Tombstone

IMDB lists the quote as, "I'm your huckleberry" but according to Val Kilmer, he said "I'm your hucklebearer."

A "huckleberry" is in 19th century slang a phrase meaning "I'm your man" or "I'll play your game." A huckle is a handle on a coffin, and hucklebearers are those who carry a coffin by the handles. Doc Holliday was supposedly saying "I'm your hucklebearer" to mean, "I'll be carrying you to your grave" as in, I am going to kill you.

Either way, it makes sense...but if Val Kilmer says he said "hucklebearer" then he should know.


Uh, this would seem to end the confusion to me, especially the last line.
 
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