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Actors: Paul Newman, John Dehner, James Best, James Congdon, Hurd Hatfield, Lita Milan
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about The Left Handed Gun |
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This movie, based on a play by Gore Vidal, was directed by Arthur Penn (Bonnie and Clyde) in 1958.
William Bonney is hired as a cowboy by English cattle owner Tunstall who's driving his herd to Lincoln. Tunstall takes an interest in the young William who seems to have had a tough life until now. In Lincoln, Tunstall is murdered by sheriff Brady, Hill, Moon and Joe Grant who feared that Tunstall would have sold his herd at a low price. William Bonney decides to take the law in his own hands, kills Brady and Moon and comes back to his home town.
The Governor of New Mexico announces a general amnesty but William Bonney, known now as Billy The Kid, kills Hill during his friend Pat Garrett's wedding as well as Tunstall's last murderer. Garrett decides then to accept a job as Federal Marshall and manages to arrest William Bonney after having killed Charlie Boudre and Tom Folliard, the Kid's pals. Sentenced to death, Billy The Kid escapes and, once more, comes back to his home town, hunted by Pate Garrett.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of The Left Handed Gun |
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Plot
Time/Era of Movie:
- 19th century
Kind of western:
- hunting down outlaws
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- cowboy
Age:
- 20's-30's
Eccentric:
Yes
- emotionally unstable
- wild
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- aggressive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- muscular (man)
How much in movie?
- 40%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 20%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Setting
The US:
- Southwest
Small town people:
- nice, like Andy/Opie/Aunt Bee
Misc setting
- prison
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately messy visuals of dead
Movie makes you feel...
- depressed/sad
How many deaths in film?
- 8 or more
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 1 (None)
Kind of violence:
- guns
Unusual forms of death
- perforation--bullets
Check here if B&W
Yes
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
Is this movie based on a
- play
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