalized. Corral. Where's Wyatt? [32] Lyle Bettger portrayed Clanton as a brutal thug in John Sturges' film Gunfight at the O.K. That's the rumor. [4], At around 1:302:00 pm, after Tom McLaury had been pistol-whipped by Wyatt, Clanton's 19-year-old younger brother Billy Clanton and Tom's older brother Frank McLaury arrived in town. Johnny Ringo : In vino veritas. [23] By the time Clanton finished his testimony, the entire prosecution case had become suspect. A successful lawman's plans to retire anonymously in Tombstone, Arizona are disrupted by the kind of outlaws he was famous for eliminating. Frank Stillwell 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. In the film, Clanton is portrayed as being second-in-command of the Clanton Gang. He gave the shotgun to Doc Holliday who hid it under his overcoat. "OLD MAN" CLANTON . Wyatt Earp Billy and Frank stopped first at the Grand Hotel on Allen Street, and were greeted by Doc Holliday. Now I really hate him. Why Ike, whatever do you mean? 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. Disarming him, the Earps took Clanton to appear before Judge Wallace for violating the city's ordinance #9 against carrying firearms in the city. Clanton said he feared that Wyatt wanted to kill him because he knew of Wyatt's role. [35] Clanton appears in the Doctor Who story "The Gunfighters" (1966), played by William Hurndell, which is largely based on the Sturges film. 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 . Wyatt Earp The Cowboys supported incumbent Sheriff Charles Shibell while the Earps supported his opponent Bob Paul in the November 1880 election.