‘Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid’
On the heels of the news that Martin Scorsese will be helming a forthcoming Bob Dylan project, revisit one of Dylan’s more unusual career turns, a role in Sam Peckinpah’s landmark western Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. The 1973 film stars James Coburn as Pat Garrett and Dylan contemporary Kris Kristofferson as Billy The Kid. As for Zimmy himself, Dylan plays a knife-wielding rogue named ‘Alias’ (how very Dylan that is). All this and “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door,” too.