Genre: Adventure, Romance, Drama, Showbiz, On The Road, Law, Marriage, Police, Thieves, Farce, Love
Plot: Clint Eastwood's BRONCO BILLY is a funny and poignant depiction of one man's quixotic devotion to the code of the Old West and traditional American values. Billy (Eastwood) leads his ragtag crew of performers as they travel the countryside, putting on their bare bones Wild West show for sparse crowds. Billy's not an easy man to work for, and he and his bunch barely make a living, but they are pursuing their dreams. When Antoinette Lily (Sondra Locke, in a somewhat shrill performance), a snooty heiress abandoned by her husband, joins the group, their luck seems to run out, and Billy has to find a way to keep them together. As in THE OUTLAW JOSIE WALES, Eastwood plays the patriarch of an ethnically diverse makeshift family. It would be easy to dismiss Billy, to laugh at his corny devotion to outmoded values and old-fashioned entertainment. Like Eastwood himself, Billy's not even a real cowboy. But, gradually, the audience comes to admire him for his fierce devotion to his crew and his insistence on showing the "li'l pards" in his audience not just a good time but also a dream of striving to live life as who they want to be.
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| Directed by |
Clint Eastwood
Mystic River, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Bird |
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| Cast |
Clint Eastwood
Million Dollar Baby, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Unforgiven |
| Geoffrey Lewis
Maverick, The Devil's Rejects, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil |
 | Sondra Locke
The Outlaw Josey Wales, Sudden Impact, Every Which Way But Loose | Scatman Crothers
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Shining, The Transformers: The Movie | | Sam Bottoms
Apocalypse Now, Seabiscuit, The Outlaw Josey Wales | Dan Vadis
High Plains Drifter, Every Which Way But Loose, Any Which Way You Can | |
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| Music By |
Steve Dorff
Blast from the Past, Dudley Do-Right, Pink Cadillac | Snuff Garrett
Smokey and the Bandit II, Hard Time, Hard Time: Hostage Hotel |
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