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Sam Peckinpah: Pat Garrett
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Sam Peckinpah's violent, mystical Western saga focuses on the pursuit of outlaw Billy the Kid (Kris Kristofferson) by lawman Pat Garrett (James Coburn). With Jason Robards, Rita Coolidge and Bob Dylan (who ... wrote the music). 4 hrs. total. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital mono, French Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English, French, Spanish; audio commentary; featurettes; theatrical trailers. Two-disc set.
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Sam Peckinpah's violent, mystical Western saga focuses on the pursuit of outlaw Billy the Kid (Kris Kristofferson) by lawman Pat Garrett (James Coburn). With Jason Robards, Rita Coolidge and Bob Dylan (who ... wrote the music). 4 hrs. total.
Many people claim that Peckinpah did not understand what Sergio Leone was doing in languorous Westerns like Once Upon a Time in the West, but Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid proves that assessment wrong. It is a Western set at a slow blues tempo in which melancholic introspection is paced by vengeful or offhanded violence. Garrett takes his time hunting the Kid, hoping the fugitive will leave the United States for Mexico but knowing that's doubtful. Frustrated and progressively alienated from everyone, Garrett builds up and focuses his rage incrementally. James Coburn, in perhaps his most impressive performance, portrays him as a lonely man whose doubts are drowned in alcohol. Full of painful guilt and self-disdain, Garrett finally does the bloody deed and rides away alone, with a child throwing rocks at him.
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Synopsis: A former friend betrays a legendary outlaw in Sam Peckinpah's final Western. Holed up in Fort Sumner with his gang between cattle rustlings, Billy the Kid (Kris Kristofferson) ignores the advice of comrade-turned-lawman Pat Garrett (James Coburn) to escape to Mexico, and he winds up in jail inRead More
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Due to a camera defect, first reels of "Pat Garrett" were all out of focus -- Aubrey told Peckinpah to keep them that way and not to reshoot. Peckinpah snuck reshoots, and battled, scene by scene, to shoot scenes in the script that Aubrey wanted out (crucially, one in which a raft floats down a river.)
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