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Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780790746005
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 079074600X
Item Dimensions: 20
Label: Warner Home Video
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 1.0EnglishSubtitledSpanishSubtitledFrenchSubtitled
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
MPN: WARD65165D
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: January 10, 2006
Running Time: 237 minutes
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1973
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 05/23/2006 Rating: R
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Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid may be the most beautiful and ambitious film that Sam Peckinpah ever made. The time is 1881. Powerful interests want New Mexico tamed for their brand of progress, and Sheriff Pat Garrett (James Coburn) is commissioned to rid the territory of his old gunfighting comrades. He serves fair notice to William Bonney--Billy the Kid (Kris Kristofferson)--and his Fort Sumter cronies, but it's not in their nature, or his, to go quietly. Peckinpah's theme, more than ever, is the closing of the frontier and the nature of the loss that that entails. But this time his vision takes him beyond genre convention, beyond history and legend, to the bleeding heart of myth--and surely of himself.
This is one strange and original movie. In 1973 most American reviewers responded by panning it and deriding its director, whom they saw as having betrayed the promise of Ride the High Country, been swept up in his own cult of violence, and become incoherent as a storyteller. Coherence wasn't helped by MGM's cutting at least a quarter-of-an-hour out of the finished film and removing a bitter, retrospective prelude. Subsequent releases have restored a lot of material, and now there's more widespread appreciation of the depth and power of Peckinpah's achievement.
The cast, teeming with fine character actors, is extraordinary, making the gallery of frontier denizens vivid and resonant. Coburn's Garrett, a man who comes to loathe himself for his mission yet cannot abandon it, is the high-water mark of the actor's career. L.Q. Jones, Luke Askew, Harry Dean Stanton, Jack Elam, and Richard Bright create indelible moments, and Slim Pickens becomes the center of an unforgettably moving scene. The presence of Kristofferson (just starting out as an actor) and Bob Dylan (whose enigmatic role is nearly wordless) nudges us toward recognizing Old West outlawry as an early form of rock stardom--flesh-and-blood gods for a primitive society to feed on. --Richard T. Jameson
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Rating:  -
What to say about this movie? First, I watched disc 2, the 1988 Turner preview version. That was more than enough. I don't claim to be a Peckinpah expert so let me come at this from a 'non-expert's' point of view - I've only seen two other movies by Peckinpah, Straw Dogs and The Killer Elite. I liked the former but not the latter so I know he's capable of films I like and don't like. I didn't much care for this movie, though I can recognize a certain amount of quality that went into the filming ... Read More
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I had heard so much about this movie and love the music that Bob Dylan wrote for it. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Some of my favorite actors were in it, and I've always loved Westerns. But for me personally, the best part was getting to see Bob act and to see the scenes that he wrote the music for.
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Pat Garrett's director cut was the last Western of Sam Peckinpah. In certain way, this entry was an honor debt for this unforgettable. To get close to the most famed duel the West reminded.
The implacable prosecution of Garrett behind Billy's traces, the double moral when Billy reminds Garrett was on the other side of the law. The badge marks the difference.
The script depicts the Faustian attitude of Garrett when he decides to join forces with the Governor and entrepreneurs ... Read More
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I bought this mainly because of Dylan's Knockin' on Heaven's Door. Not a bad movie with a great cast of character actors.
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Just a great western flick to watch from time to time... Almost historically accurate... artistic license covers that. Billy the Kid was a little guy, thats why he had to fight well, so Kris is the artistic tangent... other than that, I didn't know Bob Dylan was that old...
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