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The Philco Television Playhouse: The Death of Billy the Kid

Episode score 9.5 Superb

The Death of Billy the Kid

  • 246.
  • Season: 7
  • Episode: 23
  • First Aired: 7/24/1955

EPISODE OVERVIEW

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Billy the Kid worked as a ranch hand for John Tunstall who befriended Billy and was a surrogate father figure. Things changed when a sheriff's posse ambushed and murdered Tunstall which set the Kid off on a path of revenge. Billy the Kid cheated death more than once until confronted by his friend Sheriff Pat Garrett.
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Writers:
Gore Vidal
Director:
Arthur Penn
Guest Star:
Frank Overton (Pat Garrett)
Michael Conrad (Charles Boudre)
Paul Newman (Billy the Kid)
George Mitchell (Pete Maxwell)
Jason Robards (Joe Grant)
Harold J. Stone (Saval Guiterrez)
Matt Crowley (Governor Lew Wallace)
Muriel Berkson (Celsa Guiterrez)
Joseph Anthony (Drunk)
Frank Marth (Guard)
Michael Strong (John Poe)
  • Director Arthur Penn also directed the feature film version, which was his motion picture directorial debut. edit »
  • Made into the 1958 film "The Left Handed Gun" also starring Paul Newman. edit »
Show Score 6.6 superb
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