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Podcast: The Projection Booth Podcast
Episode: Episode 351: Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973)
Description: Released in 1973 in a truncated form, Sam Peckinpah’s Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid has had a long, contentious history. We’ll be talking about that as well as the film itself in which Kris Kristofferson plays the titular Billy the Kid. He’s the friend and eventual enemy of James Coburn as Pat Garrett. The film stars a host of familiar faces and character actors with this speaking to the passing of the torch from one generation of Westerns to the next... Or perhaps snuffing that flame.Author Mike Faloon and artist David Lambert join Mike discuss Peckin...