Pat Garrett and his Sharps Rifle

Today (July 14th) is the 128th anniversary of Billy the Kid's fateful fall.
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (Pekinpah, 1973) is one of my favorite movies ever. It features Kris Kristofferson at the apogee of his beauty, and wearing the nicest jeans ever. Coburn is spot on, Slim Pickins steals a scene, Bob Dylan is rewind-worthy weird as the cowboy "Alias", and the whole thing is beautifully shot in Pekinpah's signature style. Add to that a fucking killer Dylan soundtrack and you've got yourself... well, a movie that may have been made for me.
Here is an illustrative scene of the awesomeness. Banish GNR from your head.


I just wikipedia'd the soundtrack, and found the following story which I must quote in full:
"Sam says, 'Who's Bob Dylan?,'" recalls Coburn. "'Oh yeah, the kids used to listen to his stuff. I was kinda thinkin' of that guy Roger whatsisname, King of the Road guy, to do it.' And we all said, 'What!! You gotta see Dylan,'...He said, 'Okay, bring Dylan down.'...So the night we were over at Sam's house and we were all drinking tequila and carrying on and halfway through dinner, Sam says, 'Okay, kid, let's see what you got. You bring your guitar with you?' They went in this little alcove. Sam had a rocking chair. Bobby sat down on a stool in front of this rocking chair. There was just the two of them in there...And Bobby played [his songs]. And Sam came out with his handkerchief in his eye: 'Goddamn kid! Who the hell is he? Who is that kid? Sign him up!'"