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The Left Handed Gun

6.0/ 10

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1958

Release Year

102 min

Runtime

Western

Overview

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.

Keywords

revenge
cattleman
gun fight
pat garrett
corrupt sheriff
cowboys and outlaws
billy the kid

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Reviews(2)

6.5avg rating
John Chard

John Chard

August 28, 2014

7
7/10

The demythologised account of Billy The Kid. Billy Bonney is taken in by kindly rancher John Tunstall, he starts to learn respect and education, but then Tunstall is cruelly murdered. Bonney having been robbed of the one man he respected, shows his darker side and vows to seek revenge on Tunstall

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

February 19, 2026

6
6/10

There is something of the original Chisum story to this western as William Bonney - aka “Billy the Kid” (Paul Newman) is hired by the decent Tunstall (Colin Keith-Johnson) to herd his cattle to Lincoln where it is to be used to feed the troops. The sheriff “Brady” (Robert Foulk) and three of his dep

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