Lot's of Acoustic Guitars that sound like they are right there in the room with you. "[18], In 2005, a DVD of the film distributed by Warner Bros. was released containing the preview version as well as a new special edition which combined elements of the theatrical version, the preview version, and several new scenes never released in the previous versions. The director was so unhappy with the footage that he angrily stood on a folding chair and urinated on the screen. Garrett meets up with Sheriff Colin Baker (Slim Pickens), hoping he can provide information on Billy's whereabouts. For example, near the start Billy is arrested and as he makes his way towards the lawmen who have come to take him, he adopts a Christ-like pose which is presumably meant to signify that he was some kind of martyr among Wild West outlaws (when, in reality, he was probably just a psychopath).However, there are stunning moments in the film too. Garrett was away from Lincoln on county business when the Kid made his escape. Best of enemies. Thomas, Kevin (May 24, 1973). Check out our editors' picks for the best movies and shows coming your way in May. This FAQ is empty. Three members of Billy's gang come into the saloon. Aubrey, enraged by the cost and production overruns, demanded the film for an unrealistic release date. Sheriff Pat Garrett (James Coburn) is ordered by Governor Wallace (Jason Robards) to go after the outlaw Billy the Kid (Kris Kristofferson) because the cattle businessmen want him caught. Unfortunately Sam…had a blind spot there. It is ranked 126th on Empire magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time.[5]. A recently released ex-con and his loyal wife go on the run after a heist goes awry. Wikimedia Commons Billy the Kid (left) playing croquet in New Mexico in 1878. View production, box office, & company info. Garrett warns Olinger not to taunt Billy again or he will be fired and sent back to Texas; then, Garrett leaves town to collect taxes leaving his two deputies to guard Billy. The film finished 21 days behind schedule and $1.6 million over budget. Pat Garrett, erstwhile travelling companion of the outlaw Billy the Kid has become a sheriff, tasked by cattle interests with ridding the territory of Billy. Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid is an amazing movie and deserves to be as widely known and loved as The Wild Bunch. Peckinpah's preview version[Note 1] was released on video in 1988, leading to a re-evaluation, with many critics hailing it as a mistreated classic and one of the era's best films. An American bar room pianist and his prostitute girlfriend go on a trip through the Mexican underworld to collect a bounty on the head of a dead gigolo. Garrett replied, “I do not shoot at my friends as you have been shot.” Jim Keltner, Roger McGuinn, Terry Paul & Bob Dylan. Neither knew, however, that, by sheer coincidence, they would converge at the Maxwell place on the warm moonlit night of July 14, 1881. [10] Roger Ebert rated the film two stars out of four, beginning his review with: "Sam Peckinpah attempted to have his name removed from Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. "[Dylan and I] spent a lot of time chatting in our trailers and I told him about my friend Willie Nelson. Peckinpah himself was in possession of his own preview version, which he often showed to friends as his own definitive vision of the film. The leading performances of James Coburn (Garrett) and Kris Kristofferson (Billy) are rather colourless, but the subsidiary characters are beautifully delineated. The acting, the music and the photography fit together harmoniously to make this a truly magical cinematic moment.One word of warning: beware of the incoherent, chopped-up 106 minute version of the film. It's a bled of the lyrics from all the recorded versions that puts the whole story together in a somewhat timely fashion using the most poetic lyrics. The preview version is sometimes referred to as Peckinpah's "director's cut". The film's reputation has grown substantially since this version was released, and the film has come to be regarded as something of a modern classic, equal in many ways to Peckinpah's earlier films. Working with Wurlitzer, he rewrote the script in order to create a more cyclical narrative, and added a prologue and epilogue depicting Garrett's own assassination at the hands of the men who hired him to kill Billy the Kid. Search for "Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid" on Amazon.com, Title: Peckinpah did complete a preview version of the film, which was shown to critics on at least one occasion. 53 of 75 people found this review helpful. It's 1881 in New Mexico, and the times they are a'changing. Billy leaves town. Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid is reminiscent of Another Side of Bob Dylan, but only in its rambling rhythms and undisciplined and flat vocal style. In the original script, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid never met onscreen until the film's conclusion, and Wurlitzer reportedly resented Peckinpah's reworking of the narrative. Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid is a unique western. Alias had witnessed Billy's escape from the Lincoln County Jail. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Music Published by Ram's Horn Music (ASCAP) Booker T and Priscilla Courtesy of A&M Records Brenda Patterson Courtesy of Playboy Records. Along the way, Billy stops at the Horrell Trading Post, which is owned by an old friend. In 1881 in Old Fort Sumner, New Mexico, William H. Bonney, known as Billy the Kid (Kris Kristofferson), is passing the time with friends shooting chickens for fun. Baker and his wife (Katy Jurado) go with Garrett to arrest some of Billy's old gang. German commander Hauptmann Stransky (Maximilian Schell) places a squad in extreme danger after Sergeant Rolf Steiner (James Coburn) refuses to lie for him. But what he doesn't realize is that his partner and old friend is plotting to double-cross him. Listen free to Bob Dylan – Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (Main Title Theme (Billy), Cantina Theme (Workin' for the Law) and more). Jones, Emilio Fernández, Aurora Clavel, Luke Askew, Jack Dodson, Richard Bright, and John Beck. Rated R for western violence and sexuality/nudity, after firing a coachgun loaded with 10 cents coins at Deputy Bob Ollinger, Lou Diamond Phillips Says He Got the Call for Young Guns 3, Lou Diamond Phillips Talks Young Guns 3 Possibilities and the Return of Chavez [Exclusive]. Canby also found the Bob Dylan music "so oppressive that when it stops we feel giddy with relief, as if a tooth had suddenly stopped aching. Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid Overall, there are a huge number of unanswered questions. sequence analysis from Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973, Sam Peckinpah) - available on Warner DVD. Real West, August 1982. Instead, Mr. Wurlitzer has come up with what is apparently an unconscious parody of the Peckinpah concerns for fading frontiers, comradeship and machismo." The creation of the story of an aging sheriff hired to kill his old friend Billy the Kid, however, was riddled with problems. They ended up doing all these old Django Reinhardt tunes. The stories of … Was this review helpful to you? [19], This article is about the movie. Pat Garrett, erstwhile travelling companion of the outlaw Billy the Kid has become a sheriff, tasked by cattle interests with ridding the territory of Billy. Garrett recruits an old friend he helped become a sheriff and along with Poe rides to Fort Sumner to find Billy. Peckinpah believed that this was his chance to make a definitive statement on the Western genre and complete the revision that he had begun with Ride the High Country (1962) and The Wild Bunch (1969). Aubrey objected to several scenes that he considered superfluous to the film's plot, and Peckinpah and his crew reportedly worked weekends and lunch hours to secretly complete the sequences. Furthermore, Aubrey still objected to several sequences in the film which he wanted removed, forcing Peckinpah to engage in protracted negotiations over the film's content. Wurlitzer and Peckinpah had a strained relationship, and Wurlitzer would later write a book highly unfavorable to Peckinpah. Armstrong, Elisha Cook, Jr., and Paul Fix. Martin Scorsese had just made Mean Streets (1973) and was at the screening, and he praised the film as Peckinpah's greatest since The Wild Bunch. This version, however, would not see the light of day for over ten years. The black and white image, taken in August 1880, shows the notorious outlaw with a gang of men, one of whom is Sheriff Pat Garrett, Billy the Kid's … Peckinpah deliberately cast his film's supporting roles with legendary Western character actors such as Chill Wills, Katy Jurado, Jack Elam, Slim Pickens, Barry Sullivan (who himself had played Pat Garrett in The Tall Man (TV series) from 1960 to 1962), Dub Taylor, R.G. to persuade certain acquaintances, who are Soviet Agents of the Omega network, to defect. Garrett beats up a prostitute named Ruthie Lee (Rutanya Alda) and learns from her that Billy is in Fort Sumner. He is confronted by three strangers looking to kill him; all three are killed in the subsequent shootout, helped by another stranger called Alias (Bob Dylan), who kills one of the men with a knife through the neck. A gambler and a prostitute become business partners in a remote Old West mining town, and their enterprise thrives until a large corporation arrives on the scene. He then retrieves Olinger's shotgun loaded with "sixteen thin dimes" and shoots Olinger dead in the street, saying, "Keep the change, Bob." Pat Garrett was elected Sheriff of Lincoln County in 1880 on a reform ticket with the expectation that he would reinstate justice in the area. The film is about an aging Pat Garrett (Coburn), hired as a lawman by a group of wealthy New Mexico cattle barons to bring down his old friend Billy the Kid (Kristofferson). Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Adding to the problems, Bob Dylan had never done a feature film score and Peckinpah's usual composer, Jerry Fielding, was unhappy with being relegated to a minor role in the scoring process. Hide & Seek. According to producer Gordon Carroll, the movie's set was "a battleground. Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times wrote, "Although 'Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid' (at selected theaters) is approximately 15 minutes shorter than its director Sam Peckinpah cut it, it nevertheless emerges as a remarkable film that is perhaps Peckinpah's best, most mature work to date." The movie tells a simple story, simple-mindedly. Garrett rides to Roswell ahead of Poe to gather more clues on Billy's whereabouts. Kristofferson also brought Bob Dylan into the film, initially hired to write the title song. The movie opens in 1909 (though Pat Garrett was killed in 1908), near Las Cruces, New Mexico. A young American and his English wife come to rural England and face increasingly vicious local harassment. In Garrett's biography, The Authentic Life of Billy the Kid, when Tom O’Folliard (a friend of the Kid's) was mortally wounded and in pain, the dying outlaw pleaded with Garrett that if he was a friend he would put him out of his misery. My guess is that there was an argument over the movie's final form, and that Peckinpah and MGM platooned editors at each other during the battle. Garrett is joined by a glory-seeking John W. Poe (John Beck), who works for the Santa Fe Ring. Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid is a 1973 American revisionist western drama 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 and Bob Dylan. Dylan himself appeared in the film as the character "Alias". Written by New Mexico Office of the State Historian. The screenplay of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid was written by Rudy Wurlitzer and was originally intended to be directed by Monte Hellman. Comparing the Three Different Cuts", Senses of Cinema - Drifting out of the Territory: Sam Peckinpah's, Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire, Dick Brewer, Billy the Kid and the Regulators, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pat_Garrett_and_Billy_the_Kid&oldid=1019716848, Pages using infobox film with unknown empty parameters, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 25 April 2021, at 00:47. He was reportedly killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett, who later burnished the legend of the Wild West outlaw. ", Peckinpah was plagued by alcoholism, with which he would struggle for the remainder of his life. 2 talking about this. So, the next day, Bob calls Willie up and gets him to come down to the set, and he made him play his old Martin guitar for ten hours straight. Dylan eventually wrote the score and played the role of "Alias". Kristofferson's band would play small roles, along with his wife Rita Coolidge. [4], The film was noted for behind-the-scenes battles between Peckinpah and the studio, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Additionally, whereas McCartney's work was a piece of pure pop-oriented rock in connection with a crowd-pleasing action-fantasy film, Dylan's work … Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer President James Aubrey, for economic reasons, refused to give Peckinpah the time or budget required, forcing the director to rely on local crew members in the Mexican state of Durango. In 1864, due to frequent Apache raids from Mexico into the U.S., a Union officer decides to illegally cross the border and destroy the Apache, using a mixed army of Union troops, Confederate POWs, civilian mercenaries, and scouts. Six days later, Garrett and his deputies surround the small farmhouse where Billy and his gang are holed up. "[13] Variety declared, "Whereas Peckinpah's nostalgia for a frontier world where might makes right and women were for the taking has previously been communicated via forceful acting and striking visuals, here there are few graces to camouflage the narrative banality. Pat Garrett. Garrett and the two face off briefly from a distance before lowering their rifles. This version led to a rediscovery and reevaluation of the film, with many critics praising it as a lost masterpiece and proof of Peckinpah's vision as a filmmaker at this time. Sam Peckinpah became involved through actor James Coburn, who wanted to play the legendary sheriff Pat Garrett. "[11] Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune awarded the same two-star grade and wrote that the film "appears to have been shot in emotional slow motion, and the self-inflating lethargy and mugging of all concerned reduces the enterprise to an exercise in pretension. It was filmed on location in Durango, Mexico,[3] and was nominated for two BAFTA Awards for Film Music (Dylan) and Most Promising Newcomer (Kristofferson). Self confession, I am more of a MOFI fan than a Bob Dylan fan. referencing Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid (Soundtrack), LP, Album, Ltd, Num, RE, RM, 180, MFSL 1-487, 88875183731. This compilation of clips is a salute to the great film, "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid." Garrett angrily hits Poe for attempting to cut off Billy's trigger finger. Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid is a soundtrack album released by Bob Dylan in 1973 for the Sam Peckinpah film of the same name. The Filmmaker’s Final Vision," IndieWire, Wednesday, April 2, 2014. Canby, Vincent (May 24, 1973). "Gunfighters of the Real West: Pat Garrett." A hobo accidentally stumbles onto a water spring, and creates a profitable way station in the middle of the desert. Garrett rejects the money saying they can pay him in full when Billy is brought in and warns them that he will be successful as long as another cattle war is not started. Multiple technical problems, including malfunctioning cameras, led to costly reshoots. Meanwhile, Garrett and Poe arrive at a saloon. It's 1881 in New Mexico, and the times they are a'changing. Kristofferson was 36 when the film was made, playing 21-year-old Billy. The two ride southwest to meet John Chisum (Barry Sullivan), a powerful cattle baron, who informs them that Billy has been rustling his cattle again and killed some of his men; Billy once worked for him and claimed that Chisum owes him $500 of back salary. Peckinpah had never heard of Dylan, but was reportedly moved by hearing him play the proposed title song and hired him immediately. For the movie's soundtrack, see, Post-production controversy, release and Preview version. Billy blasts his way out of jail, goes on the run, and sets up a chase through the West that lasts for the final hour of the movie. Billy goes to get some meat and, after seeing Garrett's deputies (who are both afraid to shoot the Kid), backs into a bedroom where Garrett shoots him. Meanwhile, Billy returns to his gang at Old Fort Sumner, where he decides to lie back for a few days. In 1988, Turner Home Entertainment, with distribution by MGM, released Peckinpah's preview version of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid on video and Laserdisc. Billy the Kid was a late 19th-century thief and gunfighter. "The dialog's as slow as a Peckinpah bullet". After taunting Holly (Richard Bright) and getting him drunk, Garrett shoots him dead after he pulls a knife. An ex-union soldier is hired to transport gold from a mining community through dangerous territory. [2], Dylan composed the score and songs for the film, most prominently "Knockin' on Heaven's Door", which were released on its soundtrack album the same year. This, combined with his clashes with Aubrey and the studio, led to his growing reputation as a difficult, unreliable filmmaker. Add the first question. The large supporting cast also included Richard Jaeckel, Charles Martin Smith, Harry Dean Stanton, Matt Clark, L.Q. Ed Sutton . [1], The film was also panned by most major critics, who had harbored high expectations for the director's spiritual successor to The Wild Bunch. They offer a thousand dollars for the capture of Billy the Kid, with five hundred dollars upfront. Siskel, Gene (June 1, 1973). IMDb Poll Board Favorite Underrated Movies. He tells Alias to give Billy a message that they had "a little drink together". Later that night Billy and his girlfriend, the daughter of Pete Maxwell, have sex as Garrett and his two deputies arrive. During an interview in 1983, Pat Garrett’s last surviving daughter, Elizabeth, claimed that her father did not kill the Kid. Both Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett knew the Maxwell family well. But that was where the similarities between the two projects ended -- apart from the title song, Live and Let Die was Martin's project rather than McCartney's, whereas Dylan was all over Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid as a composer, musician, etc. Jason Robards had starred in Peckinpah's earlier films, the television production Noon Wine (1966) and The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970), and had a cameo appearance as the governor. [6] Similar stories began to reach Hollywood, prompting Peckinpah to purchase a full-page ad in The Hollywood Reporter mocking the rumors and the brass at MGM. Garrett, who had been tracking the Kid Live TV Around 9:00 p.m., said Utley, Billy lounged on the ground with friends in … On December 15, 1880, Governor Wallace put a $500 reward on Though she acknowledged its ambition and "amazing cast", Pauline Kael described the film as "peculiarly unrealized" and mused that "probably nobody involved was very happy about the results". By the time that Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid was in the editing room, Peckinpah's relationship with the studio and his own producers had reached the breaking point. Garrett succeeded in capturing Billy the Kid and a few other outlaws at Stinking Springs on December 23, 1880. Songs by Bob Dylan Produced by Gordon Carroll Engineered by Dan Wallin The Burbank Studios No reviews yet. [17] Kristofferson noted in an interview, though, that Peckinpah had felt that Dylan had been pushed on him by the studio and thus left "Knocking on Heaven's Door" out of the preview version. Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid subtitles. Pat Garrett and the Kid no doubt knew each other, but they were not close friends. Later that evening, Garrett watches a barge floating down a river with a man shooting bottles in the water. After Billy escapes, Pat assembles a posse and chases him through the territory, culminating in a final confrontation at Fort Sumner, but is unaware of the full scope of the cattle interests' plans for the New West. Billy 7. From the beginning, the production was plagued with difficulties. He's a genius.' It was also nominated for a Grammy Award for Album of Best Original Score (Dylan). The time is 1881. Billy finds a gun hidden for him in the outhouse and shoots Bell in the back. Parts of it are just brilliant, other moments are bungled, but it is composed and structured like no other movie from the genre.Everyone knows the western legend about these two central characters, who went from being friends to sworn adversaries. Use the HTML below. He locks Billy up for an old murder, and Billy is scheduled to hang in three days. 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. This third version of the film, known as the "special edition", runs slightly shorter than the preview version. Garrett mounts his horse and rides out of town, with a small boy throwing stones at him. In fact, the scene in which Slim Pickens stumbles, wounded and mortally bleeding, to a riverside so that he can die peacefully is arguably the most moving scene ever in a motion picture. It was fabulous."[8]. If you're planning to watch it, go for the full 122 minute director's cut, which is immeasurably superior. Here's my rendition of Billy form the soundtrack, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. In the ensuing gun battle, Charlie Bowdre (Charles Martin Smith) and several other men on both sides are killed, and Billy is taken prisoner. [15] Richard Combs of The Monthly Film Bulletin was also generally favorable, declaring that "for all the deliberate—and occasionally over-schematic—summation of [Peckinpah's] previous work, Pat Garrett is remarkable for its intensity of mood (and for the growling, damped-down charisma of Coburn and Kristofferson); a singularly black and poetic evocation of a no-exit life style."[16]. The film remained something of an enigma for the next decade, with rumors flying about other versions and the nature of what had been left out of the release version. Young Guns 3 Is Happening with Emilio Estevez and Original Writer John Fusco? Pat Garrett, erstwhile travelling companion of the outlaw Billy the Kid has become a sheriff, tasked by cattle interests with ridding the territory of Billy. Pat Garrett hunted Billy the Kid down in July of the same year, working with Peter Maxwell, a host of Billy’s who betrayed him to the sheriff in the bedroom scene. 4.5 out of 5 stars 630 ratings. An old friend of Billy's, Pat Garrett (James Coburn), rides into town with Deputy Sheriff J. W. Bell (Matt Clark) and joins the diversion. The two had previously worked together on the acclaimed film Two-Lane Blacktop (1971). By chance, Horrell (Gene Evans) is hosting Garrett's new deputy, Alamosa Bill. 10 tracks (34:38). Later, over drinks, Garrett informs Billy that the electorate want him out of the country, and that in five days, when he becomes Sheriff of Lincoln County, he will make Billy leave. Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. For example, Billy was extremely naïve on the night in question. I sympathized with him. Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid may be the most beautiful and ambitious film that Sam Peckinpah ever made. Sheriff Pat Garrett shoots Henry McCarty, popularly known as Billy the Kid, to death at the Maxwell Ranch in New Mexico. "A New Aspect of Old West". However, the film grossed a total of $11 million worldwide. Get a sneak peek of the new version of this page. I asked Bob, 'Why isn't Willie famous? Ace Bonner returns to Arizona several years after he abandoned his family, Junior Bonner is a wild young man. There are some pretentious moments. It's 1881 in New Mexico, and the times they are a'changing. "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, Box Office Information", "Locations for Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid", "Awards for Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid", "Empire's 500 Greatest Movies of All Time". Peckinpah