This film offers a fairly accurate portrayal of Billy the Kid and his group, while also managing to be enjoyable. Before Emilio Estevez became known as Billy the Kid, he was an orphaned teenager taken in by John Tunstall, an English merchant played by Terrence Stamp. Tunstall mentors him along with several other young men – Richard 'Dick' Brewer (Charlie Sheen), Doc Scurlock (Keifer Sutherland), Chavez (Lou Diamon…

The production design and costumes in "Young Guns" are exceptionally convincing, successfully recreating the feel of the era. It appeared that westerns had fallen out of favor with general moviegoers not long before this film's arrival, and it was questionable whether they would ever regain their former popularity; however, this movie emerged and featured a cast of young performers who each played important parts, wh…

If we're caught, we're gonna hang... But there's many a slip twixt the cup and the lip. Young Guns has Christopher Cain as its director and John Fusco as its writer. The film features Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Charlie Sheen, Dermot Mulroney, Casey Siemaszko, Terry O’Quinn, Jack Palance, and Terence Stamp among its cast. Brian Banks and Anthony Marinelli composed the music, and Dean S…