The Big Picture 10 years before he recapitulated the outlaw legend of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, Arthur Penn made his directorial debut with a film about another famous outlaw. Paul Newman plays Billy the Kid in The Left Handed Gun , a tragic Western whose vision of the Wild West is oriented around the dissonance between self and image, and which examines that dissonance with languid melodrama.
Release Date May 17, 1958 Director Arthur Penn Cast Paul Newman , Lita Milan , John Dehner , Hurd Hatfield , James Congdon , James Best , Colin Keith-Johnston , John Dierkes Runtime 102 Minutes Writers Leslie Stevens , Gore Vidal The Brooding Angst of James Deen Meets the Cowboy Cool of Gary Cooper in 'The Left Handed Gun' Close The Left Handed Gun was one of Newman's early major roles, and to be frank, the then-33-year-old actor was severely miscast as Billy the Kid.
Though Newman's age and stern appearance partly works against him here, the saving grace is that he is able to bridge the gap between hard-nosed outlaw and smoldering youth. Newman always excelled as charismatic tough guys, and he plays Billy with a masculine gravitas that always shines through his juvenile demeanor.
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