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So what happened to Hendry W. French at the end?

posted 15 years ago by BobStage
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He just walks away and that's it? No information on him? Because there seems to be a lot of info on everyone else attached to Billy the Kid (Rudabaugh, Chavez, Scurlock, Bowdre, O'Folliard, Garrett).

[–] FilmBuff37 15 years ago

That is a really good question. I myself just saw it again. I original saw this in the theater when I was going into my senior year in High School.

[–] jesses_girl88 15 years ago

I'm not really sure but if you listen throughout the movie nobody really knew that he rode with Billy and he left before anyone really got a chance to know who he was. That's be best theory I got.

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[–] pndferpnd 15 years ago

I'm not 100% sure so take my word as gospel but I am pretty sure that Henry William French is a combo of all the other guys that rode with the Regulators. Bowdre, Skurlock, Chavez, Brewster, Rudabaugh, O'Folliard were the main guys I guess but there was actually like 30-40 of them and I think French is a composite of all the rest. There wasn't an actual Henry William French.

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[–] murfdog19 13 years ago

Hendry William French is based on Jim William French in real life. He wasn't scouted to ride with Billy when he was on the run. He was actually a Regulator, so he should have been in the first movie as well.

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[–] dimsum73-1 14 years ago

He went on to do a cameo in Speed ; )

[–] garrettok31 13 years ago

He's probably there just so someone can survive this movie, I wouldn't have put it past them to flash forward to Pat Garrett being shot in 1908.

[–] dllmb 13 years ago

I just took it as he was the lone survivor of the movie. The irony being that he was probably the least likely to survive based on the fact that he had no experience was timid and clumsy. Yet he was the lone survivor.

[–] CanadianAnvil 9 years ago

Various reports indicate that he was shot and killed in a botched robbery in 1879. A year after the Lincoln County wars, which he was present for. He was involved in the McSween house battle as well as Buckshot Roberts outhouse shooting where Dick Brewer was killed.

The two movies take a lot of creative license with the real life characters. For instance, Doc's demise was really how Charlie Bowdre went out.

[–] PonyOne1313 8 years ago

He wasn't a real person. I believe they pulled the name from a regulator called "Big" Jim French

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[–] A_Real_Hip_Dude 8 years ago

Yeah, I always assumed he was some sort of amalgam of Jim French and Henry Brown.