Grizzled outlaw-turned-lawman Pat Garrett is hired by a group of wealthy cattle barons to track down his former friend, the youthful bandit Billy the Kid. Set against a haunting soundtrack by co-star Bob Dylan, Sam Peckinpah’s final western is a poignant meditation on integrity and freedom, casting the killing of Billy the Kid as one of the defining death knells of the mythic Old West.

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Reviews

‘Where Wild Bunch used brute force, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid favours elegy; the effect is less shattering, but the tone of savoured melancholy is just as haunting.’
Philip Struck, Sight & Sound Magazine

‘Much of the film is sprawling and episodic in structure, but achieves a saving tightness in the final reel or so which could well be accounted one of the best things the director has achieved for some time.’
Derek Malcolm, The Guardian