“Hurts, Don’t It?”: Kurt Russell’s First Tombstone Scene Is Still One Of The Western Genre’s Best Character Introductions 21 Years Later

Kurt Russell’s introduction as Wyatt Earp in Tombstone is just about perfect. Despite having relatively few Western credits to his name, what Russell lacks in quantity, he more than makes up for in quality. He’s part of the titular Hateful Eight in the bleak Quentin Tarantino film of the same name, and that same year saw Russell fronting cult classic Bone Tomahawk. However, Tombstone is easily the best Kurt Russell Western and might just be one of the best Westerns of the last 30 years, period.