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* MinorCharacterMajorSong: Both in the sense that Music/BobDylan composed the music but played the relatively small role of one of Billy's hangers-on, and the film's BreakawayPopHit "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" being written from the point-of-view of Sheriff Baker as he dies.
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* PartlyCloudyWithAChanceOfDeath: Sheriff Baker somewhat reluctantly accompanies Pat Garrett to raid a bandit's safehouse in an attempt to learn where Billy is holed up, and gets wounded multiple times in the ensuing gunfight. [[TheDyingWalk He walks away from the fight]] to sit beside a small stream and wordlessly look out at the sunset while Music/BobDylan's "Knocking on Heaven's Door" (which was written specifically for that scene) plays in the background.
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* PopStarComposer: Bob Dylan!
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* PartlyCloudyWithAChanceOfDeath: Sheriff Baker somewhat reluctantly accompanies Pat Garrett to raid a bandit's safehouse in an attempt to learn where Billy is holed up, and gets wounded multiple times in the ensuing gunfight. [[TheDyingWalk He walks away from the fight]] to sit beside a small stream and wordlessly look out at the sunset while Music/BobDylan's "Knocking "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" (which was written specifically for that scene) plays in the background.
* PopStarComposer: BobDylan!Dylan's first attempt at a film score.
* PopStarComposer: Bob
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* NoAnimalsWereHarmed: Actually, animals were harmed. Those were real chickens really getting killed in the opening scene where Billy is shooting at them.
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* PyrrhicVillainy: By the end of the film, it's clear that Garrett realizes that he will lead a conflicted, unhappy life and will be chiefly remembered for killing his friend. Billy, meanwhile, will have most of his bits of sociopathy forgotten by an adoring public (to an extent, this extends to other portrayals of the two, including ''Film/YoungGunsII'').
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* PyrrhicVillainy: PyrrhicVictory: By the end of the film, it's clear that Garrett realizes that he will lead a conflicted, unhappy life and will be chiefly remembered for killing his friend. Billy, meanwhile, will have most of his bits of sociopathy forgotten by an adoring public (to an extent, this extends to other portrayals of the two, including ''Film/YoungGunsII'').
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* KnifeNut: Alias comes to Billy's aid by killing a gunman with a knife to the neck.
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* AbnormalAmmo: Billy kills Sheriff Olinger with a shotgun filled with sixteen dimes used as slugs.
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* AbnormalAmmo: Billy kills Sheriff Olinger with a his own shotgun filled with sixteen dimes used as slugs.slugs. Olinger had been taunting Billy about it leading up to it.
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New Mexico Territory, 1881. Pat Garrett (Coburn) rides into the town of Fort Sumter to find his old friend, legendary outlaw UsefulNotes/BillyTheKid (Kristofferson). After a friendly greeting where they reminisce about old times for a little bit, Garrett delivers some news: he has been appointed county sheriff, he has been ordered to chase Billy out of Lincoln County if Billy doesn't leave in the next six days, and he intends to do it.
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New Mexico Territory, 1881. 1881: Pat Garrett (Coburn) rides into the town of Fort Sumter to find his old friend, legendary outlaw UsefulNotes/BillyTheKid (Kristofferson). After a friendly greeting where they reminisce about old times for a little bit, Garrett delivers some news: he has been appointed county sheriff, he has been ordered to chase Billy out of Lincoln County if Billy doesn't leave in the next six days, and he intends to do it.
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The AllStarCast includes Creator/RichardJaeckel, Creator/ChillWills, Creator/BarrySullivan, Creator/JasonRobards, Creator/KatyJurado (who 20 years prior had starred in another Western classic, ''Film/HighNoon''), Creator/SlimPickens, Creator/CharlesMartinSmith, Creator/HarryDeanStanton, Creator/ElishaCookJr, and none other than Music/BobDylan, who plays a hoodlum named Alias. Dylan also composed the soundtrack, which includes [[BreakawayPopHit one of the biggest hits of his career]], "Knockin' on Heaven's Door".
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The AllStarCast includes Creator/RichardJaeckel, Creator/ChillWills, Creator/BarrySullivan, Creator/JasonRobards, Creator/KatyJurado (who 20 years prior had starred in another Western classic, ''Film/HighNoon''), Creator/SlimPickens, Creator/CharlesMartinSmith, Creator/HarryDeanStanton, and none other than Music/BobDylan, who plays a hoodlum named Alias. Dylan also composed the soundtrack, which includes [[BreakawayPopHit one of the biggest hits of his career]], "Knockin' on Heaven's Door".
