one of Eastwood’s best films as both an actor and a director, and there really isn’t another film like it that fully digs into its themes. But there is another Western that is just as fantastic, and it stars another Western movie legend.
If there’s another actor as tied to the Western genre as Eastwood, it’s Kurt Russell, who has starred in a whole bunch of fantastic Westerns over the years. And one of the best of the best is “Tombstone,” which stars Russell as real-life lawman Wyatt Earp. It’s a terrific drama with absolutely stunning cinematography, featuring views of gorgeous Arizona vistas, and it does deal with some of the same difficult life-or-death brutality as “Unforgiven,” even if it’s a bit more of an adventure than Eastwood’s grim classic. After all, “Tombstone” is based on a true story (even if it’s not entirely historically accurate), so it has to reckon with some of the more unpleasant elements of the time period.
