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Sam Peckinpah’s cycle of genre-redefining westerns came to a close with this blood and dust-caked elegy for the American West, which marries his renegade style with a fatalistic sense of finality. As newly minted lawman Pat Garrett (James Coburn) stalks the outlaw Billy the Kid (Kris Kristofferson) across the plains, their old friendship is twisted into rivalry, and mythic ideals of freedom come up against an emerging ruling-class order—all to the strains of a haunting soundtrack by Bob Dylan (who also appears as the mercurial Alias). Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid - presented here for the first time in three separate versions - stands as perhaps the maverick auteur’s richest, most mature work, a world-weary ballad that bears the solemn weight of history passing into legend.

The preview cut that will be available on The Criterion Collection's upcoming release of PAT GARRETT & BILLY THE KID is not Turner's, but Sam Peckinpah's final and never before seen preview cut, recovered and restored specifically for this release - the closest we have to a director's cut of the film that we will ever get. Its 2k restoration will be included in the blu-ray, along work a 4k (and tweaked) 50th-anniversary restoration of the final cut and the theatrical cut. Here's the story: A "heist" was engineered to get Peckinpah's final preview print out of the projection room where it was screened for MGM execs. Sam was walking off the picture, and a Watergate-esque "break-in" was orchestrated by those who felt that Sam's preview needed to be preserved. Unfortunately, the clean up crew didn't realize that it was an interlock print. Sound and picture were separate, so they grabbed the picture and left the sound behind whose retrieval required another mission. But all missions were ultimately successful. When Sam was presented with the print, he was so paranoid that MGM was going to come after it that he put a fake title (The Racquet Club) on the cans and leader. It's never been released until now, because it was among Sam's personal prints, not in the studio vaults.

- Sam Peckinpah Facebook page

IMDB

Code:TITLE...........: Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973) Final Preview Cut
STARS...........: James Coburn, Kris Kristofferson, Richard Jaeckel, Bob Dylan
DIRECTOR........: Sam Peckinpah
WRITERS.........: Rudy Wurlitzer
GENRE...........: Western, Biography, Drama
METASCORE.......: 53/85
TOMATOMETER.....: 57/82
IMDB SCORE......: 7.2
IMDB LINK.......: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070518
RUNTIME.........: 2h 2mn
SIZE............: 7.87 GB
VIDEO CODEC.....: HEVC (Main10@L4)
BITRATE.........: 9000 Kbps (2-pass)
RESOLUTION......: 1920x820
ASPECT RATIO....: 2.35:1
FRAMERATE.......: 23.976 fps
AUDIO...........: English FLAC 1.0
SUBTITLES.......: ENG
SOURCE..........: Criterion Blu-ray, Warner DVD
ENCODE DATE.....: 2024-07-11
MD5 CHECKSUM....: 25c7d932a11cff80b4ec9376bf01c98a

Extras

• Dylan in Durango (2024)
• Passion & Poetry: Peckinpah’s Last Western (2024)
• Champlin on Film: James Coburn
• TV spots
• Trailer
• Deconstructing Pat and Billy [Warner]
• One Foot in the Groove: Remembering Peckinpah and Other Things [Warner]
• One for the Money: Sam's Song [Warner]