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Like most fictional works about Billy the Kid, it exaggerates the closeness of his friendship with Pat Garrett. Billy and Garrett certainly knew each other, but their relationship probably wasn't closer than occasionally drinking and gambling together at the same saloons in Lincoln. Certainly there's no evidence that they were close enough that Garrett felt he was "betraying" Billy by tracking him down. Historians believe that Garrett exaggerated his closeness to Billy to [[RuleOfDrama make his memoirs more compelling]], which fictional treatments like Peckinpah's further embellish.
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New Mexico Territory, 1881. Pat Garrett (Coburn) rides into the town of Fort Sumter to find his old friend, legendary outlaw Billy the Kid UsefulNotes/BillyTheKid (Kristofferson). After a friendly greeting where they reminisce about old times for a little bit, Garrett delivers some news: he has been appointed county sheriff, he has been ordered to chase Billy out of Lincoln County if Billy doesn't leave in the next six days, and he intends to do it.
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''Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid'' is a 1973 film directed by Creator/SamPeckinpah, starring Creator/JamesCoburn and Kris Kristofferson.
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* AbnormalAmmo: Billy kills a sheriff with a shotgun filled with eighteen dimes (nine in each barrel) used as slugs.
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* AbnormalAmmo: Billy kills a sheriff Sheriff Olinger with a shotgun filled with eighteen sixteen dimes (nine in each barrel) used as slugs.
* BondOneLiner: Having shot Sheriff Olinger with a gun loaded with dimes, Billy quips, "Keep the change, Bob".
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* TheDyingWalk: Sheriff Baker does this at the end of a gunfight where Garrett, Sheriff Baker, and Baker's wife/deputy raided the hideout of some outlaws with links to Billy the Kid. After being shot several times in the fight, Baker (who had earlier told about how he was going to sail away on a boat he was building once he retied) walks away from the fight and staggers over to a tiny creek, where he watches the sunset until he dies. Easily the most famous scene from the movie, helped by the fact that Bob Dylan's "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" (which was composed for the movie) plays in the background.
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* TheDyingWalk: Sheriff Baker does this at the end of a gunfight where Garrett, Sheriff Baker, and Baker's wife/deputy raided the hideout of some outlaws with links to Billy the Kid. After being shot several times in the fight, Baker (who had earlier told about how he was going to sail away on a boat he was building once he retied) retired) walks away from the fight and staggers over to a tiny creek, where he watches the sunset until he dies. Easily the most famous scene from the movie, helped by the fact that Bob Dylan's "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" (which was composed for the movie) plays in the background.background.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: The mortally wounded Sheriff Baker staggers away from a gunfight and dies watching the sunset by the river.
* {{Fingore}}: Poe attempts to cut off Billy's trigger finger as a keepsake. Pat violently prevents him from doing so.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: The mortally wounded Sheriff Baker staggers away from a gunfight and dies watching the sunset by the river.
* {{Fingore}}: Poe attempts to cut off Billy's trigger finger as a keepsake. Pat violently prevents him from doing so.
* InTheBack: Billy shoots Deputy Sheriff J.W. Bell in the back while escaping. He begs him not to have to do it, but the man runs, forcing Billy to shoot him.
* KnifeNut: Alias comes to Billy's aid by killing a gunman with a knife to the neck.
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* NameAndName: ''Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid''Kid''.
* NeverBringAKnifeToAGunfight: Garett shoots Holly when he attacks him with a knife.
* NeverBringAKnifeToAGunfight: Garett shoots Holly when he attacks him with a knife.
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* PriceOnTheirHead: Garrett is offered a thousand dollars for the capture of Billy the Kid, with five hundred dollars upfront. Garrett rejects the money saying they can pay him in full when Billy is brought in.
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* {{Retirony}}: Shefiff Baker was planning on building a boat and sailing away upon retiring. He doesn't get that chance, but he does at least die near water.
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* RobbingTheDead: Garrett angrily hits Poe for attempting to cut off Billy's trigger finger.
* ShirtlessScene: Billy is shirtless in his final moments.
* ShirtlessScene: Billy is shirtless in his final moments.
