It arrived at a time when the silver screen was realizing tremendous competition from TV and other genres of cinematic entertainment.Henry Fonda, a superb character actor, portrays the life of the legendary Wyatt Earp, an independent, drifter cowboy and ex-marshal who becomes a responsible lawman." The Emperor could only be killed by being stabbed in the heart with the sacred dagger.She claimed: "My mother put a curse on it long ago." She also feared: "If the Emperor reaches Shangri-La and drinks from the Pool of Eternal Life, he will raise his army and no one will be safe.But their sloppy, conspiratorial murder was quickly detected and they were apprehended.Both were convicted and sentenced to death - and were electrocuted in January of 1928 at Sing Sing.An infamous tabloid picture, surreptitiously aken (with a camera strapped to his ankle) by news photographer Thomas Howard of Ruth""s body as she was executed, was published on he front page of the New YorkDaily News.