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Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid

Cast

James Coburn, Kris Kristofferson, Richard Jaeckel, Katy Jurado View All

Crew

Sam Peckinpah (Director), Rudy Wurlitzer (Screenplay) View All

Release: May 23rd, 1973

Runtime: 1 hour, 46 minutes

An aging Pat Garrett is hired as a lawman on behalf of a group of wealthy New Mexico cattle barons--his sole purpose being to bring down his old friend Billy the Kid.

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Captain Spaulding
In my favorite scene, Pat Garrett (played by James Coburn) orders Bob Dylan's character to read aloud the cans on the shelves while he interrogates two other men about the whereabouts of Billy the Kid.

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Iroquois
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid marks another revisionist Western, but it is a far different type of deconstruction to that of Peckinpah's most well-renowned film.