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* WouldHitAGirl: Garrett roughs up a prostitute named Ruthie Lee to gain Billy's whereabouts.
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* AbnormalAmmo: Billy kills a sheriff with a shotgun filled with eighteen dimes (nine in each barrel) used as slugs.
* PartlyCloudyWithAChanceOfDeath: Sheriff Baker somewhat reluctantly accompanies Pat Garrett to raid a bandit's safehouse in an attempt to learn where Billy is holed up, and gets wounded multiple times in the ensuing gunfight. [[TheDyingWalk He walks away from the fight]] to sit beside a small stream and wordlessly look out at the sunset while Music/BobDylan's "Knocking on Heaven's Door" (which was written specifically for that scene) plays in the background.
* PyrrhicVillainy: By the end of the film, it's clear that Garrett realizes that he will lead a conflicted, unhappy life and will be chiefly remembered for killing his friend. Billy, meanwhile, will have most of his bits of sociopathy forgotten by an adoring public (to an extent, this extends to other portrayals of the two, including ''Film/YoungGunsII'').
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* ReCut: The film was a particularly infamous case of ExecutiveMeddling, culminating in Creator/{{MGM}} actually taking the film away from Peckinpah and releasing a considerably shorter version that nearly the entire cast panned and refused to be associated with. A director's cut version was shown once, but didn't make it to the general public until 15 years after the film's initial release. And just to make things more confusing, the DVD has 3 different versions.
* RidingIntoTheSunset:Played with, PlayedWith, as Garrett rides off into the sunrise. It doesn't symbolise a new beginning: Garrett's life is completely ruined, nothing left except remorse and loneliness. It symbolizes the death of the Old West and also the whole genre.
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* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Although it's the kind of movie where there's no real heroes or villains, Billy is largely presented as a sociopathic murderer and bandit who is nevertheless widely admired by the populace as a folk hero and rebel outlaw.
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* CreatorCameo: Screenwriter Rudy Wurlitzer appears as Tom O'Folliard, one of Billy's gang members.
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* YouWouldntShootMe: Billy has retrieved a hidden gun and gotten the drop on Bell the deputy. Bell says "You wouldn't shoot me InTheBack, Billy," and turns to flee. Billy shoots him in the back.
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A famous TroubledProduction. Peckinpah re-wrote the script, and argued with Creator/MetroGoldwynMayer throughout about cost overruns. Peckinpah's alcoholism was also a big problem on the set. MGM took the film from Peckinpah in post-production and cut 18 minutes off the 124-minute run time. A DirectorsCut was finally issued in 1988.
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A famous TroubledProduction. Peckinpah re-wrote the script, and argued with Creator/MetroGoldwynMayer throughout about cost overruns. Peckinpah's alcoholism was also a big problem on the set. MGM took the film from Peckinpah in post-production and cut 18 minutes off the 124-minute run time. A DirectorsCut of 122 minutes was finally issued in 1988.
1988. A slightly shorter version of 115 minutes was reedited for the DVD release in 2005.
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* AntiHero: Pat Garrett is an ex-outlaw pressured by political and business interests to turn against his old friend Billy. Billy himself, though, is a borderline sociopath who seems to enjoy killing people.
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* MoralityPet: Paco, whose scenes give Billy a more sympathetic side and motivation for his revenge against the Santa Fe Ring.
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* ButForMeItWasTuesday: At one point a group of gunman try to take on Billy's gang, led by one in particular who keeps insinuating that he knows Billy, but won't reveal how he knows The Kid. The ensuing shootout is a Curb-Stomp Battle in favor of Billy's gang, and afterward Billy wonders who the men were, concludes that it's far too soon since his latest escape from prison for bounty hunters to be after him, and says, "I guess it really must have been something personal." He thinks about it for another few seconds before he gives up trying to figure out who the guy was and goes back to eating lunch.
* TheDyingWalk: Has a gunfight scene where Garrett, Sheriff Baker, and Baker's wife/deputy raid the hideout of some outlaws with links to Billy the Kid. After being shot several times in the fight, Baker (who had earlier told about how he was going to sail away on a boat he was building once he retied) walks away from the fight and staggers over to a tiny creek, where he watches the sunset until he dies. Easily the most famous scene from the movie, helped by the fact that Bob Dylan's "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" (which was composed for the movie) plays in the background.
