Billy Elliot the performances of Julie Walters, Gary Lewis and Jamie Bell in particular. In 2004, the magazine "Total Film" named "Billy Elliot" the 39th greatest British film of all time. Stephen Warbeck scored the music for the film. The soundtrack was released on 11 March 2002, and includes several well-known glam rock and punk songs from the likes of T. Rex and the Clash. The soundtrack also contains pieces of dialogue from the film. In 2004, English singer/songwriter Elton John joined forces with the film's screenwriter Lee Hall to produce a musical adaptation of the film, which premiered 31 March 2005
Legend of Billy the Kid appeal. Following the commercial success of the first movie he directed for the Metro Goldwyn Mayer studio, "The Big Parade" (1925), he was able to obtain backing for a Billy the Kid production when Irving Thalberg, an executive at MGM, took an interest in his proposal. "Billy the Kid", the first talking picture version of the legend, was released in 1930. The film featured former college football star Johnny Mack Brown in the title role and Hollywood character actor Wallace Beery as Pat Garrett, but it was a box office failure. Nevertheless, Vidor's "Billy the Kid" set the pattern for