Billy the kid

The Resource Billy the kid
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Billy the kid
Statement of responsibility
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents ; a King Vidor production ; directed by King Vidor
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Language
eng
Summary
  • The Kid's legend comes to talkies! Bad blood is spilling over in Lincoln County. William Bonney has sworn revenge against the men who murdered his boss. Filmmaker King Vidor brought the bigger-than-life legend of Bonney -- Billy the Kid -- to the screen in a big way, using a rare widescreen process (unfortunately, wide prints are no longer known to exist) and filming some of the action in New Mexico locales known to the outlaw. John Mack Brown portrays the Kid, single-mindedly pursuing his vow of payback and eluding death several times (including a gun-blazing escape from a hacienda inferno). Would the Kid also elude Sheriff Pat Garrett (Wallace Beery)? The film's denouement undoubtedly delighted some moviegoers and riled others. The saddles and sidearms of a cowboy's stock-in-trade would serve Brown, then a newcomer to the Western genre, for years to come. From the mid-1930s into the 1950s, he was a mainstay of Western B-films and serials. - Container
  • Bad blood is spilling over in Lincoln County: William Bonney, aka Billy the Kid, has sworn revenge against the men who murdered his boss. Filmmaker King Vidor brought the bigger-than-life legend to the screen in a big way, using a rare widescreen process and filming some of the action in New Mexico with locales known to the outlaw
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CLE
Characteristic
videorecording
Credits note
Director of photography, Gordon Avil ; editor, Hugh Wynn ; continuity by Wanda Tuchock ; dialogue by Laurence Stallings, additional dialogue by Charles MacArthur
Dewey number
791.43/72
LC call number
PN1997
LC item number
.B55 2012
PerformerNote
John Mack Brown, Wallace Beery, Kay Johnson, Karl Dane, Wyndham Standing, Russell Simpson, Blanche Frederici
Runtime
95
Series statement
WB Home Entertainment Group archive collection
Technique
live action

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