Young Guns

A group of young gunmen, led by Billy the Kid, become deputies to avenge the murder of the rancher who became their benefactor. An action-packed Western that follows a group of young, rebellious outcasts in 1878 New Mexico who are taken in by a gentle English cattle rancher, John Tunstall. Tunstall recruits these troubled youths—including William H. Bonney (later known as Billy the Kid), Doc Scurlock, Chavez y Chavez, Dick Brewer, Dirty Steve Stephens, and Charlie Bowdre—to work his ranch and learn to read and civilize themselves. However, their peaceful new life is shattered when Tunstall is brutally murdered by competitive cattle factionists led by the corrupt Lawrence Murphy. Seeking justice, the local justice of the peace deputizes the boys as regulators to arrest the killers, but Billy's volatile temper quickly turns their legal mission into a bloody, vengeful war. As the boys trans
