Kirk Dogulas goes on to make clear that whereas he and Burt Lancaster had labored collectively on “I Stroll Alone” a decade prior, it was on the Paramount Ranch units of “Gunfight on the O.Ok. Corral” that they grew nearer as associates:

“After the day’s taking pictures in Tucson, and dinner on the resort, we might simply sit round and speak for hours. Nearly each night time, we talked for hours. Typically it might be one-thirty or two within the morning earlier than we mentioned, ‘Hey, we would higher go to mattress. We have to rise up and shoot tomorrow.'”

All of it felt a bit cliquish to Hal Wallis, who Douglas remembers as “a reasonably taciturn, lonely fellow” who would ask what their night chats had been all about. The query confused Douglas, who noticed limitless dialog as a byproduct of a strong friendship reasonably than some nice thriller. For Douglas, the camaraderie along with his co-star correlates with the factor that drew him to the story within the first place. “The success of ‘Gunfight on the O.Ok. Corral,'” he observes, “actually trusted the love between the 2 males, which has been an important theme in lots of films –- starring Spencer Tracy and Clark Gable, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, Robert Redford and Paul Newman.”

For these two males, every with their very own figuring out star persona, their uncomplicated offscreen rapport married simply to Lancaster’s towering older-sibling charisma and Douglas’ stiff-jawed stoicism delivered to their respective roles. The ensuing alliance seen in John Sturges’ function stands in distinction to considered one of Wyatt Earp’s maxims, uttered to a baby-faced gunslinger (performed by a baby-faced Dennis Hopper), that “all gunfighters are lonely.” By the point of his demise in 2020, Douglas had 40 years and 7 movies’ price of friendship with Lancaster.