Episode 351: Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973)

The Projection Booth

Tv & Film, Film Interviews, Film Reviews, Film History

4.6 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2018

⏱️ 172 minutes

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Summary

Released in 1973 in a truncated form, Sam Peckinpah’s Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid has had a long, contentious history. We’ll be talking about that as well as the film itself in which Kris Kristofferson plays the titular Billy the Kid. He’s the friend and eventual enemy of James Coburn as Pat Garrett. The film stars a host of familiar faces and character actors with this speaking to the passing of the torch from one generation of Westerns to the next... Or perhaps snuffing that flame.

Author Mike Faloon and artist David Lambert join Mike discuss Peckinpah's film. Interviews include screenwriter Rudy Wurlitzer (Two Lane Blacktop), Bob Dylan scholar David Wolf, and author/editor Paul Seydor (The Authentic Death and Contentious Afterlife of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid: The Untold Story of Peckinpah's Last Western Film).
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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.
0:04.5	Christopher Media. Let's make some noise.
0:07.2	William H. Bonnie. He killed 21 men.
0:10.4	I don't want to kill you, Bill.
0:12.1	No, I sure hope you don't, Billy.
0:14.6	And he was just a kid. Billy the kid.
0:20.9	You take this.
0:24.0	My luck for him good.
0:25.8	Patrick F. Garrett.
0:27.6	He was the most dangerous outlaw in the territory.
0:34.6	So they made him sheriff.
0:36.7	It's pretty fair a shooting for an old married man.
0:39.3	Just luck, I guess how he gets.
0:40.3	Pat Garrett had just one friend, Billy the kid, and just one job.
0:46.3	Kill him.
0:48.3	Now Sam Pekinpaw, the director who unleashed the wild bunch, takes a hard new look at two old friends,
0:57.0	Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. They were legends in their own time.
1:02.0	Times have changed. Times maybe. Not me.
1:07.0	Get to it.
1:10.0	One. Get to it One
1:14.3	Two
1:15.6	Three
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