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Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid

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Original title

Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid

Year

1973

Running time

122 min.

Country

United States

Director

Sam Peckinpah

Screenwriter

Rudy Wurlitzer

Cast

Music

Bob Dylan

Cinematography

John Coquillon

Producer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Genre

Western. Drama | Friendship

Synopsis

1909. Bushwhackers from the politically corrupt Santa Fe Ring gun down New Mexico rancher Pat Garrett (James Coburn) on his own land. 1881. Pat is a friend to and former lawbreaker with William Bonney (Kris Kristofferson). Seeing middle age and poverty on the horizon, Garrett sells out to the ambitious cohorts of governor Lew Wallace (Jason Robards Jr.), takes on a badge, and proceeds to hunt down and kill Bonney - better known as Billy the Kid.

Rankings Position

#29 Best Westerns in the history of film
#55 Best Movies of the '70s

Awards: 1973: BAFTA Awards: Nominated Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles (Kristofferson) and Music

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Critics' reviews

"A dry, dour film where the moments of poetic Americana barely cohere"

Noel Murray: Los Angeles Times
"The movie fails to work up much excitement, and the title song by Bob Dylan is quite simply awful."

Roger Ebert: Chicago Sun-Times
"Probably nobody involved was very happy about the results; Dylan doesn't come off at all."

Pauline Kael: The New Yorker
"Like Ford's 'The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance', it both records and condemns the passage of time and the advent of progress; and there is a sombre, mournful quality which places the film very high up in the league of great Westerns."

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Ranking Lists Position

29 My Favorite Westerns (254)

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