15 Most Underrated Western Films Of All Time

15. Pat Garret And Billy The Kid

Like everything from taciturn western director/ troubled genius Sam Peckinpah, 1973’s Pat Garret and Billy the Kid is a revisionist tale of the old west with an emphasis on the revision part.

Following the ageing eponymous sheriff as he hunts down an old friend of his, the iconic outlaw of the title, this slow and meditative look at the old west’s dying dream is a slyly elegiac and tragic masterpiece which deserves to be remembered for much more than its (admittedly pretty amazing) original song—a little number titled “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” by none other than Bob Dylan, who has a small and surprisingly solid acting role in the flick as well as penning the tune for it.