Because we are dealing with a legend everyone seems to feel that it must be authentic. I am not interested in authenticity. I am interested in drama. —Sam Peckinpah Sam Peckinpah’s last Western film is the only one he ever made about actual historical figures of the Old West, men who, like Peckinpah himself, were in the process of becoming legends even while they lived. It is practically beyond argument that Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid is by far the best and most important of the 50
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