Moultrie

The Left Handed Gun (1958)

Actors: Denver Pyle (actor), Nestor Paiva (actor), Paul Newman (actor), Norman Leavitt (actor), Robert Anderson (actor), James Best (actor), Boyd 'Red' Morgan (actor), Lane Chandler (actor), Terry Frost (actor), Wally Brown (actor), Martin Garralaga (actor), John Dehner (actor), John Dierkes (actor), Robert Foulk (actor), Henry Rowland (actor),

Plot: William Bonney - Billy the Kid - gets a job with a cattleman known as 'The Englishman,' and is befriended by the peaceful, religious man. But when a crooked sheriff and his men murder the Englishman because he plans to supply the local Army fort with his beef, Billy decides to avenge the death by killing the four men responsible, throwing the lives of everyone around him - Tom and Charlie, two hands he worked with; Pat Garrett, who is about to be married; and the kindly Mexican couple who take him in when he's in trouble - into turmoil, and endangering the General Amnesty set up by Governor Wallace to bring peace to the New Mexico Territory.

Keywords: acoustic-guitar, ambush, amnesty, anger, based-on-true-story, based-on-tv-movie, bath, betrayal, bible, biblical-quote
Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama, Western,
Taglines: This is William Bonney, a juvenile "tough" from the back-alleys of New York... a teenager wanted dead or alive throughout the West. This is the screen's first real story of the strange teen-age desperado known to legend as "Billy the Kid"... I don't run. I don't hide. I go where I want. I do what I want. All of a sudden, just for the kicks Billy would slip down to Mexico.

Quotes:

McSween: [about the murdered Tunstall] Lord God, this was a quiet man. He lived the way a man ought to live. He did not lie. He did not hurt. He listened to any man who spoke to him.

Pat Garrett: You see I work up a sweat - to mind my own business.

Moultrie: [when he sees Billy] I knew you weren't dead!

Billy The Kid: Does that notch...? Does that stand for a man?::Joe Grant: That's what it stands for.::Billy The Kid: You had to put that there so you'd remember?::Joe Grant: That's right.::Billy The Kid: Was he asleep when you shot him?

Pat Garrett: [about the fragility of the amnesty] One shot - one ten cent bullet, and that's it!

Billy The Kid: They had me dead! That amnesty - that's for THEM! For Moon and hill and Grant! They walk around! I'm buried! They put dimes on my eyes!

Pat Garrett: This is my wedding, Billy. You try to start something, I'll take it hard.

Celsa: Stay here. They'll kill you!::Billy The Kid: They've been killin' me. Now I don't wait. I go first!::Celsa: What are you going to do?::Billy The Kid: I don't run. I don't hide. I go where I want. I DO what I want! [He puts scarf around her neck and pulls her toward him in a provocative way]

Moultrie: [to Billy] What is it? What's wrong? You all right? You're not like the books! You don't wear silver studs! You don't stand up to glory! You're not him! [crying] You're not him! You're not him!