Taglines: The West just got wilder.
Young Guns 2 movie storyline. In 1950, attorney Charles Phalen is contacted by an elderly man named “Brushy Bill” Roberts. Brushy Bill tells Phalen that he is dying and wants to receive a pardon that he was promised 70 years before by the Governor of New Mexico, claiming that he is really William H. Bonney aka “Billy The Kid”, whom “everyone” knows to have been shot and killed by Pat Garrett in 1881. Phalen then asks if Bill has any proof that he is the famous outlaw.
Brushy Bill’s story begins with the remaining Regulators having gone their separate ways. Billy has become part of a new gang with “Arkansas” Dave Rudabaugh (Slater) and Pat Garrett (Petersen). The New Mexico governor has issued warrants for the arrests of those involved in the Lincoln County Wars, including Billy, Doc Scurlock (Sutherland), and Jose Chavez y Chavez (Phillips), who are dragged into town and imprisoned to await hanging.
Meanwhile, Billy meets with the new governor Lew Wallace who agrees to pardon Billy if he testifies against the Dolan-Murphy faction. Billy soon finds out that he was tricked into being arrested with no chance of testifying against his old enemies. After escaping, Billy along with the help of Rudabaugh and Garrett, pose as a lynch mob to spring Doc and Chavez from jail. When the gang successfully escape Lincoln, Billy mentions the Mexican Blackbird (a broken trail only he and few others know that leads down to Mexico). Garrett decides not to go with the gang and, instead, open a boarding house.
As they make a run for the border along with farmer Henry William French (Alan Ruck) and 14-year-old Tom O’Folliard (Balthazar Getty), cattle baron John Simpson Chisum (James Coburn) and Governor Wallace approach Garrett to offer him the job as Lincoln County Sheriff and $1000 to use whatever resources he needs to hunt Bonney down and kill him. Garrett agrees and, forming a posse, begins his pursuit of the gang.
Young Guns II: Blaze of Glory is a 1990 American western film and a sequel to Young Guns (1988). The second installment in the Young Guns film series. It stars Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Christian Slater, and features William Petersen as Pat Garrett. It was written and produced by John Fusco and directed by Geoff Murphy.
Young Guns 2 (1990)
Directed by: Geoff Murphy
Starring: Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Christian Slater, William Petersen, Alan Ruck, Balthazar Getty, Robert Knepper, Viggo Mortensen
Screenplay by: John Fusco
Production Design by: Gene Rudolf
Cinematography by: Dean Semler
Film Editing by: Bruce Green
Costume Design by: Judy L. Ruskin
Set Decoration by: Andrew Bernard, Pasco Di Carlo, Flint Esquerra, Steve Joyner
Art Direction by: Christa Munro
Music by: Alan Silvestri
Distributed by: 20th Century Fox
Release Date: August 1, 1990
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