Gunfight at the OK Corral NC

Doc Holliday of Gunfight at the OK Corral serves not as another alpha male sidekick but as the other, albeit a major player. Earp is a marshal, representing good, while Holliday, a gambler, represents the lower way of life of the West. Alpha male cowboys are not known to be gamblers, but servers of justice. Gambling represents chaos and chance, and Holliday is nowhere near as solid as Earp from a point of goodness, but although Earp can be viewed as having a dark view of justice (handling the guard to save Holliday's life), he has good intentions at heart. Holliday has loyalty to Earp, but his end goal is not one of justice but one of worldly merit (gambling).

Earp pursues Laura Denbow, a female gambler. Though Earp represents justice, his friendship with Doc and attraction to Laura suggest that though he believes in the higher cause of justice, the practice of gambling does not dissuade him from other townsfolk. He does not belong to the law or a separate code, but rather has his own views, essential to the alpha male. Doc's good shooting skill saves them in the mountains, and though from a Western action standpoint, the alpha male is the best with a gun, Doc is not compared to be better or worse. The Earps hold their own during the last fight, but Doc's shooting skills show that he can fight with the best, as good as an alpha male, but the alpha male is about more than shooting skill.

The big difference as found in the film is that Doc is a survivor, as all men in the West are. But the alpha male as seen in this and other films is not only an excellent survivor but practices his personal code in all acts of life. Doc needed to be rescued early in the film, and in Western films this almost never happens. The alpha male is not shown to be beyond death but never helpless, even in testing his mortality. Doc, though a great addition to the film and a strong character in the role of the other, is not an alpha male