Frontier Marshal 1939 and My Darling Clementine 1946
These movies were written by the same people, have the same characters and plot points. They are practically the same movie.
I prefer Cesar Romero as Doc Halliday in Frontier Marshal over Victor Mature as Dol Holliday in My Darling Clementine. I cannot forgive any actor portraying Doc Holliday without a mustache. But I prefer Henry Fonda as Wyatt Earp over Randolph Scott, though he is very good. I was glad there wasn't a love triangle in Frontier Marshal like there is in My Darling Clementine. The fact that John Carradine is in Frontier Marshal and not in longtime collaborator, John Ford's My Darling Clementine baffles me, he should have been the Shakespeare actor who comes to Tombstone. Frontier Marshal also tells the same story but in a shorter amount of time. Sure My Darling Clementine features the other Earp brothers, sure it has four people going to the O.K. Coral instead of Randolph Scott facing the Clanton gang single handedly but the movie is too long. I've been a big Henry Fonda and John Ford fan for years but if I had to pick a better movie I'm going with Frontier Marshal.
