Young Guns II

Young Guns II (1990)

Timing: 1:44 (104 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

1990-08-01

Country

United States

Production

20th Century Fox, Morgan Creek

Genre

Western, Adventure

Budget

$20 000 000

Revenue

$44 143 410

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Director

Geoff Murphy

Actors

Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Christian Slater, William Petersen, Alan Ruck, R. D. Call, Balthazar Getty, Jack Kehoe, Robert Knepper
All actors and roles (10)

Scenario

Producer

Irby Smith, Paul Schiff, James G. Robinson, John Fusco, Joe Roth

Operator

Dean Semler

Composer

Alan Silvestri

Artist

Audition

Michael Chinich

Editing

Bruce Green
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• Billy refers to a prostitute nicknamed Mexican Blackbird. In reality, this is the name of a song from ZZ Top's 1975 album “Fandango!"
• Specifically for the film, Jon Bon Jovi wrote the song "Blaze of Glory" and then recorded an entire album of the same name, which reached number three on the American charts. The song became number one on the "Billboard Hot 100" – a weekly chart of the 100 most popular songs in the US, according to Billboard magazine. Jon Bon Jovi even played a small role in the film as a long-haired prisoner who is shot in the chest during a scene rescuing from a lynch mob.
• During filming, when Emilio Estevez fired a rifle, the horse under Lou Diamond Phillips got scared, threw its rider, and bolted. The actor got away with a broken arm and leg.
• The border between the state of New Mexico and Mexico is mountainous terrain with no rivers running through it. If the criminals had planned to escape to Mexico, there would have been no physical obstacles in their way.
• Emilio Estevez plays the role of Bill Roberts, an old man who claims to be "The Kid" Billy. The studio didn't believe the actor could play an old man, but Estevez hired a makeup artist and a coach. His transformation into an old man was so convincing that he got the role. Moreover, Estevez left the set in character and sat down to play dominoes with some old men, lying to them about his age.
• In reality, Gordon "Doc" Scurlock, played by Kiefer Sutherland in the film, did not die in the so-called Lincoln County War (January 1877 – July 20, 1878, a feud between the "Murphy and Dolan" company and English entrepreneur John Tunstall for economic influence in the state of New Mexico), but died of old age in 1929. For most of his life, he pretended to have nothing to do with the events described in the film.