One of the most bittersweet films of Peckinpah's career.
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973)
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Reviews Counted:16
Fresh:13
Rotten:3
Average Rating:7.2/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 2 mins
Genre: Westerns
Synopsis: The story of western legend Pat Garrett, once was an outlaw but now a lawman... and out to capture his old friend and gunslinger, now nemesis, Billy the Kid.
Starring: Kris Kristofferson, James Coburn, Bob Dylan, Katy Jurado
Starring: Kris Kristofferson, James Coburn, Bob Dylan, Katy Jurado, Jason Robards, Richard Jaeckel, Slim Pickens, Chill Wills
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Producer: Gordon Carroll
Composer: Bob Dylan
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Reviews for Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
Some Peckinpah devotees consider the film among his finest work, others regard it as, well, troubled. Fascinating, nonetheless.
It's a movie that exists almost entirely on one note -- a low, melancholy one -- and achieves what I thought would have been impossible for him Peckinpah: he's boring.
...it could've %u2014 should've %u2014 been [Peckinpah's] third or fourth masterpiece (that depends on who's doing the counting), and the movie he'd been building towards his entire career.
Sam Peckinpah's virtually unseen Western turns out to be unseen for a reason.
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.
The film is visually stunning, and Peckinpah makes great use of his Durango, Mexico, locations.
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.
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