Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid

UPC: 012569516526

Studio: Warner Home Video

MPAA Rating: R   Contains:[Graphic Violence, Adult Situations, Western Violence]

Summary: A former friend betrays a legendary outlaw in Sam Peckinpah's final Western. Holed up in Fort Sumner with his gang between cattle rustlings, Billy the Kid (Kris Kristofferson) ignores the advice of comrade-turned-lawman Pat Garrett (James Coburn) to escape to Mexico, and he winds up in jail in Lincoln, New Mexico. After Billy theatrically escapes, inspiring enigmatic Lincoln resident Alias (Bob Dylan) to join him, the governor (Jason Robards Jr.) and cattle baron Chisum (Barry Sullivan) requisition Garrett to form a posse and hunt him down. Rather than flee to Mexico when he can, Billy heads back to Fort Sumner, meeting his final destiny at the hands of his friend Pat, who, two decades later, is forced to face the consequences of his own Faustian pact with progress. With a script by Rudolph Wurlitzer, Peckinpah uses the historical basis of Billy's death to eulogize the West dreamily yet violently as it is desecrated by corrupt capitalists. Both Pat and Billy know that their time is passing, as surely as Garrett's posse knows that they are participating in a legend. Using familiar Western players like Slim Pickens and Katy Jurado, Peckinpah underscores the West's existence as a media myth, and he even appears himself as a coffin maker. Just as the bloodletting of Peckinpah's earlier The Wild Bunch (1969) invoked the Vietnam War, the casting of Kristofferson and Dylan alluded to the chaotic late '60s/early '70s present; the counterculture has little place in a corporate future. Also like The Wild Bunch, Pat Garrett was truncated by its studio; the cuts did nothing to help its box office. Key scenes, particularly the framing story of Garrett's fate, have since been restored to the home-video version. In this director's cut, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid stands as one of Peckinpah's most beautiful and complex films, killing the Western myth even as he salutes it. ~ Lucia Bozzola, Rovi

Category: Western

Features: ccCommentary by Peckinpah biographers/documentarians Nick Redman, Paul Seydor, Garner Simmons and David Weddle
Sam Peckinpah trailer gallery
2 new featurettes: deconstructing Part and Billy
One Foot in the Groove: Remembering Sam Peckinpah and other things, One For the Money and Sam's Song-original songs performed by Kris Kristofferson and Donny Fritts

Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid

Format: DVD

Release Date: 01/10/2006

Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1 2.40:1

Audio: DD1 Dolby Digital Mono

Runtime: 237 Minutes

Sides: 2

Number of Discs: 2

Language(s) English,French

Subtitles: English,French,Spanish

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: Disc #1 -- Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
1. Fowl Killings [3:51]
2. Times Have Changed [3:08]
3. Credits [1:42]
4. New Sheriff's Target [3:11]
5. In Poor Company [3:17]
6. Loco Bob [4:53]
7. Meeting Their Maker [4:37]
8. Smiling When He Left [4:05]
9. Getting a Posse Started [3:51]
10. Dead Inside [3:14]
11. Reward Rejected [3:47]
12. Holes In the Chest [7:04]
13. Baker's Badge [4:15]
14. Hideout Shootout [3:25]
15. Chisum's Regulators [3:30]
16. Garrett and Chisum [6:11]
17. Where To Next [4:00]
18. Keeping Time With Lemuel [3:05]
19. Bullet for Alamosa Bill [4:13]
20. Sociable with Garrett [1:55]
21. When You See Billy [5:15]
22. Ambushing Paco's Ambushers [2:29]
23. Garrett's Rest Stop [4:16]
24. Hope They Spell My Name Right [3:54]
25. Old Pere's House [4:44]
26. Idyll and Vigil [4:10]
27. I Killed the Kid [5:10]
28. End Credits [5:13]
Disc #2 -- Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
1. Fowl Killings [6:02]
2. Times Have Changed [4:13]
3. New Sheriff's Target [3:17]
4. In Poor Company [3:53]
5. Loco Bob [5:33]
6. Meeting Their Maker [4:38]
7. Smiling When He Left [4:26]
8. Getting a Posse Started [4:42]
9. Billy [2:02]
10. Reward Rejected [3:21]
11. Holes in the chest [5:57]
12. Baker's Badge [4:35]
13. Hideout Shootout [3:33]
14. Chisum's Regulator's [3:56]
15. Garrett and Chisum [4:38]
16. Where to Next [4:00]
17. Keeping Time With Lamuel [3:26]
18. Bullet for Alamosa Bill [:37]
19. Sociable With Garrett [4:06]
20. When You See Billy [1:25]
21. Poe's Cruel Situation [5:15]
22. Ambushing Paco's Ambushers [2:35]
23. Garrett's Rest Stop [3:09]
24. Hope They Spell My Name Right [3:58]
25. Old Pete's House [3:06]
26. Idyll and Vigil [6:48]
27. I Killed the Kid [4:10]
28. Full Circle [5:48]
29. End Credits [3:52]

Donald Guarisco

Sam Peckinpah made several meditations on the death of the Old West, but few were ever as minimalist or challenging as Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. Western fans expecting a kinetic buildup to a dramatic showdown between the title characters will be sorely disappointed: instead, Peckinpah and screenwriter Rudolph Wurlitzer go for a meditative approach where the ultimate fate of the characters is never in doubt, only the way they get there. This lateral approach actually makes for an interesting character study that succeeds thanks to strong performances from James Coburn and Kris Kristofferson; Coburn carries himself with the gravity and mordant humor of someone who knows he is betraying himself by doing the "right" thing, while Kristofferson uses his formidable reserves of charm to make Billy a charming, charismatic antihero. Best of all, Peckinpah brings the film a deep-dish sense of atmosphere and arid beauty, glorifying in the committed individualism of Billy the Kid while mourning how the passage of time made his attitude seem outdated. It's also worth noting that the beguiling mood Peckinpah weaves here is aided considerably by John Coquillion's lush photography and Bob Dylan's moody song score. The end result is a mythic, personalized Western that could have only been created by the one and only Sam Peckinpah. Thus, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid is a must for his fans and anyone interested in a good revisionist take on the Old West. ~ Donald Guarisco, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Elisha Cook, Jr.  Actor 
Katy Jurado  Actor 
Rudolph Wurlitzer  Actor 
Aurora Clavel  Actor 
Claudia Bryar  Actor 
Richard Jaeckel  Actor 
Dub Taylor  Actor 
Sam Peckinpah  Actor 
R.G. Armstrong  Actor 
Jack Dodson  Actor 
Slim Pickens  Actor 
John Beck  Actor 
Gene Evans  Actor 
Harry Dean Stanton  Actor 
L.Q. Jones  Actor 
Walter Kelley  Actor 
Rutanya Alda  Actor 
Rita Coolidge  Actor 
Michael T. Mikler  Actor 
Matt Clark  Actor 
Don Levy  Actor 
Luke Askew  Actor 
Jack Elam  Actor 
Jorge Russek  Actor 
Emilio Fernández  Actor 
Donnie Fritts  Actor 
Richard Bright  Actor 
Paul Fix  Actor 
Barry Sullivan  Actor 
Jason Robards, Jr.  Actor 
Chill Wills  Actor 
Charles Martin Smith  Actor 
John Chandler  Actor 
Rudolph Wurlitzer  Screenwriter 
Gordon Carroll  Producer 
Bob Dylan  Composer (Music Score) 
Sam Peckinpah  Director 
James Coburn  Actor 
Kris Kristofferson  Actor 
Bob Dylan  Actor 

Country: USA