Billy the Kid

Billy the Kid (1941)

WANTED FOR MURDER WILLIAM BONNEY ALIAS "BILLY THE KID"

Billy "The Kid" Bonney is a hot-headed gunslinger who postpones his life of crime when he is befriended and hired by peaceful cattle rancher Eric Keating. When Keating is killed by a rival, Billy seeks revenge, even if it means opposing his old friend, Marshal Jim Sherwood.

Date of release
1941-05-30
TMDB
5.3 / 10 (25)
Runtime
1h 34m
Genres
Drama, Western
Director
David Miller

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Utah
  • Awards: 0 · Nominations: 1

Billy the Kid is a 1941 American Western film, a color remake of the 1930 film of the same name. The film features Robert Taylor as Billy and Brian Donlevy as a fictionalized version of Pat Garrett renamed "Jim Sherwood" in the film. Directed by David Miller and based on the book by Walter Noble Burns, the cast also included Gene Lockhart and Lon Chaney Jr. The film was not as well received as the 1930 original, Billy the Kid, which had starred Johnny Mack Brown and Wallace Beery and been shot in an experimental widescreen process.

Production

Parts of the film were shot in Monument Valley.

Both Taylor and Donlevy were ten years older than the real Billy and Pat were in 1880, the year the film begins.

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