Gore Vidal's Billy the Kid overview

Gore Vidals Billy the Kid

Synopsis:

Gore Vidal's 1955 TV play and 1958 film The Left-Handed Gun discreetly explored the hitherto untapped homosexual subtext in the saga of gunslinger Billy the Kid. Vidal's 1989 reworking of the same material, the made-for-cable Gore Vidal's Billy the Kid, is just as discreet, but no less top-heavy with 20th-century psychoanalysis. In relating the tale of New Mexico Territory outlaw William H. Bonney, Vidal once again postulates that Billy (described as a "homicidal moron" by one less sentimentally inclined historian) was a misunderstood kid who fell in with bad company.


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Movie Details:

  • Director: William A. Graham
  • Studio: Turner Network Television
  • Year: 1989
  • Run Time: 100 minutes
  • Country: USA
  • Language: English
  • Category: Feature
  • Genre/Type: Drama, Western
  • Filmed in: Made for TV, Color