Film · 1957 · Films · 1950s
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Scored from 105 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1950s (561 peers).
Summary
A Western recounting the legendary confrontation at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona, between lawman Wyatt Earp and gunslinger Doc Holliday against the outlaw Clanton gang, exploring the clash of civilization and frontier justice.
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral is a 1957 biography, drama and western film. It runs 2h 2m. Its country of origin is listed as the United States.
The calibrated figure is built from 105 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 107 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 560 1950s films, not against the whole corpus.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where Gunfight at the O.K. Corral lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against Films · 1950s (561 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 105.
Cohort: Films · 1950s
