Billy can't catch a break, can he?
Throughout Billy the Kid Season 2 Episode 1, the hoping-to-be former outlaw told anyone who would listen that he was attempting to reform.
Billy has never been comfortable as an outlaw.
His sainted mother, Kathleen, raised Henry McCarty as a good Catholic boy.
But his quick temper and elevated sense of right and wrong soon landed him in infamy. It's hard to make a fresh start anywhere when your face is on a wanted poster.
That was why Billy was so grateful to John Tunstall for accepting him when he switched over to his side against his former employer, Major Murphy, to help the farmers and ranchers being victimized by The House, the local branch of the corrupt Santa Fe Ring.
Billy wisely turned down Tunstall's offer of becoming his second in command, deferring to a resident whom the others were more likely to follow.
Throughout Billy the Kid Season 2 Episode 1, the hoping-to-be former outlaw told anyone who would listen that he was attempting to reform.
Billy has never been comfortable as an outlaw.
His sainted mother, Kathleen, raised Henry McCarty as a good Catholic boy.
But his quick temper and elevated sense of right and wrong soon landed him in infamy. It's hard to make a fresh start anywhere when your face is on a wanted poster.
That was why Billy was so grateful to John Tunstall for accepting him when he switched over to his side against his former employer, Major Murphy, to help the farmers and ranchers being victimized by The House, the local branch of the corrupt Santa Fe Ring.
Billy wisely turned down Tunstall's offer of becoming his second in command, deferring to a resident whom the others were more likely to follow.
- 10/16/2023
- by Dale McGarrigle
- TVfanatic
Legend has it that Billy the Kid shot and killed 21 men; one for each year of his life. The legendary outlaw's own life was taken sometime after midnight on July 14, 1881, by the reformed lawman Pat Garrett in Fort Sumner, New Mexico. There is still speculation that Garrett, a longtime acquaintance of Billy's (whose birth name was Henry McCarty) never actually shot down his old friend and allowed him to escape in the dark of night.
Garrett was also accused of ambushing McCarty, which led to him hiring a ghost writer named Marshall Upton who detailed Garrett's version in "The Authentic Life of Billy, the Kid." The book has become a great historical reference, but at the time of its release in 1882, it failed to change the popular opinion that Garrett may have acted ungentlemanly the night Billy the Kid was slain.
Most Westerns don't ever get a sequel, but the...
Garrett was also accused of ambushing McCarty, which led to him hiring a ghost writer named Marshall Upton who detailed Garrett's version in "The Authentic Life of Billy, the Kid." The book has become a great historical reference, but at the time of its release in 1882, it failed to change the popular opinion that Garrett may have acted ungentlemanly the night Billy the Kid was slain.
Most Westerns don't ever get a sequel, but the...
- 2/13/2023
- by Drew Tinnin
- Slash Film
The Kid Stays in the Picture: Ponciroli Goes Old Fashioned with Fan Fiction Western
At a certain point, revisionism strays so far into its own horizon it ends up full circle in resembling the format it’s progressing. Such is the case with Potsy Ponciroli’s sophomore film Old Henry, a character driven oater which suggests elements of fan fiction mining the urban legend of Billy the Kid. A certain historical awareness of the outlaw gunfighter, (nee Henry McCarty alias William H. Bonney) might add to the weight of Ponciroli’s conceit, which is otherwise as old fashioned a narrative as they come.…...
At a certain point, revisionism strays so far into its own horizon it ends up full circle in resembling the format it’s progressing. Such is the case with Potsy Ponciroli’s sophomore film Old Henry, a character driven oater which suggests elements of fan fiction mining the urban legend of Billy the Kid. A certain historical awareness of the outlaw gunfighter, (nee Henry McCarty alias William H. Bonney) might add to the weight of Ponciroli’s conceit, which is otherwise as old fashioned a narrative as they come.…...
- 10/5/2021
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
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