The Left-Handed Gun This psychological Western stars Paul Newman as Billy, portrayed here as a tortured youth haunted by trauma. Based on a teleplay by Gore Vidal, the film rejects folk-hero romanticism in favor of a Freudian case study in alienation and rage....
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid: The 50th Anniversary Cut (1973/2023) Sam Peckinpah’s haunting Western tells the story of lawman Pat Garrett (James Coburn) and his fateful pursuit of Billy the Kid (Kris Kristofferson). The film is as much about the passing of the Old...
Billy the Kid (1930) Director King Vidor’s early talkie captures the raw energy of emerging sound cinema and the fading frontier. Johnny Mack Brown plays Billy with a mix of boyish charm and deadly skill, while Wallace Beery brings gruff authority to Pat...
Chisum (1970) John Wayne stars as cattle baron John Chisum in this sweeping account of the Lincoln County War. Directed by Andrew V. McLaglen, the film frames the conflict through the eyes of the establishment, portraying Chisum as a principled patriarch battling...
Young Guns (1988) The Brat Pack heads west in this stylish, high-energy reimagining of the Lincoln County War. When their beloved employer is murdered, a group of young gunfighters led by the charismatic but unstable Billy the Kid (Emilio Estevez) find themselves on...
