Billy the Kid (1941 film)

Billy the Kid is a 1941 American color remake of the 1930 film of the same name. The film features Robert Taylor as Billy and Brian Donlevy as a fictionalized version of Pat Garrett renamed Jim Sherwood in the film. Directed by David Miller and based on the book by Walter Noble Burns, the cast also included Gene Lockhart and Lon Chaney, Jr.. The film was not as well received as the 1930 original, Billy the Kid, which had starred Johnny Mack Brown and Wallace Beery and been shot in an experimental widescreen process.

Later, Billy and Pedro go back to a saloon from which Pedro was thrown out earlier by the locals because of his ethnicity. One of the cattle barons, Dan Hickey Gene Lockhart, recognizes Billy and hires him to scare up some farmers into joining Hickeys business. Billy and the rest of Hickeys men start a stampede among the farmers cattle, wreaking havoc and creating chaos. A farmer is killed during the stampede, and afterwards Billy feels guilty of what he has done.During the stampede, Billy encounters one of his childhood friends, Jim Sherwood Brian Donlevy, who works for a man named Eric Keating Ian Hunter. Jim arranges for Billy and Pedro to come and work for the nonviolent Keating instead of the violent Hickey. ........

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