Billy the Kid (1930 film)

Billy the Kid is a 1930 American PreCode film directed in widescreen by King Vidor about the relationship between frontier outlaw Billy the Kid Johnny Mack Brown, billed as John Mack Brown and Pat Garrett Wallace Beery, the man who later killed him.

While The Big Trail, starring John Wayne, has been restored so that the 1930 widescreen process can be evaluated by modern viewers, no widescreen prints of Billy the Kid are known to currently exist and the movie can only be viewed in a standardwidth version that was filmed simultaneously. Widescreen did not get a commercial foothold until The Robe two decades later.In some newspaper ads, the more familiar Beery, a major star and frequent supporting player since the teens during the silent era, was accorded top billing over young Brown but not in the main posters. Within two years Beery had contractually become MGMs highest paid actor while John Mack Brown was rechristened Johnny Mack Brown and demoted into BWesterns. ........

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