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'''''Billy the Kid''''' (1930) is a film about the relationship between frontier outlaw [[Billy the Kid]] ([[Johnny Mack Brown]]) and [[Pat Garrett]] ([[Wallace Beery]]), the man who later killed him. Directed by [[King Vidor]], the movie was filmed in an early widescreen process ([[John Wayne]]'s first film, ''[[The Big Trail]]'', released the same year and directed by [[Raoul Walsh]], used a similar process and has been restored by the [[Museum of Modern Art]]). No widescreen prints of ''Billy the Kid'' are known to currently exist and the movie can only be viewed in a standard-width version that was filmed simultaneously.

The film was remade in color in 1941 as ''Billy the Kid'' with [[Robert Taylor]] as Billy and [[Brian Donlevy]] as a fictionalized version of Pat Garrett. The [[Howard Hughes]] version two years later, called ''[[The Outlaw]]'' and mainly serving as an introductory vehicle for [[Jane Russell]], owes at least as much to the 1930 film, particularly in the casting of [[Thomas Mitchell]], a superb actor who physically resembles Wallace Beery, as Garrett.