Billy the Kid (TV 1989)

Director:

William A. Graham

Writer:

Gore Vidal

Stars:

Val Kilmer, Ed Adams, Rene Auberjonois

Cast

Credited cast:
Val Kilmer	...	William Bonney
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Ed Adams	...	Posse Man
Rene Auberjonois
Andrew Bicknell	...	Tunstall
Richard Blake	...	Barman
Bing Blenman	...	Deputy Sheriff
Wilford Brimley	...	Gov. Lew Wallace
Julie Carmen	...	Celsa
Mike Casper	...	Ollinger
Jack Dunlap	...	Brady
Nate Esformes	...	Valdez
Tom Everett
Richard Glover	...	Beaver Smith
Robert Guajardo	...	Photographer (as Roberto Guajardo)
Will Hannah	...	Duli

Storyline

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Genres:

Western

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

10 May 1989 (USA)

Also Known As:

Gore Vidal's Billy the Kid

Filming Locations:

Tucson, Arizona, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Von Zerneck Sertner Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

96 min 96 min (video)

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Connections

Version of Billy the Kid (1941)

User Reviews

Dolan and the Lincoln County War

In 2008 Mark Myer and Ron Reeder made a documentary film about outlaws and gunslingers, and that is the name of the film, Outlaws and Gunslingers. It is an in-depth feature, covering renegades, guerrillas, bank robbers and such in the Old West in the United States. What is extremely interesting is this: Suppose all you know or about William Antrim or William Bonney or The Kid is derived from the TV movie "Billy the Kid". This being a documentary, the video I'm watching now, it is fascinating, and informative(depending on who you might ask). But what happened in the Turner movie actually happened according to historical evidence presented in these programs. Every character, or every man vital to the important phases of the outlaw's life is represented. Even Joe Grant(Red West), who instigates gun play with Billy The Kid is mentioned. Ipso facto, the historians are practically recanting the movie. The Kid snakes his hands out of the manacles, that is true. He also kills the deputy guarding him when Billy goes to the outhouse. Though the researchers do say that they don't know for a fact that Bonney(The Kid) killed Dolan. They also don't why Billy did not leave the country after he killed an officer near the Lincoln courthouse. As for Bonney's regulators, they were all either shot by lawmen or headed for high country. But no one seems to know for sure.