Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid

Best of enemies. Deadliest of friends.

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Release Date

5/23/1973

Runtime

106 mins

Overview

Pat Garrett is hired as a lawman on behalf of a group of wealthy New Mexico cattle barons to bring down his old friend Billy the Kid.

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$4,638,783

Revenue

$11,000,000

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A elegiac western that treats the manhunt between two aging gunfighters as a meditation on loyalty and the price of survival. Peckinpah finds tragedy in the erosion of an old friendship against the machinery of institutional power.

Mood

MelancholicDefiantTense

Themes

FriendshipBetrayalMortalityPower

Tone

Bleak

Pacing

Slow-burn

Look

NaturalisticHigh-contrast

Structure

Linear

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Graphic violence

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