Release This Film On DVD

The Westerns Channel version is emasculated. I'd recommend searching out the Director's Cut which is infinitely better. You'll raise your score of 7 up once you see it. I promise

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[Ryan_FB] Are there any plans for DVD releases of classic Sam Peckinpah films, specifically The Ballad of Cable Hogue?

[warnerbros] Yes. Look forward to a major Peckinpah promotion from us including CABLE HOGUE, RIDE THE HIGH COUNTRY and PAT GARRETT AND BILLY THE KID next year.

I really hope this film is released on DVD soon. It is a masterpeice. MGM just released Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, and Major Dundee, so I hope they release Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, and Ride the High Country next.

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"I recently purchased Pat Garret and Billy the Kid on DVD from this site:

http://store.thesmallscreen.org/patgaandbiki.html

The quality is good/not great and is the widescreen directors cut(so they say). I had never scene the movie and did want to wait for the official release(which I will buy anyway). I like the movie and am glad I saw it. It will hold me over until it comes out and will bring the bootleg copy
to my families summer home(where we keep all of copies)."

Thanks for the link. I've been confused about one thing from some other posts on this board though. Is Dylan's "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" still there under Slim Pickens' death scene?

"I recently purchased Pat Garret and Billy the Kid on DVD from this site:

http://store.thesmallscreen.org/patgaandbiki.html";

Shoelace - thanks for the site. I ordered a copy and agree that the quality is surprisingly good - certainly no worse than hundreds of other film prints of similar vintage that I have watched on broadcast television over the years. As best I remember, I had never before seen the opening or closing title sequences, the scene where Garrett goes home to his wife, the entire scene with Dub Taylor and Elisha Cook Jr., and many other sequences seemed fleshed out and longer than I remembered - particularly the ambush on Billy at the end. The movie definitely plays "better" for me - although I missed the vocal version of "Knockin' On Heaven's Door" during Pickens' death scene and the sequence itself seemed somehow constricted. My question is to you experts out there - what is the genesis of this "Director's Cut" - and how accurate do we know it to be to Peckinpah's original intentions? Is this the original saved and vaulted director's print mentioned in the most recent Peckinpah biography? Or is it a "re-construction" done years after the fact? And if Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid IS released in an "official" and restored Director's Cut - would it most likely be this same version?