The Left-Handed Gun

…his screen directing debut with The Left Handed Gun (1958), a psychological retelling of the legend of gunfighter Billy the Kid. Paul Newman essayed the title role, which he had played in the 1955 Philco Playhouse production on which the film was based (Gore Vidal wrote both versions). Although the…

In the biopic The Left Handed Gun (1958), Newman appeared as Billy the Kid. He closed out the decade with the melodrama The Young Philadelphians (1959), in which he played a manipulative attorney.