HuckleBearer

[gaucho1]

The great question has finally and definitively been answered.








Thank You .......Very Much...................

 

[Mike McLellan]

Don't mention it. Glad to help.

 

[soFlaNative]

Heard Doc say it twice during the movie. Wasn't sure the first time even though I was listening for it. No doubt when he said it again in the woods.

I guess I can sleep tonight...

 

[fdw]

you are correct.

 

[zzzippper]

Oh God, not again. HUCKLEBERRY.

 

[Rustyt1953]

Gotta go with the script.

 

[carpriver]

Who said I am your Huckleberry? Whberry wine,y would anyone want to be a Huckleberry? I have drank blackberry WIne.

 

[gaucho1]

Who said I am your Huckleberry? Whberry wine,y would anyone want to be a Huckleberry? I have drank blackberry WIne.

Well..........it beats Dingle......................

 

[fdw]

I think Doc said huckleberry but after some research I believe it should have been huckle bearer. I think Val signed a poster somewhere with huckleberry, perhaps it was a case of a mistype in the script.

At any rate, it's a great movie!

 

[rog8732]

Don't think you should depend too much on the enunciation of a drunk dentist.
If memory serves, you can buy huckleberry jam in Utah, but that other stuff, HUCKLE, that Doc was bearing is unfamiliar to me.

 

[fdw]

Don't think you should depend too much on the enunciation of a drunk dentist.
If memory serves, you can buy huckleberry jam in Utah, but that other stuff, HUCKLE, that Doc was bearing is unfamiliar to me.

If I remember correctly I believe a huckle bearer is a handle on a casket.

 

[Alpo]

I have never read, seen or heard, prior to Tombstone, of a huckle.

I have, however, read many books from before WW2 where huckleberry is used.

It's a slang term meaning "perfect man for the job".

Need someone to shoot down twenty-eight Japanese planes? Pappy Boyington is your huckleberry.

Need someone to lead a charge up San Juan Hill. Theodore Roosevelt is your huckleberry.

Need someone to outdraw Johnny Ringo? Doc Holiday is your huckleberry.

 

[rog8732]

Well, this decision seems to be headed for a "NO DECISION"; but would anybody argue Tombstone is the best work Val Kilmer did ?
I say DID, because he seems to have dropped away, since .......

He was good in "Heat", and I thought "Salton Sea" was a good, (and quirky) role, and O K in a few others, but nothing else stands out.

 

[O2Guy]

Well..........it beats Dingle......................

Dingle bearer?

 

[Alpo]

I really liked him at Nick Rivers, in Top Secret. Kind of an Elvis/007 parody.

 

[soFlaNative]

Well, this decision seems to be headed for a "NO DECISION"; but would anybody argue Tombstone is the best work Val Kilmer did ?
I say DID, because he seems to have dropped away, since .......

He was good in "Heat", and I thought "Salton Sea" was a good, (and quirky) role, and O K in a few others, but nothing else stands out.

I liked how he talked his way out of the crow cage in "Willow".

 

[Jessie]

I know, have Sip check with his Hollywood contacts and get the low down.

 

[handejector]

I have never read, seen or heard, prior to Tombstone, of a huckle.

I have, however, read many books from before WW2 where huckleberry is used.

It's a slang term meaning "perfect man for the job".

Need someone to shoot down twenty-eight Japanese planes? Pappy Boyington is your huckleberry.

Need someone to lead a charge up San Juan Hill. Theodore Roosevelt is your huckleberry.

Need someone to outdraw Johnny Ringo? Doc Holiday is your huckleberry.

Huckleberry Hound says this is the right answer.
He predates the movie by decades, so I'm goin with it.

 

[NCTexan]

"Huckle Bearer"... End of Conversation.