Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 115 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Strong
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
The story
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.
- sheriff
- gore
- aging
- lawlessness
- breast
- gun battle
- old friends
- flogging
- pat garrett
- manhunt
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
James Coburn
Pat Garrett
Kris Kristofferson
Billy the Kid
Richard Jaeckel
Sheriff Kip McKinney
Katy Jurado
Mrs. Baker
- Chill Wills — Lemuel
- Barry Sullivan — Chisum
- Jason Robards — Governor Wallace
- Bob Dylan — Alias
- R.G. Armstrong — Ollinger
- Luke Askew — Eno
- John Beck — Poe
- Richard Bright — Holly
- Matt Clark — J.W. Bell
- Rita Coolidge — Maria
- Jack Dodson — Howland
- Directed
- Sam Peckinpah
- Written
- Rudy Wurlitzer
Production
- Rating
- 7.2 / 10 · 477 ratings
- Studio
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
