Badman's Country

Although the plot has well-known actual western figures Pat Garrett, Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson and Buffalo Bill fighting Butch Cassidy's gang, in reality by the time Cassidy had gathered his now-famous Hole-in-the-Wall Gang, Garrett was dead, Buffalo Bill was touring in his Wild West show, Earp was prospecting for gold in Alaska and Masterson was a sportswriter for a newspaper in New York City.

When the wounded marshal sees a gunman about to kill Buffalo Bill, he fires his shotgun at him.

However, the sound that comes out - obviously added in during post-production - is that of a pistol.

"Badman's Country" is a cheaply produced little B&W "B" western that boasts several legendary lawmen of the old west.First we have Pat Garrett (George Montgomery) who is being hounded by friends of Billy the Kid whom he has killed.

It's a veritable feast of Wild West heroes and villains, a fanciful tale where the likes of Pat Garrett, Wyatt Earp and Buffalo Bill Cody convene in a sprouting Abilene to do battle with the scuzzy likes of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. The locals are restless, though, because the presence of the tough lawmen makes them uneasy, they fear that town will soon be over run with blood…Directed by Fred F.

Remember the old Godzilla movies where every monster would show up and either fight with or against Godzilla? This western has the same idea.

Pat Garrett gets shot at while going to Abilene. He's a bit out of his stomping grounds in New Mexico territory.

Talk about wish fulfillment! Badman's Country appeared on screen at just about the time when B westerns were disappearing owing to TV, which had already lionized Wyatt Earp (Hugh O'Brian) and Bat Masterson (Alan Dinehart and, later, Gene Barry) and would shortly do so for Pat Garrett (Barry Sullivan).

Routine, by-the-numbers western about Pat Garrett, Wyatt Earp, Buffalo Bill and Bat Masterson joining forces--which, in reality, never happened--to fight off Butch Cassidy and the Hole-in-the-Wall Gang in their attack on Abilene, Texas, to rob a bank--which, in reality, never happened either. But even if there weren't the overabundance of historical inaccuracies in this film, it still wouldn't be very good.