The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean

The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean is a 1972 American western film written by John Milius, directed by John Huston, and starring Paul Newman at the height of his career, between Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and The Sting. It was loosely based on the reallife, selfappointed frontier judge.

A young woman named Maria Elena finds and helps him. Bean promptly returns to town and shoots all those who did him wrong. With no law and order, he appoints himself judge and the law west of the Pecos and becomes the townspeoples patrone.Bean renames the saloon The Jersey Lilly and hangs a portrait of a woman he worships but has never met, Lillie Langtry, a noted actress and singer of the 1890s. When a band of thieves come to town Big Bart Jackson and gang members Nick the Grub, Fermel Parlee and Whorehouse Lucky Jim, rather than oppose them, Bean swears them in as lawmen. The new marshals round up other outlaws, then claim their money after Bean sentences them to hang. ........

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