was eventually forced out of the production, and Aubrey had the film severely cut from 124 to 106 minutes, resulting in the film being released as a truncated version largely disowned by cast and crew members. Cast and crew members also came down with influenza. In Kristofferson's opinion, "Heaven's Door" "was the strongest use of music that I had ever seen in a film. You'd think the executives would have figured out that their only chance was to release the movie as Peckinpah made it; audiences were more interested in the new Peckinpah film than in still another rehash of Billy the Kid. Ebert went on to note, "Another alarming factor is that no less than six editors are credited. Aubrey began to send telegrams to the set complaining about the number of camera setups that Peckinpah used and the time spent to shoot specific scenes. "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. An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them. One of his first acts was to capture Billy the Kid, sending him to trial for the murder of the Lincoln sheriff and his deputy. "Film Reviews: Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid". AKA: Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. (1973). Olinger again argues with Billy but after J. W. Bell intervenes, Olinger leaves to get a drink. Powerful interests want New Mexico tamed for their brand of progress, and Sheriff Pat Garrett (James Coburn) is commissioned to rid the territory of his old gunfighting comrades. Mike Locken, who works for a private security firm affiliated with the C.I.A., is betrayed by his partner and left apparently crippled for life. Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid [VHS] VHS video James Coburn (Actor), Kris Kristofferson (Actor), Sam Peckinpah (Director) & Rated: R. Format: VHS Tape. [7], "Peckinpah was apt to strange behaviour and moods," Kristofferson recalled. Billy was sentenced to hang on April 13, 1881; the judge set his execution day for May 13. In a gunfight, the gang members including Black Harris (L. Q. Jones) are killed and Baker is mortally wounded. "Screen: Peckinpah's 'Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid'". Soon after completion, the film was taken away from the director and substantially re-edited, resulting in a truncated version released to theaters and largely disowned by cast and crew members. "[12] Vincent Canby of The New York Times wrote that the film "has the manner of something written for Peckinpah by a writer who'd seen 'The Wild Bunch' and vowed to give the director an important script, something worthy of his talents. Poe arrives in Roswell to find Garrett naked and in bed with several prostitutes, and confirms that Billy is in Fort Sumner. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2019 SACD release of "Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid" on Discogs. Deadliest of friends.. 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. As Billy awaits his execution in the Lincoln County Jail for the killing of Buckshot Roberts, he is taunted and beaten by self-righteous Deputy Sheriff Bob Olinger (R. G. Armstrong) while the hangman's gallows are being built nearby. Not assistant editors, but editors; this sets a modern-day record, I think. During the Cold War, a controversial television journalist is asked by the C.I.A. Peckinpah and his editors were forced into a desperate situation in order to finish on time. Garrett is riding with men working for the Santa Fe Ring, when he is ambushed and coldly killed by his associates, including one John W. Poe. The film is about an aging Pat Garrett (Coburn), hired as a lawman by a group of wealthy New Mexico cattle barons to bring down his old friend Billy the Kid (Kristofferson). This version was a box-office failure, grossing $8 million domestically,[1] of which the studio earned only $2.7 million in theatrical rentals,[9] against a budget of more than $4.6 million. "[14], Not every contemporary review was negative. Peckinpah initially considered Bo Hopkins for the part of Billy, but he eventually cast country music star Kris Kristofferson as the outlaw. Pat Garrett, erstwhile travelling companion of the outlaw Billy the Kid has become a sheriff, tasked by cattle interests with ridding the territory of Billy. Reportedly, when Dylan first arrived on the set, he and Kristofferson sat to watch dailies with Peckinpah. He stays on the porch until morning, when the townspeople of Fort Sumner, having heard the news of his death, gather to see Billy's lifeless body. After Billy escapes, Pat assembles a posse and chases him through the territory, culminating in a final confrontation at Fort Sumner, but is unaware of the full scope of the cattle interests' plans for the New West. Anticipating Garrett's arrival in Old Fort Sumner, Billy's friend Paco (Emilio Fernández) and his family leave for Mexico, soon followed by Billy. 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