Wyatt Earp (2026)

Tim Llewellyn plays Wyatt Earp, a lawman determined to be judge, jury and executioner when the moment calls for it.

He rides into the ghost town of Dead River and decides to buy the place, though he certainly doesn’t get a warm welcome.

Then he recruits a homeless cowboy to be his temporary deputy and wipes out the Harlan Ridge gang with his new friend’s help.

But his real mission in Dead River is to learn the identity of the men running guns through the area.

And to do that, he might need to make a deal with another outlaw, a man named Cain Braddock.

Braddock wants a train ticket to California in return for the information.

Wyatt’s inclined to agree, until he learns Braddock has gunned down one of his allies.

Tim Llewellyn as Wyatt Earp, assuring the saloon owner he means no harm to Dead River in Wyatt Earp (2026)

Lee Pena as Jack Johnson, officially becoming Wyatt Earp’s deputy in Wyatt Earp (2026)

Review:

“I’m not followin’,” Cain Braddock says to Wyatt Earp at one point late in this film.

Join the club, Cain, ’cause I ain’t followin’ why Wyatt is in Dead River, why the lady saloon owner is so pissed off that he’s in Dead River, why a homeless man has to sleep in a jail cell when there are oodles of vacant structures in this ghost town and … well, I could go on and on.

Here’s the good news. If you suffered through Brent Bentman’s three-film “Doc Holliday” series, this is on a whole different level. And in a good way.

The cinematography is sharp, the script has it moments, and Tim Llewellyn provides an interesting interpretation of Wyatt Earp as a man who’s gotten past any guilt related to the need to kill.

Would I recommend the film? Nope. But you won’t hate yourself if you spend a little over an hour ridin’ down this Old West trail.

Wes Gillum as Cain Braddock, pulling a gun on Gideon in Wyatt Earp (2026)

Andy Anderson as Harlan Ridge, the outlaw with the ghost town under his thumb in Wyatt Earp (2026)

Directed by:
Brent Bentman

Cast:
Tim Llewellyn … Wyatt Earp
Wes Gillum … Cain Braddock
Richard Nash … Gideon
Eric H. Heisner … Nash
Andy Andersen … Harlan Ridge
Bob Stewart … Virgil
Lee Pena … Jack Johnson
Tiffany McDonald … Georgia
Laynee Busse … Mary Lou Planter

Runtime: 73 min.

Laynee Busse as Mary Lou Planter, saloon owner in Dead River in Wyatt Earp (2026)

Richard Nash as Gideon, the man Wyatt dispatches to find Cain Braddock in Wyatt Earp (2026)

Memorable lines:

Wyatt Earp: “You think I’m the kind that brings it? Trouble?”
Saloon owner Mary Lou Planter: “I think folks wearin’ that much dust are either runnin’ from something or runnin’ toward it.”

Mary Lou Planter: “New faces make this place twitchy. And twitchy towns gets people killed.”

Wyatt Earp to Mary Lou Planter: “Behind every angry woman, there’s an evil man that comes around from time to time. So, what’s his name?”

Wyatt Earp of his colleague Gideon: “He’s the kind of man you call when you wanna run trouble up a tree.”

Mary Lou Planter: “I want your word that no one else dies.”
Wyatt Earp: “You mean ever? Or just today?”

Cain Braddock: “Damn ghost town. Kinda gives you the creeps now and then.”

Tiffany McDonald as Georgia, the woman who runs the general store in Wyatt Earp (2026)

Tim Llewellyn as Wyatt Earp, ready to dole out his form of justice in Wyatt Earp (2026)