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Film · 1973 · Western
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
Directed by Sam Peckinpah
1973
★ 3.6 editorial score
Bob Dylan wrote the score, appears in it, and gave the world Knockin on Heaven's Door: MGM cut Peckinpah's version to pieces, and the restoration is a great elegiac western.
“One of the most bittersweet films of Peckinpah's career: not leveling the myths of violence and male power, as he did so often, but engaging with the effect of those things on one man's life, a life that was ultimately taken away by his involvement with those myths, and the myth that grew up around his own life.”
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