The Left Handed Gun

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The Left Handed Gun is a 1958 Western film dramatizing the life of Billy the Kid, noted for its psychologically complex, revisionist take on the outlaw legend.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Western film
feature film
film
basedOn teleplay "The Death of Billy the Kid"
basedOnWorkBy Gore Vidal
cinematographyBy J. Peverell Marley
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
countryOfRelease United States of America
surface form: United States
depicts events surrounding the Lincoln County War
director Arthur Penn
distributor Warner Bros. Pictures
surface form: Warner Bros.
editedBy Folmar Blangsted
filmingLocation United States of America
surface form: United States
filmingProcess black-and-white
follows life of Billy the Kid
genre Western
drama film
revisionist Western
hasCastMember Ainslie Pryor
Colin Keith-Johnston
Hurd Hatfield
James Best
James Congdon
John Dehner
John Dierkes
John Tringali
Lita Milan
Paul Newman
Robert Anderson
Wally Brown
hasType psychological Western film
mainSubject Billy the Kid
medium cinema
musicBy Alexander Courage
narrativeFocus psychological characterization of Billy the Kid
notableFor psychologically complex portrayal of an outlaw
revisionist treatment of Western genre conventions
originalLanguage English
portrays Billy the Kid as psychologically complex
outlaw legend in a revisionist manner
productionCompany Warner Bros. Pictures
surface form: Warner Bros.

Warner Bros. Pictures
publicationDate 1958
runtime 102 minutes
screenwriter Gore Vidal
setInPeriod Old West
surface form: American Old West
title The Left Handed Gun self-link

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Arthur Penn directed The Left Handed Gun
The Left Handed Gun title The Left Handed Gun self-link