The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean

TCM's Dave Karger introduces The Life And Times Of Judge Roy Bean, 1972.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Life And Times Of Judge Roy Bean, 1972.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Life And Times Of Judge Roy Bean, 1972.

The full performance of Tab Hunter as unrepentant murderous drifter Dodd, addressing the camera in the same manner as other famous-actor-cameo characters, processed quickly by Paul Newman as the title character, bogus judge in 1890’s West Texas, Jim Burk, Matt Clark, Bill McKinney, Ned Beatty and Steve Kanaly the new deputies, in John Huston’s The Life And Times Of Judge Roy Bean, 1972.

Outrageous Western comic slaughter from writer John Milius and director John Huston, Victoria Principal as Maria Elena brings a gun to Roy (Paul Newman), who takes revenge on the low-lifes who robbed and nearly hanged him on arrival, in The Life And Times Of Judge Roy Bean, 1972.

Before it’s clear that much of the movie will consist of visits by top actors in character roles, Anthony Perkins is the first, as Reverend LaSalle, discovering Roy (Paul Newman) shortly after he’s killed all the Anglo residents of his nascent town, in The Life And Times Of Judge Roy Bean, 1972.

Maybe the most outrageous of the extended cameos in director John Huston’s comic Western, Ned Beatty narrates and Stacy Keach appears as Bad Bob, a former fellow of the title character (Paul Newman, not seen here) in earlier days, in The Life And Times Of Judge Roy Bean, 1972.

Paul Newman stars as the Law West of the Pecos in John Huston's The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972).