The Left Handed Gun(1958)

Dramatizes the final days in the life of William Bonney, better known as Billy the Kid, whose life in this dramatization is shaped by first killing at age eleven in retaliation for disparaging words said against his mother. It is the late nineteenth century in the Wyoming Territory. With Bonney adrift, English cattleman John Tunstall hires Billy both in needing an extra hand and seeing that Billy himself is in need. In the cattle wars plaguing the region, Tunstall, a bible reading, non-violent man in not even carrying a gun, is murdered by four rival cattlemen upon he and his herd entering Lincoln County, the killing sanctioned by one of the four, Lincoln County Sheriff Brady. In loyalty to Tunstall for his kindness, Billy, with his two new friends Tom Folliard and Charlie Boudre, goes on a mission to kill the four all under the guise of self-defense in situations of they drawing their guns. It becomes an ever changing situation which leads to friends becoming enemies in the belief by some that what Billy is attempting to do is itself pure murder.