Wild Bill (2011)

Wild Bill is a film about the dark side of Wild Bill Hickock that no one ever hears about. It is a tale about a ruthless, obnoxious, hard drinking, degenerate of a man. The film's beginning is a series of flash back scenes where his good friend, Charlie, tries to justify the kind of person he became In Wild Bill's last days he lived in saloons and opium dens in the Dakota territory of Deadwood. He played cards and drank with his friends. People came to challenge the great Wild Bill Hickock. There is one person in particular that stalked Bill in his last days and that was Jack McCall, a young man with a personal vendetta towards him. Bill had been romantically involved with McCall's mother before she died. She always believed he would come back, but, he never did. Jack blames Bill for all his mother's unhappiness and is determined to kill him. He goes to the opium den one night to kill Bill but he can't bring himself to do it. Later Jack is approached by Donnie Lonigan and four other gunmen offering their services for money to kill Hickock. At first Jack refuses, but after realizing he can't do it on his own, he takes them up on their offer. They pick a day when the town is deserted, as everyone has left for another gold strike. Everyone is gone but Bill, Calamity Jane, California Joe, and Charlie. Jack enters the saloon along with Donnie Lonigan and his hired gunmen. Jack has Lonigan and his men get everyone's guns. He proceeds to tell Bill that he intends to kill him for ruining his mothers life. Jack keeps everyone waiting as he holds his gun on Bill trying to get up the nerve to shoot. What should have taken a matter of minutes takes hours, because Jack can't bring himself to kill a man in cold blood. Jack along with Lonigan and his men finally leave, going to the stables to get their horses. Bill, however, will not let the incident go. He follows them to the barn and proceeds to gun down Lonigan and his men as they get on their horses. Jack is crouching down behind a stall when the smoke clears from the gunfire. Bill tells the kid to "Let it go" and offers to buy him a drink. Back at the bar, as Bill is playing cards with Joe and Charlie, Jack listens to Joe brag about all the great fights Bill has been in, and how he always wins. It is finally more than Jack can take. He aims the gun at the back of Bill's head and pulls the trigger. Hickock finally played his last hand of cards and lost.