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Synopsis: William Bonney - Billy the Kid - gets a job with a cattleman known as 'The Englishman,' and is befriended by the peaceful, religious man. But when a crooked sheriff and his men murder the Englishman because he plans to supply the local Army fort with his beef, Billy decides to avenge the death by killing the four men responsible, throwing the lives of everyone around him - Tom and Charlie, two hands he worked with; Pat Garrett, who is about to be married; and the kindly Mexican couple who take him in when he's in trouble - into turmoil, and endangering the General Amnesty set up by Governor Wallace to bring peace to the New Mexico Territory.
Genre: Western
Director(s): Arthur Penn
Production: Warner Bros. Pictures
  1 win.
 
IMDB:
6.5
Rotten Tomatoes:
88%
APPROVED
Year:
1958
102 min
99 Views


- Where?

I don't know. Out there.

I have to ride in, Billy.

I'll go with you. You need a gun.

No, I don't want you.

Front and back.

Guess we should take him into Lincoln.

His horse is dead.

Put him over my horse.

No.

Mine.

It's past midnight.

Billy can stay in the side room.

I'll stay here.

He liked you, Billy.

Said you had a good mind.

Said you were quick.

Asked good questions.

He gave me this. See?

"Corinthians."

I can't read.

Lord God...

...this was a quiet man.

He lived the way a man ought to live.

He did not lie.

He did not hurt.

He listened to any

man who spoke to him.

I told him.

I told him I heard something.

He had to go to Lincoln.

Mr. McSween, I gotta do something.

You'll find work.

No, not work. Something...

It's not your place.

I got to...

You're not his kin.

- You didn't know him.

- I knew him.

Nobody did.

Not close. Not even me.

- I knew him.

- He was a man to himself.

Billy.

Billy, you can stay with me.

I'll be bringing in the herds.

Listen, Billy.

Listen to me.

The other way is against God.

When I was a child,

I spoke as a child.

I understood as a child.

I thought as a child.

But when I became a man,

I put away childish things.

For now, he sees

through a glass darkly...

...but then, face to

face, now I know in part...

...but then shall I know

even as also I am known.

Go! Get up there!

Get up there!

- Sir, yes, sir.

- Got no sorrows!

Your worked for Mr. Tunstall.

- No sorrows.

- Nice funeral.

There, keep it coming. One for

the machine and one for a drink.

One there, one here.

Mr. Bonney, you can

depend on Mr. Moultrie.

Mr. Bonney.

I want you to know how sorry I

feel about your late employer.

He was a gentleman. We had

men like him in the South.

I didn't fight in the war.

I was sickly.

Keep it coming. I want

to hear it up in my room.

- How far to Madero?

- One night.

- State your name.

- Garrett.

- How's that?

- Garrett. Pat Garrett.

Bonney.

Little case of the quick jump.

Somebody gonna get

his head clipped off.

Garrett. Pat Garrett.

- Who's he?

- William Bonney.

One of the Tunstall boys.

- You'd think they'd have more respect.

- Respect?

Mr. Tunstall was laid

to rest this morning.

Cut that thing off!

Rally around the flag!

Tie me down!

- Rally around the flag!

- Rally around the flag!

Oh, man, you really

took a bite out of me.

Draw a woman.

At that funeral, I listened.

I heard flies on the window pane,

and then I heard voices mumbling.

Brady and Morton.

I got all four names.

You don't know?

I know.

Sheriff Brady, Mr.

Morton, Moon and Hill.

The sheriff?

- You can't.

- I can.

You can't shoot a sheriff.

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Leslie Stevens

For the editor of the United Kingdom Dictionary of National Biography and father of Virginia Woolf, see Sir Leslie Stephen.Leslie Clark Stevens IV (February 3, 1924 – April 24, 1998) was an American producer, writer, and director. He created two television series for the ABC network. The Outer Limits (1963–1965) and Stoney Burke (1962–63) and Search (1972–73) for NBC. Stevens was the director of the horror film Incubus (1966), which stars William Shatner, and was the second film to use the Esperanto language. He wrote an early work of New Age philosophy, est: The Steersman Handbook (1970). more…

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