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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780790751566
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0790751569
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 01, 2000
Running Time: 116 minutes
Sales Rank: 30617
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: June 11, 1980
Editorial Review:
Description:
An heiress flees from her ill-advised wedding and joins a ragtag Wild West show run by a self-made matinee cowboy hero.
Amazon.com essential video:
Clint Eastwood tried to get mellow--and/or funny--with a series of films in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Bronco Billy works better than most (certainly better than those monkey movies he made), though it's far from perfect. Still, there's something charming about Eastwood as a cowboy wannabe who runs his own version of a Wild West show in modern times. The show is ragged and his sharp-shooting skills are suspect, but he's having fun. At least until a runaway heiress (Sondra Locke) joins his second-rate band of buddies and proves to be both a divisive and jeopardizing force and who ultimately forces Eastwood to admit to his New Jersey roots. Eastwood is nice in a relaxed mood, but one wonders (as he must at this point) what he saw in Locke. --Marshall Fine
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Clint Carries on the Classic Tradition of the West
Bronco Billy is a character in the tradition of classic westerns of the 20th century. Billy is fair and honest, and he watches out for children. Except for some of the things he does, Bronco Billy bears some resemblance to Roy Rogers. However, when Billy does not get his way, which seems to happen a lot, he can be manipulative.
One of Bronco Billy's biggest problems is getting a young woman to be an assistant. Being an assistant for Billy involves being a target for knives, holding ... Read More
Rating: - A real charmer
Despite its mixed reception and disappointing box-office, Eastwood's Bronco Billy may not be the blockbuster the studio pitched it as (it was released on the largest number of screens ever at the time) but it's certainly not the disaster it's sometimes painted. A Thirties-style screwball comedy about an ex-shoe salesman and his band of misfits and dreamers whose travelling show becomes the hideout for a runaway heiress (a miscast and very unsympathetic Sondra Locke, whose conversion to proletarian good ... Read More
Rating: - A charming sleeper.
I've always liked this film a great deal and I can't honestly say why. It's hardly a memorable achievement in terms of filmmaking. However, there is something so true and honest about Clint's Bronco Billy that has never failed to grab me. He plays the everyday man dragging along his childhood dream and wanting to be, at the very least, someone with something to offer, regardless of how silly it may be. There's this open sincerity in both his performance and direction, that though the latter sometimes ... Read More
Rating: - A charming film, though a little too much corn, but I can forgive that...
This film is quite corny at times, but it's sincere, and that makes up for a lot of the corn. Clint (who also directs) plays a cowboy in charge of an old fashioned, travelling rodeo show. He has a bunch of rag tag people in his company, but they have a deep sense of community, and they do care for each other. Billy ends up in many jams in this film, but his "family" stick it out, with a little help from the people around the country that Bronco Billy has performed for before. They even take in a rich ... Read More
Rating: - I really wanted to see Beverlee McKinsey!
Since daytime actress Beverlee McKinsey has left daytime in 1992, I needed to get my Beverlee fix. She appears briefly in this film as the wicked stepmother of course to Sondra Locke's character. She has a few scenes but other than that I didn't care for the movie in general. Beverlee has a lot of fans who want to see more of her but she is a reclusive retiree in Southern California of all places where the film, television, and theatre industry could use her nowadays.
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