Billy The Kid

Very early wide-screen (70mm) western directed by Vidor and starring Brown as the Kid and Beery as Pat Garrett. Filled with historical inaccuracies (including an ending that has Beery waving and smiling as he allows the Kid and his girl to escape, instead of gunning the Kid down as his real-life counterpart did), the film is notable for the participation of silent cowboy star William S. Hart, who served as a technical advisor on the shoot, and led the producers to the actual locations in New Mexico where the historical events took place. These touches of realism give the film a gritty, true-to-life look that was rare for westerns of that period. The plot concerns B...