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Title: Western realism and moral ambivilance
Review: Not having seen this in 30 years, I ordered from Amazon with distant memories of the original cut. While still having Peckinpah's caricature style of sideline characters, which is engaging, this cut is terrific in giving what I imagine is a more in depth unvarnished look at the turn of the century rural West. While in real life most accounts depict Billy the Kid as unequivocally evil, this film takes license and uses him as a set up for the moral ambivilance of conflict---class, race, wealth, old vs. new. But, in this cut, is the Slim Pickens death scene cut back dramatically from the original. I believe so, and if correct that's a drawback because the original may have been a tearjerker, but it was great.
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