The Tall Man (TV Series)
The Legend of Billy (1961)
Clu Gulager: Billy the Kid
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Quotes
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Dean Almond : I'm a journalist - feature correspondent for the New York Weekly. I'm making a special trip up this way from El Paso.
Billy the Kid : Well, there ain't nothin' that happens in Lincoln worth writin' about.
Dean Almond : I'm doing a series - 'Great Bad Men of the West'. Grand opportunity to make a name for myself... good as Ned Buntline, Mark Twain or any of that lot.
Billy the Kid : Well, there ain't no great bad men in these parts, Mister.
Dean Almond : Did you ever hear of a young hothead calls himself, "Billy the Kid"?
Billy the Kid : Yeah, yeah. I almost forgot about him.
Dean Almond : They say he was jailed for the first time at the tender age of fourteen - imagine that - for killing a mining engineer named Frank Douglas... but he got out of that by pretending to the jailer's daughter that he was in love with her. Imagine a fourteen year old boy!
Billy the Kid : Don't you believe it.
Dean Almond : What?
Billy the Kid : No, that wasn't his first killing.
Dean Almond : Really?
Billy the Kid : No, no, not by a long shot - not unless you don't count the Mexicans and Indians.
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[Emerson is inquiring about the murderous exploits of Billy the Kid]
Dean Almond : Maybe you could fill me in on the details. Do you know him well?
Billy the Kid : Me?
Dean Almond : Yes, I mean...
Billy the Kid : Well you might say I know him about as well as any.
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[last lines]
Billy the Kid : It still seems kinda sad to see all that pretty writin' go up in smoke.
Deputy Sheriff Pat Garrett : There'll be more of it, heaven help us. Don't start believing any of it or live up to it.
Billy the Kid : Guess if you're readin' that kind of stuff, seems kinda excitin'.