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BILL TILGHMAN AND THE OUTLAWS

"Old Fashioned Hollywood Western"

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BILL TILGHMAN AND THE OUTLAWS is a western set in 1915 as the Wild West is fast becoming just a memory. Famous Hollywood movie producer William Selig, the man who invented Hollywood, travels to Oklahoma to hire the famous Marshal Bill Tilghman to play himself in a bank robbery movie that will also star real outlaws, including Cole Younger and Frank James. The outlaws have other plans, however.

BILL TILGHMAN AND THE OUTLAWS has some good cinematography, good dialogue, exciting scenes, and some very funny scenes. The action is good, the fistfights are well done, and the gunfight is exciting. Also, there’s a redemptive element plus strong support for marriage, honesty, decency, and law and order. One of the outlaws has been saved by Jesus Christ and carries his Bible and tries to explain the Gospel to others. However, the movie’s sometimes a little slow, campy and over the top. Also, there’s some foul language, drinking and smoking. So, caution is advised for older children. Despite that, BILL TILGHMAN AND THE OUTLAWS is a delight to watch for those of us who love the classic Hollywood western.

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Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements:
Light redemptive worldview with strong moral elements and lots of Christian content but not meant to be evangelistic, rather in an historical setting with church services, a character comes to Christ and carries a Bible but others make fun of him, including his mother, with a key element of self-sacrifice and crimes committed and lies told but shown as bad and marriage upheld

Foul Language:
16 mostly light obscenities and two very light profanities

Violence:
Western action violence such as bank teller shot in the arm, several fist fights, people punched out, culminating in large gunfight where some people are shot and killed, dynamite is used to attract attention

Sex:
Several kisses, outlaw makes lewd remarks to the sheriff about the sheriff’s wife and to the wife herself

Nudity:
No nudity

Alcohol Use:
Alcohol use, and the town drunk is a featured character

Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse:
Smoking; and,

Miscellaneous Immorality:
Lying, deceit, bank robbery, gangs, and outlaws.

More Detail:

BILL TILGHMAN AND THE OUTLAWS is a revamp of the classic Hollywood Western starring some of the renowned stars from 1960s television westerns. The movie is entertaining with some good acting and some terrific scenes, but a little bit of it is campy and slow.

Based on a true story, sort of, the movie is set in 1915 as the Wild West is fast becoming just a memory. Famous Hollywood movie producer William Selig, who’s credited as “the man who invented Hollywood,” loved to film real people on location. So, he travels to Oklahoma to hire the famous Marshal Bill Tilghman to play himself in a bank robbery movie that will also star real outlaws, including Cole Younger and Frank James.

Marshal Tilghman is still keeping law and order, even in the saloon he owns, and the small town is peppered with classic western characters, including the town drunk, gamblers and women of ill repute. When the town drunk gets rowdy at a motion picture show in a tent, Bill Tilghman’s wife, Zoe, punches him out. When he wakes up, he goes to Bill’s bar to make more trouble. Tilghman arrests the town drunk, who claims he once rode with Cole Younger and the James brothers.

Bill Selig, who was showing the movie in the tent, finds Bill and offers him more money than Bill’s been paid in five years to be in his movie recreating a wild west robbery. They go to the nearest prison to find convicts to play in the movie, most of who had been put in jail by Bill. Every one of the convicts has a score to settle. Selig thinks he can hire the convicts, pay the prison to let them out for a little time and guard them while they play in his movie. Of course, the convicts have another idea: using the movie to rob the bank.

One of the townspeople is Frank James, who now has a little business as a haberdasher. Prisoner Cole Younger convinces Frank he should help him rob the bank. A woman smuggles bullets to Cole to replace the blanks he’s supposed to fire. However, one of the prisoners, Murphy, doesn’t care about the bank, but only cares about revenge.

After a day or so of rehearsal, the robbery starts while the preacher in the church is preaching love and forgiveness. The robbery soon gets out of hand, the bank teller is actually shot in the arm, and it looks like good people, including Tilghman, may not survive.

BILL TILGHMAN AND THE OUTLAWS has some good cinematography, good dialoguer, some exciting scenes, and some very funny scenes. Some of it, however, is a little slow, and some is campy and over the top.

For those of us who love the classic Hollywood western, it is a delight to watch. However, it does have some foul language, which wasn’t in the Hollywood westerns. Also, it does have drinking and smoking, which give it a lower acceptability that it otherwise would have.

The action is good, the fistfights are well done, and the gunfight is exciting. The movie does have a redemptive element, plus strong support for marriage, honest, decency, and law and order. Also, one of the outlaws has been saved by Jesus Christ and carries his Bible while he tries to explain the Gospel to others. Finally, the movie has a positive portrait of a Christian pastor.

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Now more than ever we’re bombarded by darkness in media, movies, and TV. Movieguide® has fought back for almost 40 years, working within Hollywood to propel uplifting and positive content. We’re proud to say we’ve collaborated with some of the top industry players to influence and redeem entertainment for Jesus. Still, the most influential person in Hollywood is you. The viewer.

What you listen to, watch, and read has power. Movieguide® wants to give you the resources to empower the good and the beautiful. But we can’t do it alone. We need your support.

You can make a difference with as little as $7. It takes only a moment. If you can, consider supporting our ministry with a monthly gift. Thank you.

Movieguide® is a 501c3 and all donations are tax deductible.


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