Bob Dylan Knockin on Heavens Door ( Film Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid 1973)

Bob Dylan Knockin on Heaven s Door (Film Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid 1973) Artist : Bob Dylan Song : Knockin on Heaven s Door Knockin on Heaven s Door is a song by Bob Dylan, written for the soundtrack of the 1973 film Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. Released as a single two months after the film s release, it became a worldwide hit, reaching the Top 10 in several countries Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid is a 1973 American revisionist western drama film directed by Sam Peckinpah, written by Rudy Wurlitzer, and starring James Coburn, Kris Kristofferson, Richard Jaeckel, Katy Jurado, Chill Wills, Barry Sullivan, Jason Robards and Bob Dylan. The film is about an aging Pat Garrett (Coburn), hired as a lawman by a group of wealthy New Mexico cattle barons to bring down his old friend Billy the Kid (Kristofferson).