You Know My Name (1999)

In six months the population of Cromwell Oklahoma has climbed from 500 to 10000 Boom times have come to the oilrich town So has a new breed of criminal You Know My Name is the factbased story of Bill Tilghman a lawman and former partner of Wyatt Earp confronted by an emerging era when outlaws run whiskey instead of cattle and are likely to tote a tommy gun as carry a sixgun An ideally cast Sam Elliott plays Tilghman whose life takes on a newfangled wrinkle of its own Tilghman makes a moving picture of his Old West exploits and the success of that silent film The Passing of the Oklahoma Outlaws spreads his reputation like a brushfire But that reputation may mean nothing to a thug Arliss Howard who hides behind a badge