Outlawed, feared, loved - Billy the Kid

Movie
German title	Outlawed, feared, loved - Billy the Kid
Original title	Billy the Kid
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1930
length	98 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	King Vidor
script	Wanda Tuckock
production	King Vidor Irving Thalberg
music	Euphemia Allen Frederick Stahlberg
camera	Gordon Avil
cut	Hugh Wynn
occupation
Johnny Mack Brown : Billy the Kid Wallace Beery : Pat Garrett Kay Johnson : Claire Randall Karl Dane : Swenson Wyndham Standing : Jack Tunston Russell Simpson : Angus McScween Blanche Friderici : Mrs. McSween Roscoe Ates : Old Stuff Warner Richmond : Bob Ballinger James A. Marcus : William P. Donovan

Outlawed, Feared, Loved - Billy the Kid is a 1930s black and white western directed by King Vidor .

action

Rich cattle baron William Donovan hires Sheriff Pat Garrett to hunt down Garrett's old companion, Billy the Kid. He got up against Donovan and shot some of his henchmen. After Billy the Kid succeeds several times in escaping Garrett and heading for Mexico, there is a decisive showdown between the two friends.

background

Billy the Kid (real name Henry McCarty or William H. Bonney) and Pat Garrett really existed, their conflict with one another is historically documented. The film itself goes back to the novel The Saga of Billy the Kid by Walter Noble Burns .

King Vidor's version is one of the first film adaptations in history, after Laurence Trimble's short film from 1911. Numerous other films followed .

The film was shot in Lincoln County , where the real William Bonney worked. William S. Hart served as a technical advisor. It is said that lead actor Brown even used Bonney's real weapons in the film.

The film was shot in parallel in a 35 mm version and in a version with 70 mm wide screen film. The attempt to establish this format in cinemas quickly failed because the cinema operators had to invest in sound film equipment instead .

Reviews

Joe Hembus notes that the film is suffering "from the cast of the lead actor" . Billy the Kid was merely a vehicle to grant the football player Brown a leading role that had been contractually guaranteed for three years. Phil Hardy says that Billy is a real Vidor hero with his rebel attitude. The film format made it difficult for Vidor to illustrate his hero's emotional world with close-ups.

Web links

• Ostracized, feared, loved - Billy the Kid in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Phil Hardy: The Encyclopedia of Western Movies. Woodbury Press Minneapolis 1984. ISBN 0-8300-0405-X . P. 20
2. ↑ ^{a b} Joe Hembus: Western Lexicon - 1272 films from 1894-1975. Carl Hanser Verlag Munich Vienna 2nd edition 1977. ISBN 3-446-12189-7 . P. 54