Billy the Kid (1930 film)
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| Billy the Kid | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | King Vidor |
| Produced by | King Vidor Irving Thalberg |
| Written by | Walter Noble Burns (book, The Saga of Billy the Kid) Wanda Tuchock (continuity) Laurence Stallings (dialogue) Charles MacArthur (additional dialogue) |
| Starring | Johnny Mack Brown Wallace Beery Kay Johnson |
| Music by | Euphemia Allen Frederick Stahlberg |
| Cinematography | Gordon Avil |
| Release date(s) | 1930 |
| Running time | 98 min. |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
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Billy the Kid (1930) is a film about the relationship between frontier outlaw Billy the Kid (Johnny Mack Brown) and Pat Garrett (Wallace Beery), the man who later killed him. Directed by King Vidor, the movie was filmed in an early widescreen process. No widescreen prints of Billy the Kid are known to currently exist and the movie can only be viewed in a standard-width version that was filmed simultaneously.
The film was remade in color in 1941 as Billy the Kid with Robert Taylor as Billy and Brian Donlevy as a fictionalized version of Pat Garrett. The Howard Hughes version two years later, called The Outlaw and mainly serving as an introductory vehicle for Jane Russell, owes at least as much to the 1930 film, particularly in the casting of Thomas Mitchell, a superb actor who physically resembles Wallace Beery, as Garrett.
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