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Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid is a 1973 American revisionist Western film directed by Sam Peckinpah, written by Rudy Wurlitzer, and starring James Coburn, Kris Kristofferson, Richard Jaeckel, Katy Jurado, Chill Wills, Barry Sullivan, Jason Robards, Slim Pickens and Bob Dylan.
Patrick Floyd Jarvis Garrett (June 5, 1850 – February 29, 1908) was an American Old West lawman, bartender and customs agent known for killing Billy the Kid. He was the sheriff of Lincoln County, New Mexico, as well as Doña Ana County, New Mexico .
May 23, 1973 · Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid: Directed by Sam Peckinpah. With James Coburn, Kris Kristofferson, Richard Jaeckel, Katy Jurado. Pat Garrett is hired as a lawman on behalf of a group of wealthy New Mexico cattle barons to bring down his old friend Billy the Kid.
Jun 1, 2024 · Pat Garrett was a Western U.S. lawman known as the man who killed Billy the Kid. Born in Alabama and reared in Louisiana, Garrett left home at about the age of 17 and headed for Texas and the life of a cowboy and buffalo hunter.
2 days ago · Sam Peckinpah’s “Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid” has about it an air of abeyance, of incompletion spurred by decades of mythology and rumor about its troubled production, contentious post-production, and the personal demons plaguing a director whose prickliness and battles with addiction have troubled considerations of his work and artistic legacy.
As newly minted lawman Pat Garrett (James Coburn) stalks the outlaw Billy the Kid (Kris Kristofferson) across the plains, their old friendship is twisted into rivalry, and mythic ideals of freedom come up against an emerging ruling-class order—all to the strains of a haunting soundtrack by Bob Dylan (who also appears as the mercurial Alias).
Apr 3, 2014 · Billy the Kid was a late 19th-century thief and gunfighter. He was reportedly killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett, who later burnished the legend of the Wild West outlaw.
Jun 3, 2022 · In the aftermath of Billy the Kid’s dead, Pat Garrett became known as the man who’d killed the famous outlaw. But reactions toward him were mixed. Though one local newspaper dubbed Garrett the “hero of the hour” others resented him for killing Billy the Kid.
Jul 2, 2024 · The most turbulent production of a turbulent career—shot in faraway, dusty Durango, Mexico, with a crew racked by illness and cameras that didn’t work and a studio that never showed any faith in it—Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid is, among other things, the story of an artist who gave himself too much license for too much excess while also ...
"Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid," good and true friends from way back, find themselves on opposite sides of the law when Garrett becomes sheriff. He locks Billy up for an old murder, and Billy is scheduled to hang in three days.
