Later a madman, Bad Bob, comes to town and proceeds to raise hell, kill his own horse and challenge Bean to a showdown. First a mountain man called Grizzly Adams gives Bean a bear (named Zachary Taylor after the 12th president of the United States, but later renamed the Watch Bear) as a pet. Finding money, he then fines the dead drunk for discharging a firearm in a public place and pockets the money.īean proceeds to encounter many odd characters passing through his town.

Bean then goes through the dead drunk's pockets. When a drunk shoots up a saloon, Bean does not mind, but when Lillie's portrait is struck by a bullet, the fellow is shot dead on the spot. Prostitutes are sentenced to remain in town and keep the marshals company.ĭispensing his own kind of frontier justice, Bean lets the marshals hang a murderer named Sam Dodd, and share his money. The new marshals round up other outlaws, then claim their goods after Bean sentences them to hang. When a band of thieves comes to town (Big Bart Jackson and gang members Nick the Grub, Fermel Parlee, Tector Crites, and Whorehouse Lucky Jim), rather than oppose them, Bean swears them in as lawmen.

Maria Elena is given a place to live and fine clothes ordered from a Sears Roebuck catalog. A traveling preacher, LaSalle, buries the dead.īean renames the saloon The Jersey Lilly, and hangs a portrait of a woman he worships, but has never met, Lillie Langtry, a noted actress and singer of the 1890s. With no law and order, he appoints himself judge and 'the law west of the Pecos' and becomes the townspeople's patron. Bean promptly returns to town and shoots all those who did him wrong. The customers in the saloon beat him, rob him, toss a noose around him, and let his horse drag him off.Ī young woman named Maria Elena finds and helps him. Plot Īn outlaw, Roy Bean, rides into a West Texas border town called Vinegaroon by himself. It was loosely based on the life and times of Judge Roy Bean. The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean is a 1972 American Western comedy film written by John Milius, directed by John Huston, and starring Paul Newman.

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