* TheDyingWalk: Has a gunfight scene where Garrett, Sheriff Baker, and Baker's wife/deputy raid the hideout of some outlaws with links to Billy the Kid. After being shot several times in the fight, Baker (who had earlier told about how he was going to sail away on a boat he was building once he retied) walks away from the fight and staggers over to a tiny creek, where he watches the sunset until he dies. Easily the most famous scene from the movie, helped by the fact that Bob Dylan's "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" (which was composed for the movie) plays in the background.
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* ButForMeItWasTuesday: At one point a group of gunman gunmen try to take on Billy's gang, led by one in particular who keeps insinuating that he knows Billy, but won't reveal how he knows The Kid. The ensuing shootout is a Curb-Stomp Battle CurbStompBattle in favor of Billy's gang, and afterward Billy wonders who the men were, were. He concludes that it's far too soon since his latest escape from prison for bounty hunters to be after him, and says, "I guess it really must have been something personal." He thinks about it for another few seconds before he gives up trying to figure out who the guy was and goes back to eating lunch.
* TheDyingWalk:Has Sheriff Baker does this at the end of a gunfight scene where Garrett, Sheriff Baker, and Baker's wife/deputy raid raided the hideout of some outlaws with links to Billy the Kid. After being shot several times in the fight, Baker (who had earlier told about how he was going to sail away on a boat he was building once he retied) walks away from the fight and staggers over to a tiny creek, where he watches the sunset until he dies. Easily the most famous scene from the movie, helped by the fact that Bob Dylan's "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" (which was composed for the movie) plays in the background.
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* NoAnimalsWereHarmed: Those were real chickens really getting killed in the opening scene where Billy is shooting at them.
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* RidingIntoTheSunset: Played with, as Garrett rides off into the sunrise. It doesn't symbolise a new beginning: Garrett's life is competely completely ruined, nothing left except remorse and loneliness. It symbolizes the death of the Old West and also the whole genre.
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* AttemptedRape: Chisum's mooks are whipping a Mexican man to death and are about to rape his wife when Billy swoops in and shoots them. He saves the wife but the husband dies.
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* ImColdSoCold: In Spanish! Billy rescues a Mexican husband and wife from Chisum's goons, but it's too late for the husband, who says "Siento mucho frio", then says "Como te sientes tu, Billy" ("How do you feel?") right before he dies.
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* BringMyBrownPants: After Garrett kills an outlaw in an inn, the innkeeper says "You just made me have a bowel movement in my pants, Garrett. I ain't ever gonna forgive you for this."
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* HowWeGotHere: Starts with Pat Garrett being murdered on his ranch in 1909.[[note]]A mistake, as Garrett was actually murdered on Feb. 29, 1908.[[/note]] Then the story picks up in 1881.
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* VictoriasSecretCompartment: Where Mrs. Baker keeps her bullets. She plucks several out of the Compartment during the shootout with Black Harris.
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* TenPacesAndTurn: Billy gets in a duel and when they start counting, he simply turns, draws his gun and waits. When his opponent doesn't wait till ten before turning, Billy calmly shoots him.
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* TenPacesAndTurn: Billy gets in a duel and when they start counting, he simply turns, draws his gun and waits. When his opponent doesn't wait till ten before turning, Billy calmly shoots him.him.
* YouWouldntShootMe: Billy has retrieved a hidden gun and gotten the drop on Bell the deputy. Bell says "You wouldn't shoot me InTheBack, Billy," and turns to flee. Billy shoots him in the back.
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The AllStarCast included Creator/JasonRobards (territorial governor Lew Wallace), Katy Jurado (who 20 years prior had starred in another Western classic, ''Film/HighNoon''), and none other than Music/BobDylan, who plays a hoodlum named Alias. Dylan also composed the soundtrack, which includes [[BreakawayPopHit one of the biggest hits of his career, career]], "Knockin' on Heaven's Door".
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* ButForMeItWasTuesday: At one point a group of gunman try to take on Billy's gang, led by one in particular who keeps insinuating that he knows Billy, but won't reveal how he knows The Kid. The ensuing shootout is a Curb-Stomp Battle in favor of Billy's gang, and afterward Billy wonders who the men were, concludes that it's far too soon since his latest escape from prison for bounty hunters to be after him, and says, "I guess it really must have been something personal." He thinks about it for another few seconds before he gives up trying to figure out who the guy was and goes back to eating lunch.
