Birth Of A Legend – Billy The Kid And The Lincoln County DVD – Robert Shrimplin, Mikael Brolin 

The story of Billy the Kid and the Lincoln County War has become an American Legend and there have been movie versions by the dozen based on his short and violent life. But somehow or other the movies always got it wrong. That’s why there has never been a definitive account of the story. Until now… The dramatic storyline and characterizations are skillfully brought to life in this compelling dramatization which provides an authoritative history of the events which led to the death of John Henry Tunstall, 134 years ago which sparked the Legend we now know as Billy the Kid. You see the ‘The Santa Fe Ring’ plotting death as casually as smoking a cigar; John Chisum staring death in the face as he tells a young newspaper man how it all began, the Englishman, John Tunstall riding unwittingly to his sudden brutal death on a lonely mountainside and Billy the Kid, standing at his friend’s graveside, vowing to hunt down and kill the men who murdered him. This DVD is a must buy for any true Billy the Kid aficionado and will be enjoyed by all those who have an interest in the true history of the Wild West. Special Features: An 85 minute interview with historian, Frederick Nolan. ‘Birth of a Movie’ reveals his lifelong interest in the Kid, the detective work he under took, the decades of research – all the clues, all the papers, all the facts that led him to write his definitive book and now film script.