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Gore Vidal's Billy the Kid overview
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












