Billy the Kid (1941 film)

Billy the Kid

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Directed by David Miller
Produced by Irving Asher
Written by Walter Noble Burns (book)
Gene Fowler
Howard Emmett Rogers
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Starring Robert Taylor
Brian Donlevy
Music by Aaron Copland
Cinematography William V. Skall
Leonard Smith
Editing by Robert Kern
Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Country United States
Language English

Billy the Kid is a 1941 American color remake of the 1930 film of the same name. The film features Robert Taylor as Billy and Brian Donlevy as a fictionalized version of Pat Garrett renamed "Jim Sherwood" in the film. Directed by David Miller and based on the book by Walter Noble Burns, the cast also included Gene Lockhart and Lon Chaney, Jr..[1] The film was not as well received as the 1930 original, Billy the Kid, which had starred Johnny Mack Brown and Wallace Beery and been shot in an experimental widescreen process.

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  1. ^ Bosley Crowther (June 20, 1941). "NY Times review". New York Times. http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9C01E5D6143FE13BBC4851DFB066838A659EDE. Retrieved 15 November, 2008. 

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