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Billy Two Hats

  • 19741974
  • PGPG
  • 1h 39m
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6.3/10
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Billy Two Hats (1974)
After a bank robbery, runaway Scottish outlaw Arch Deans and his young half breed Kiowa partner Billy Two Hats develop a father-son relationship but Sheriff Henry Gifford is determined to capture or kill them.
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After a bank robbery, runaway Scottish outlaw Arch Deans and his young half breed Kiowa partner Billy Two Hats develop a father-son relationship but Sheriff Henry Gifford is determined to ca... Read allAfter a bank robbery, runaway Scottish outlaw Arch Deans and his young half breed Kiowa partner Billy Two Hats develop a father-son relationship but Sheriff Henry Gifford is determined to capture or kill them.After a bank robbery, runaway Scottish outlaw Arch Deans and his young half breed Kiowa partner Billy Two Hats develop a father-son relationship but Sheriff Henry Gifford is determined to capture or kill them.
IMDb RATING
6.3/10
1.5K
YOUR RATING
    • Ted Kotcheff
    • Alan Sharp
  • Stars
    • Gregory Peck
    • Desi Arnaz Jr.
    • Jack Warden
    • Ted Kotcheff
    • Alan Sharp
  • Stars
    • Gregory Peck
    • Desi Arnaz Jr.
    • Jack Warden
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    • 25User reviews
    • 14Critic reviews
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    Gregory Peck
    Gregory Peck
    • Arch Deans
    Desi Arnaz Jr.
    Desi Arnaz Jr.
    • Billy Two Hats
    Jack Warden
    Jack Warden
    • Sheriff Henry Gifford
    David Huddleston
    David Huddleston
    • Copeland, Saloon Owner
    Sian Barbara Allen
    Sian Barbara Allen
    • Esther Spencer
    John Pearce
    John Pearce
    • Spencer
    Dawn Little Sky
    • Copeland's Squaw
    Vincent St. Cyr
    • Indian Leader
    • (as W. Vincent St. Cyr)
    Henry Medicine Hat
    • Indian
    Zeev Berlinsky
    Zeev Berlinsky
    • Indian
    • (as Zev Berlinsky)
    Antony Scott
    • Indian
    Vic Armstrong
    Vic Armstrong
    • Harry Sweets Bradley
    • (uncredited)
      • Ted Kotcheff
      • Alan Sharp
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    • Trivia
      Irony was that the film, supposed to take place in Arizona, was made in Israel, on the actual site where King David battled against enemy tribes, whilst David and Bathsheba - which Gregory Peck also played in starring King David - was shot in Arizona. So, in the first film Israel substituted Arizona, and in the second, Arizona replaced Israel.
    • Quotes

      Esther Spencer: Billy Two Hats? How did you get a name like that?

      Billy Two Hats: Well, my mother was a Kiowa and I don't know who my father was except he was white. My mother didn't know too much about him neither, except she told me he was kind of important. She said that in his room he had two hats - one for special and one for ordinary. That impressed my mother a whole lot. And when I was a kid it impressed me.

    • Connections
      Featured in A New Breed: Ted Kotcheff Remembers Billy Two Hats (2015)

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    8/10
    Underrated western... or maybe just not seen by enough people?
    I think this movie is underrated as a western. Or maybe it's just under-seen, which is really a pity. With nice color photography, it's got some really great western visuals, a meaty storyline, a collection of disparate characters whose fates you really start to care about, and some memorable, quotable dialogue here and there. Jack Warden is excellent as a gruff frontier sheriff "just doing his job," as it were. He's a toned-down and more accessible version of Gene Hackman's over-the-top bastardly sheriff in "Unforgiven." Gregory Peck, playing a words-of-wisdom-spouting Scottish outlaw with a big heart, is really quite good with his Scottish accent (no, it's not perfect, but passable), and has some memorable lines. Desi Arnaz Jr. is quite the sympathetic character as a half-breed Kiowa Indian outlaw being brought to justice by the sheriff. The supporting cast is quite good, and oh.. that nasty little band of outlaw Apaches they run into is truly a scary lot. You can't help but wonder how many white settlers they raped, murdered and pillaged.

    All in all, the movie is packed with memorable western images and meaningful lines of dialogue . See it if you get a chance. I'd love for this movie to get more air time.
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    • Jun 28, 2010

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    • Release date
      • March 7, 1974 (West Germany)
      • United States
      • United Kingdom
      • Israel
      • English
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      • Israel
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      • Algonquin
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    • 1 hour 39 minutes
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