Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (Criterion Collection)

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (1973)

715515298018

7.2

22,699

Biography | Drama | Western

USA | English | Color | 02:02

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Pat Garrett is hired as a lawman on behalf of a group of wealthy New Mexico cattle barons to bring down his old friend Billy the Kid.

Cast View all

	James Coburn	Pat Garrett
	Kris Kristofferson	Billy The Kid
	Richard Jaeckel	Sheriff Kip McKinney
	Katy Jurado	Mrs. Baker
	Chill Wills	Lemuel
	Barry Sullivan	Chisum
	Jason Robards	Governor Wallace
	Bob Dylan	Alias
	R.G. Armstrong	Ollinger
	Luke Askew	Eno
	John Beck	Poe
	Richard Bright	Holly
	Matt Clark	J.W. Bell
	Rita Coolidge	Maria
	Jack Dodson	Howland
	Jack Elam	Alamosa Bill
	Emilio Fernández	Paco
	Paul Fix	Maxwell
	L.Q. Jones	Black Harris
	Slim Pickens	Sheriff Cullen Baker
	Jorge Russek	Silva
	Charles Martin Smith	Bowdre
	Harry Dean Stanton	Luke
	Claudia Bryar	Mrs. Horrell
	John Davis Chandler	Norris

Crew View all

Director	Sam Peckinpah
Writer	Rudy Wurlitzer
Producer	Gordon Carroll
Musician	Bob Dylan
Photography	John Coquillon

Trailer

Edition details

Edition	The Criterion Collection
Packaging	Digipak
Nr Discs	4
Screen Ratios	Theatrical Widescreen (2.35:1)
Audio Tracks	LPCM Mono [English]
Subtitles	English (SDH)
Distributor	The Criterion Collection
Layers	Single side, Triple layer
Regions	Region A \| Region Free

Personal

Quantity	1
Index	2739
Added Date	Dec 29, 2024 14:20:53
Modified Date	Jun 23, 2025 22:47:48

Notes

Christmas 2024 gift from Beth

Sam Peckinpah’s cycle of genre-redefining westerns came to a close with this blood- and dust-caked elegy for the American West, which marries his renegade style with a fatalistic sense of finality. As newly minted lawman Pat Garrett (James Coburn) stalks the outlaw Billy the Kid (Kris Kristofferson) across the plains, their old friendship is twisted into rivalry, and mythic ideals of freedom come up against an emerging ruling-class order—all to the strains of a haunting soundtrack by Bob Dylan (who also appears as the mercurial Alias). Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid—presented here for the first time in three separate versions—stands as perhaps the maverick auteur’s richest, most mature work, a world-weary ballad that bears the solemn weight of history passing into legend.

New 4K digital restoration of the 50th Anniversary Release, supervised by editors Paul Seydor and Roger Spottiswoode, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
New 4K digital restoration of the Original Theatrical Release, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
Audio commentary for the 50th Anniversary Release featuring Seydor, Spottiswoode, and critic Michael Sragow
Two 4K UHD discs of the films presented in Dolby Vision HDR and two Blu-rays with the films and special features
New 2K digital master of director Sam Peckinpah’s Final Preview Cut, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
Dylan in Durango, a new interview with author Clinton Heylin about the film’s soundtrack
Passion & Poetry: Peckinpah’s Last Western, a new documentary by Mike Siegel about the making of the film
Archival interview with actor James Coburn
Trailer and TV spots
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
PLUS: An essay by author Steve Erickson