Film

The Left Handed Gun 1958

Directed by Arthur Penn

  • Western
  • 102 min
  • NR

I don't run. I don't hide. I go where I want. I do what I want.

When a crooked sheriff murders his employer, William "Billy the Kid" Bonney decides to avenge the death by killing the man responsible, throwing the lives of everyone around him into turmoil, and endangering the General Amnesty set up by Governor Wallace to bring peace to the New Mexico Territory.

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  • earnestironic
  • classical in formformally daring
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