An idealistic, modern-day cowboy struggles to keep his Wild West show afloat in the face of hard luck and waning interest.An idealistic, modern-day cowboy struggles to keep his Wild West show afloat in the face of hard luck and waning interest.An idealistic, modern-day cowboy struggles to keep his Wild West show afloat in the face of hard luck and waning interest.
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Doug McGrath
- Lt. Wieckeras Lt. Wiecker
- (as Douglas McGrath)
Eyde Byrde
- Maid Eloiseas Maid Eloise
- (as Edye Byrde)
"Bronco" Billy McCoy (Clint Eastwood) is the proud owner of a small travelling Wild West show. But the business isn't doing too well. For the past six months, he hasn't paid his employees. At a gas station he picks up Antoinette Lily (Sondra Locke), a stuck-up blonde from a rich family, who was left behind without a penny by her husband John Arlington (Geoffrey Lewis) on their wedding night. Billy likes her looks and hires her as his assistant. She seems to bring them bad luck and the business gets even worse. In these hard times, she loses her reluctance and starts to like her new way of life, and Bronco Billy. —Tom Zoerner <Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
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a memorable, post-existential film about illusions, reality and the bonds between lost souls
This film is not about Eastwood doing the stock 70's Eastwood, it is not about Sandra Locke, or about any other person's performance. The people in this film are lost, both in the social space of a world they cannot live in and in time. They lack most of the usual human equipment, like faith and hope (see Thomas McGuane's 'Panama'). But they blunder on, as much by default as by will, in the illusory world of Bronco Billy's road show and guided by Billy's real values, with each other. Like most of Eastwood's films, Bronco Billy is built around a story, but in this story how it comes out is not important, it is how Billy and this cast of lost souls get there. And the film has one the greatest lines in cinema history: The one Bronco Billy used to tell Antoinette what happened to his wife.
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- dakangan
- Mar 21, 2004
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