Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid is a 1973 American Western drama film directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring James Coburn, Kris Kristofferson, and Bob Dylan, and written by Rudy Wurlitzer. The film is about an aging Pat Garrett, hired as a lawman by a group of wealthy New Mexico cattle barons to bring down his old friend Billy the Kid.
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. An old friend of Billys, Pat Garrett James Coburn, rides into town with Deputy Sheriff J.W. Bell Matt Clark and joins the diversion. 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, hell make Billy leave.Six days later, Garrett and his deputies surround the small farmhouse where Billy and his gang are holed up. In the ensuing gun battle, Charlie Bowdre Charles Martin Smith and several other men on both sides are killed, and Billy is taken prisoner. As Billy awaits his execution in the Lincoln County Jail for the killing of Buckshot Roberts, he is taunted and beaten by selfrighteous Deputy Sheriff Bob Ollinger R.G. Armstrong while the hangmans gallows are being built nearby. After J.W. Bell intervenes, Ollinger leaves to get a drink. Billy finds a gun hidden for him in the outhouse and gets the drop on Bell, shooting him in the back. He quickly retrieves Ollingers shotgun loaded with sixteen thin dimes and shoots Ollinger dead in the street, saying, Keep the change, Bob. ........
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