Billy the Kid is a 1930 American film directed by King Vidor about the relationship between frontier outlaw Billy the Kid (Johnny Mack Brown, billed as "John Mack Brown") and Pat Garrett (Wallace Beery), the man who later killed him.
Directed by King Vidor, the movie was filmed in an early widescreen process called Realife, a 70mm format similar to Fox's Grandeur used for the lavish The Big Trail the same year.
While The Big Trail, starring John ...
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Billy the Kid is a 1930 American film directed by King Vidor about the relationship between frontier outlaw Billy the Kid (Johnny Mack Brown, billed as "John Mack Brown") and Pat Garrett (Wallace Beery), the man who later killed him.
Directed by King Vidor, the movie was filmed in an early widescreen process called Realife, a 70mm format similar to Fox's Grandeur used for the lavish The Big Trail the same year.
While The Big Trail, starring John Wayne, has been restored so that the 1930 widescreen process can be evaluated by modern viewers, no widescreen prints of Billy the Kid are known to currently exist and the movie can only be viewed in a standard-width version that was filmed simultaneously. Widescreen did not get a foothold until The Robe two decades later.
The film was remade in color in 1941 as Billy the Kid with Robert Taylor as Billy and Brian Donlevy as a fictionalized version of Pat Garrett. The Howard Hughes version two years later, called The Outlaw and mainly serving...
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