Young Guns II
Billy “The Kid” and his gang is wanted by the law, and when “Doc” Scurlock and Chavez are captured, Billy has to save them…
- Director: Geoff Murphy
- Genre:Action / Western
- Runtime:104 minutes
Cast
Emilio Estevez : William H. ‘Billy the Kid’ Bonney
Kiefer Sutherland : Josiah Gordon ‘Doc’ Scurlock
Lou Diamond Phillips : ‘Jose’ Chavez y Chavez
Christian Slater : Arkansas Dave Rudabaugh
William Petersen : Patrick Floyd ‘Pat’ Garrett
The film opens in 1950 with a young attorney talking to an elderly man named Brushy Bill Roberts, who claims that he is William H. Bonney (aka Billy The Kid), whom “everyone” knows to have been shot and killed by Pat Garrett in 1881. The majority of the film takes place in flashbacks as the old man recalls his story for the lawyer, who asks if the man has any proof that he is the famous outlaw.
Brushy Bill’s story begins with the remaining Regulators having gone their separate ways. Billy has become part of a new gang with ‘Arkansas’ Dave Rudabaugh (Slater) and Pat Garrett (Petersen). The state governor has issued warrants for the arrests of those involved in the Lincoln County wars, including Billy, Doc Scurlock (Sutherland), and Jose Chavez y Chavez (Phillips), who are dragged into town and imprisoned in a pit dug into the ground to await hanging. This is when Chavez mentions the spirit horse (a horse that is said to carry worthy souls to the other side).
Meanwhile, Billy meets with the new governor Lew Wallace who agrees to pardon Billy if he testifies against the Dolan-Murphy faction. Billy soon finds out that he was tricked into being arrested with no chance of testifying against his old enemies. After pulling out of his cuffs, Billy along with the help of Rudabaugh and Garrett, pose as a lynch mob to spring his old comrades from a hanging. When the gang successfully escape Lincoln, Billy mentions the Mexican Blackbird (a broken trail only him and few others know that leads down to ‘Old’ Mexico). Garrett decides not to go with the gang and, instead, open a boarding house.
As they make a run for the border along with farmer Hendry William French (Ruck) and 14 year old Tom O’Folliard (Getty), John Simpson Chisum and Governor Lew Wallace approach Garrett to persuade him with $1000 to use whatever resources he needs to hunt Bonney down and kill him. Garrett agrees and, forming a posse, begins his pursuit of the gang. Read more
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