* TheDyingWalk: Has a gunfight scene where Garrett, Sheriff Baker, and Baker's wife/deputy raid the hideout of some outlaws with links to Billy the Kid. After being shot several times in the fight, Baker (who had earlier told about how he was going to sail away on a boat he was building once he retied) walks away from the fight and staggers over to a tiny creek, where he watches the sunset until he dies. Easily the most famous scene from the movie, helped by the fact that Bob Dylan's "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" (which was composed for the movie) plays in the background.
* TheKenBurnsEffect: Panning and zooming over stills from the film as the credits roll.
* NameAndName: ''Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid''
* NoAnimalsWereHarmed: Those were real chickens really getting killed in the opening scene where Billy is shooting at them.
* PopStarComposer: Bob Dylan!
* RageAgainstTheReflection: Garrett shoots at his reflection right after shooting Billy.
* RashEquilibrium: Billy and a deputized ex-crook get into a TenPacesAndTurn kind of duel. When they start taking steps, Billy immediately turns, draws his gun, and waits. When the deputy tries to turn and shoot a couple of steps before reaching ten, Billy's ready for him.
* RidingIntoTheSunset: Played with, as Garrett rides off into the sunrise. It doesn't symbolise a new beginning: Garrett's life is competely ruined, nothing left except remorse and loneliness. It symbolizes the death of the Old West and also the whole genre.
* TenPacesAndTurn: Billy gets in a duel and when they start counting, he simply turns, draws his gun and waits. When his opponent doesn't wait till ten before turning, Billy calmly shoots him.
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''Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid'' is a 1973 film directed by Creator/SamPeckinpah, starring Creator/JamesCoburn and Kris Kristofferson.
New Mexico Territory, 1881. Pat Garrett (Coburn) rides into the town of Fort Sumter to find his old friend, legendary outlaw Billy the Kid (Kristofferson). After a friendly greeting where they reminisce about old times for a little bit, Garrett delivers some news: he has been appointed county sheriff, he has been ordered to chase Billy out of Lincoln County if Billy doesn't leave in the next six days, and he intends to do it.
Billy doesn't leave, so six days later Garrett and his posse surround Billy's hideout and take him prisoner. Billy, however, escapes from the Lincoln County Jail, killing two deputies in the process. Garrett, offered a bounty of $1000, then goes hunting after Billy.
A famous TroubledProduction. Peckinpah re-wrote the script, and argued with Creator/MetroGoldwynMayer throughout about cost overruns. Peckinpah's alcoholism was also a big problem on the set. MGM took the film from Peckinpah in post-production and cut 18 minutes off the 124-minute run time. A DirectorsCut was finally issued in 1988.
The AllStarCast included Creator/JasonRobards (territorial governor Lew Wallace), Katy Jurado (who 20 years prior had starred in another Western classic, ''Film/HighNoon''), and none other than Music/BobDylan, who plays a hoodlum named Alias. Dylan also composed the soundtrack, which includes one of the biggest hits of his career, "Knockin' on Heaven's Door".
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New Mexico Territory, 1881. Pat Garrett (Coburn) rides into the town of Fort Sumter to find his old friend, legendary outlaw Billy the Kid (Kristofferson). After a friendly greeting where they reminisce about old times for a little bit, Garrett delivers some news: he has been appointed county sheriff, he has been ordered to chase Billy out of Lincoln County if Billy doesn't leave in the next six days, and he intends to do it.
Billy doesn't leave, so six days later Garrett and his posse surround Billy's hideout and take him prisoner. Billy, however, escapes from the Lincoln County Jail, killing two deputies in the process. Garrett, offered a bounty of $1000, then goes hunting after Billy.
A famous TroubledProduction. Peckinpah re-wrote the script, and argued with Creator/MetroGoldwynMayer throughout about cost overruns. Peckinpah's alcoholism was also a big problem on the set. MGM took the film from Peckinpah in post-production and cut 18 minutes off the 124-minute run time. A DirectorsCut was finally issued in 1988.
The AllStarCast included Creator/JasonRobards (territorial governor Lew Wallace), Katy Jurado (who 20 years prior had starred in another Western classic, ''Film/HighNoon''), and none other than Music/BobDylan, who plays a hoodlum named Alias. Dylan also composed the soundtrack, which includes one of the biggest hits of his career, "Knockin' on Heaven's Door".
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