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.
Paul Newman
as Billy The Kid
Lita Milan
as Celsa
John Dehner
as Pat Garrett
Hurd Hatfield
as Moultrie
James Congdon
as Charlie Boudre
James Best
as Tom Folliard
Colin Keith-Johnston
as Tunstall
John Dierkes
as McSween
Robert Anderson
as Hill
Wally Brown
as Deputy Moon
John Chard
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...