“The Truth About the Meaning of Doc Holliday’s Line I’m Your Huckleberry.” Texas Hill Country, 11 Nov. tombstone is a 1993 american western film directed by george p.
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“I’m Your Huckleberry.” Idioms Online, 2 Feb. This is Part 2 of our series on the look Val Kilmer gave the character Doc Holliday in the legendary film Tombstone: After the Earps come to Tombstone, Val Kilmer’s Doc Holliday accompanies the brothers and their wives to a night of theater. “I like a man that can hold his tongue,” Offitt says, to which Sleeny replies, “Then I’m your huckleberry.”
Cosmatos 25 December 1993 WARNING This Photograph is for. In the book, the character Sam Sleeny utters the phrase when being complimented by another character, John Offitt. RM 2JK8NM0Val Kilmer Film: Tombstone (USA 1983) Characters: Doc Holliday Director: George P. The phrase is used, for example, in the 1883 novel, “The Bread-Winners: A Social Study,” by John Hay. Some sources indicate that “I’m your huckleberry,” in the sense used in the movie, was an idiom in the South in the 1800s and meant, more or less, the right person who was up for whatever job or action was being proposed. A huckle bearer would be the person carrying a coffin, essentially a pallbearer,” the travel website Texas Hill Country reported in 2020.
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“In the South, a huckle was a casket handle. Val Kilmer Autographed Tombstone Doc Holliday 8×10 Photo with Doc Inscription 299.99 Val Kilmer Autographed Batman Forever Movie Artwork 11x14 Photo 349.99 Val Kilmer Autographed Tombstone Doc Holliday 11x14 Scene Photo 399.99 Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Val Kilmer Autographed 1995 Heat 16x24 Framed Movie Poster 3,999. Some believe that if the real Doc Holliday said any such phrase, it would have been “I’m your huckle bearer,” because, they assert, the term “huckle bearer” was at that time the equivalent of “pallbearer,” and Holliday, a famous gunfighter, would have meant it as a threat. Holliday and his companions are famous for their role in the shootout at the O.K. This 8x10 scene photo of Doc Holliday from the movie Tombstone has been personally hand-signed by Val Kilmer during his autograph signing with Celebrity.
It may have been cool before, but things only get cooler after a movie star portraying a quick-drawing, intelligent, articulate, irreverent, hard-drinking, heavy gambling, and yet very sick gun fighter does it on the silver screen. Born John Henry Holliday, he had aristocratic Southern roots and trained as a dentist, making his way out West where he gained a reputation as a gunfighter, gambler, and friend of Wyatt Earp. Holliday in the movie and it has been cool ever since. Kilmer also titled his memoir, you guessed it, “I’m Your Huckleberry.” Why Do Some Think Kilmer, as Doc Holliday, Said ‘Huckle Bearer’?ĭoc Holliday was a real historical figure who lived from 1851 to 1887.
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