If you loved The Ballad of Cable Hogue, try Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
What they share
Both films are directed by Sam Peckinpah, and they both carry the bittersweet mood tag, and they sit in Western territory. If that's the register that drew you to The Ballad of Cable Hogue, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid is
Bonnie and Clyde without the roaring roadsters. Pat Garrett, now a sheriff, is tasked with hunting down Billy the Kid, his former partner in crime. Kris Kristofferson's Kid makes you wonder whose side Peckinpah is really on.

