Sam Peckinpah’s final western, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, is a counterculture masterpiece, a beautiful, ambitious and melancholy tale offriendship and betrayal with Kris Kristofferson as the legendary outlaw and James Coburn as the gunman-turned-sheriff hired to track down his former friend. Featuring an amazing cast of character actors, poetic photography and a Grammy-nominated acoustic Bob Dylan soundtrack, the film remains a haunting elegy to the Old West. Presented in its 106 minute original theatrical release version
“Like Ford’s The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, it both records and condemns the passage of time and the advent of progress; and there is a sombre, mournful quality which places [Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid] very high up in the league of great westerns.” – Time Out
