Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
Sam Peckinpah
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Plot Summary
Oscar-winner James Coburn portrays legendary outlaw Billy the Kid's childhood friend, Pat Garrett. Now a law-abiding sheriff, he arrests Billy for murder. Sentenced to hang, Billy escapes in a hail of gunfire forcing Pat to hunt him down. Directed by acclaimed action director Sam Peckinpah ("The Wild Bunch," "Straw Dogs"). Starring Coburn ("The Great Escape," "The Magnificent Seven"), Kris Kristofferson ("A Star is Born"), Oscar-winner Jason Robards ("Philadelphia," "All the President's Men"), Oscar-nominee Katy Jurado ("High Noon") and Oscar-winner Chill Wills ("The Alamo," "Meet Me in St. Louis"). With Harry Dean Stanton ("Alien," "Kelly's Heroes"), Slim Pickens ("Dr. Strangelove") and folk-legend Bob Dylan. Featuring Dylan's smash hit, "Knockin' on Heaven's Door."
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Movie Reviews from Rotten Tomatoes
TOMATOMETER
82%- Reviews Counted: 17
- Fresh: 14
- Rotten: 3
- Average Rating: 7.2/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Rotten: The mushy pretensions of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid suggest either that [Peckinpah] has begun to take talk about his genius too seriously (it can happen to the best) or that he has fallen in with bad company.
Fresh: A richer, more rewarding experience.
Fresh: It's one of the great tragic true stories of the old wild West, the story of two outlaw friends ending up enemies as one turns over and becomes a lawman - expressly for the purpose of hunting down his friend.
Customer Reviews
Altered Soundtracks are an Outrage
That this movie can be released and billed as being the same movie that was released in 1973 is an outrage. Even though most people think Guns and Roses wrote "Knockin' on Heavens Door", they're wrong. Bob Dylan wrote it, and it originally played over the final scenes of this movie, the part where Pat Garrett reluctantly kills Billy, and that song is GONE from the soundtrack on this "version" of the film. THAT, my friends, is an outrage.
"Momma; Put My Guns In The Ground!"
.."I Can't Shoot Them Anymore!"..What an Captivating Combination: Coburn; Dylan; Kristofferson & Peckinpaw!-"Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid" is a Modernist; Moralistic and Macho version of what may have happened to the legendary William Bonney!-No one here is purely Good or Evil; Everyone is fighting for their own Survival; Alliances are Temporary and Dangerous; Just like Life must have been in the last days of "The Wild; Wild West!"-{The Soundtrack; All composed by Bob (Alias) Dylan; Accentuates the Action & The Scenery perfectly!}-Catch this Western Classic Again!...by Grimmbo.
Missing Dylan
This is the "director's cut," which means you don't get "Knockin' on Heaven's Door." What was Sam Peckinpaugh thinking. I love the movie but that really makes it an unfortunate event.
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- $9.99
- Genre: Western
- Released: 2006
- © 1973 A Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved
