Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid

Best of enemies. Deadliest of friends.

1973115 min7.2 / 10

A elegiac Western about the tragic collision between old friends bound by loyalty and circumstance, exploring the death of an era and the moral cost of civilization's advance.

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.

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