FrauBlucher wrote: ↑Tue Jan 19, 2021 3:11 pmI'm going to put one foot over the line by posting this here because I think CC will eventually release this.... I am currently watching on a cable channel called Movies!, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. How many cuts and versions of this film are there? Has there ever been a definitive Peckinpah version?
According to Paul Seydor's brilliant and exhaustively-researched The Authentic Death and Contentious Afterlife of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, there are five major versions of the film. There is no truly definitive cut, but the "Turner 1988" version that Peckinpah supposedly kept a copy of in a gutted-out refrigerator is the closest, and it's far and away the best. WB makes that version available for 35mm screenings, thankfully.