Still image from the 1973 film Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid.

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid

Directed by Sam Peckinpah

The legendary outlaw clashes with his former best friend, now the sheriff.

1973 1h 46m Western TV-MA

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CAST
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Sam Peckinpah, Director
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Sam Peckinpah
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James Coburn,
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James Coburn

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Kris Kristofferson,
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Kris Kristofferso..

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Bob Dylan,
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Bob Dylan

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Richard Jaeckel,
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Richard Jaeckel

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Paul Fix,
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Paul Fix

FULL SYNOPSIS

When aging Pat Garrett becomes the sheriff in Lincoln County, New Mexico, the governor of the state expects him to bring down his old friend, Billy the Kid. Garrett and his deputies trap Billy in his hideout and force him to surrender. As the gallows are being built for him, Billy is tormented by a self-righteous deputy named Ollinger, but eventually he manages to escape from jail and uses Ollinger's own gun to kill him. Sheriff Garrett appoints a new posse to capture Billy again and some of them die in the attempt. Billy keeps running, but the relentless Garrett finds him one night near Fort Sumner where they have their final showdown.


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Killing Of Buckshot Roberts...
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This Town Has Got No Hat Size...
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The Big Peckerheads...
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In Studios Now
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ARTICLES
By the time Sam Peckinpah began filming Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid in 1972, it would be fair to say that the director himself was considered an outlaw. Far more graceful as a filmmaker than as a man, Peckinpah drank, cursed, and punched his way through a career that reached a zenith with The Wild Bunch (1969), an extraordinarily violent meditation on dying Western ideals. From there on, though, Peckinpah's pictures were flawed character studies that still bore the indelible imprint of their creator. To work on a latter-day Peckinpah film was to be immersed in a three-ring circus of antagonism, with the director serving as both the clown and the ringmaster. The best anyone could do was take a deep breath and hang on tight. Peckinpah bookends his version of the Billy the Kid legend with scenes of the broken lawman, Pat Garrett (James Coburn), reflecting on his own loss of dignity as capitalists shatter the codes of the Old West. The rest of the movie unfolds as a gritty memory, in which Billy the Kid (Kris Kristofferson) escapes from a Lincoln, New Mexico jail and heads to Fort Sumner. There, he confronts his old friend, Garrett, who's been hired by the Governor (Jason Robards, Jr.) to bring the outlaw to justice. A mysterious newspaperman named Alias (Bob Dylan) is so seduced by Billy's mystique, he decides to tag along on the doom-laden journey. Peckinpah is especially pitiless, even by his own standards, as he carefully orchestrates Billy's inevitable demise. ...

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