Billy the Kid Wanted (1941)
ジャンル : 西洋
上映時間 : 1時間 1分
演出 : Sam Newfield
脚本 : Fred Myton
シノプシス
Billy the Kid (Buster Crabbe) and his pal Jeff (Dave O'Brien) help their friend Fuzzy Jones (Al St. John) escape from jail, and the trio heads for Paradise Valley, where they find the Paradise Land Development Company, ran by Matt Brawley (Glenn Strange) and Jack Saunders (Charles King), is somewhat less than honest in their dealings with the homesteaders. They devise a plan to cause a split between Brawley and Saunders.
Pat Garrett is hired as a lawman on behalf of a group of wealthy New Mexico cattle barons to bring down his old friend Billy the Kid.
舞台は1878年のニューメキシコ。タンストールの牧場には若き日のビリー・ザ・キッドと5人の若者たちがいた。80年代当時の若手スターが結集し、“ネオ西部劇”と呼ばれた、クリストファー・ケイン監督作品。
ジョン・ウェイン主演で、西部開拓時代の英雄ジョン・シンプソン・チザムの活躍を描く西部劇。監督は「シェナンドー河」「大いなる男たち」のアンドリュー・V・マクラグレン。1878年。ニューメキシコ。広大な牧畜王国を築き、“ペコスの王者”の異名を持つジョン・シンプソン・チザム。一方、町で急速に台頭していたローレンス・マーフィーは、数々の悪質な手口でその勢力を拡大していく。やがて、両者は激しい抗争を繰り広げるのだった。
歴史で落第しかかった二人はなぜかタイムマシンに乗って原始から未来までかけめぐり、ソクラテス、ナポレオン、ベートーヴェンその他を現在に連れてきて、試験パスを目論むのだが……。リーヴスとウィンターのおバカ高校生コンビを一躍全米の人気者にした荒唐無稽コメディ。
西部史に残る伝説を斬新に描いた青春ウエスタンの続編。西部開拓期の無法者ビリー・ザ・キッドの誕生秘話を描いた前作に続き、本作でも英雄物語の後日譚が想像力豊かに綴られていく。主題歌はボン・ジョヴィ「ブレイズ・オブ・グローリー」。
New Mexico Territory, 1880. Rio Cutler and his older sister Sara must abandon their home after an unfortunate event happens. In their desperate flee to Santa Fe, they cross paths with the infamous outlaw Billy the Kid and his gang, who are ruthlessly pursued by a posse led by Sheriff Pat Garret.
西部史に名高い“ビリー・ザ・キッド”の内面に迫った異色のウェスタン。恩人を殺されたビリーは、牧童の仕事を捨て、復讐のために拳銃を手にする。やがて彼は仇を討つが、拳銃を手放すことはしなかった。そしてそれは、彼を破滅の道へと導いていく……。史実を大胆に脚色し、P・ニューマンがビリーをニューロティックに演じる。
Newly appointed sheriff Pat Garrett is pleased when his old friend Doc Holliday arrives in Lincoln, New Mexico on the stage. Doc is trailing his stolen horse, and it is discovered in the possession of Billy the Kid. In a surprising turnaround, Billy and Doc become friends. This causes the friendship between Doc and Pat to cool. The odd relationship between Doc and Billy grows stranger when Doc hides Billy at his girl Rio's place after Billy is shot.
US Marshall Vance is assigned to rid the Oklahoma Territory of outlaws.
Billy, after shooting down land baron William Donovan's henchmen for killing Billy's boss, is hunted down and captured by his friend, Sheriff Pat Garrett. He escapes and is on his way to Mexico when Garrett, recapturing him, must decide whether to bring him in or to let him go.
Dracula travels to the American West, intent on making a beautiful ranch owner his next victim. Her fiance, outlaw Billy the Kid, finds out about it and rushes to save her.
After Pat Garrett kills Billy the Kid, Billy's look-alike Roy Rogers arrives and is mistaken for him. Although a murderer, Billy was on the side of the homesteaders against the large ranchers. As Billy's death is unknown, Roy gets Garrett to let him pose as Billy to continue the fight, but without the killing.
In a California memorabilia shop in 2010, collector Randy Guijarro bought a tintype that looked to be a familiar figure, Billy the Kid - playing croquet with his gang known as The Regulators. As the gravity of the discovery began to set in, Guijarro initiated a chain of events that would lead him on a painstaking journey to verify the photograph's authenticity.
Billy the Kid becomes embroiled in Lincoln County, NM, land wars. When rancher who gave him a break is killed by rival henchman, Billy vows revenge. New employer takes advantage of his naivety to kill rivals, lets the Kid take rap. Kid takes to the hills with friends until caught. Escapes hanging but remains in area to be near employer's young wife with whom he's infatuated
Billy the Kid is framed for murder.
Gore Vidal's historical novel is brought to life in this television production of Turner Network Television's Billy the Kid.
Billy Bonney is a hot-headed gunslinger who narrowly skirts a life of crime by being befriended and hired by a peaceful rancher, Eric Keating. When Keating is killed, Billy seeks revenge on the men who killed him, even if it means opposing his friend, Marshal Jim Sherwood.
Stanton breaks Billy and his two friends Fuzzy and Jeff out of jail. He wants them free so three of his men can impersonate them for the robberies and murders he has planned.
Billy Carson, looking for rustlers, kills Bradley in a gun fight. Arrested, the judge finds him innocent but jails him anyway. When the rustling resumes he is released and posing as a Mexican cattle buyer he hopes to trap the culprits.
In the first of the six films Bob Steele made in PRC's "Billy the Kid" series, gun law rules in Lincoln County, New Mexico in 1972, where Sam Daly and Pete Morgan operate a general store. Daly expects to be elected sheriff and he and Morgan intend to bring off a final big coup and then disappear. To further their plans, they have local ranchers such as the Bennett brothers killed. Billy Bonney and his friends Fuzzy Jones and Jeff Travis, driving a cattle herd and friends of the Bennetts,engage in a gun battle with the killers that frightens the stage horses. Billy gives chase and rescues Judge Fitzgerald and his daughter Molly. The judge has been sent by Washington's Department of Justice to take over the law enforcement in Lincoln County, but is murdered by the Daly/Morgan henchman. Sheriff Long deputizes Billy and his friends to bring in the killers, but Daly is elected sheriff, and promptly brands Billy, Jeff and Fuzzy as outlaws. Billy, now known as Billy the Kid, retaliates by ...