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Watch: Bronco Billy 1980 123movies, Full Movie Online – “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..
Plot: 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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Ratings:

	6.1/10 Votes: 12,026
	75% | RottenTomatoes
	66/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 203 Popularity: 13.282 | TMDB

Reviews:

***Amusing Eastwood dramedy about a Wild West Show with a good cast***

A small, struggling Wild West Show consisting of several misfits travels through Montana & Idaho wherein they stumble upon a haughty heiress (Sondra Locke) whom the honest owner (Clint Eastwood) hires as his assistant in the show.

“Bronco Billy” (1980) is an Eastwood dramedy in the manner of “Every Which Way But Loose” (1978), but with maybe less goofiness in the side characters. While not as successful at the box office, it’s every bit as good in its likable, low-key amusing way. The movie’s about redemption and pursuing your dreams, persevering through challenges and acquiring spiritual (true) family.

The movie scores pretty well on the female front with Locke, Tessa Richarde (Mitzi Fritts) and
Cha Cha Sandoval-McMahon, aka Tanya Russell (Doris Duke).

There’s an interesting sequence involving Billy acquiescing to the posturing Sheriff where you have to read between the lines. It was a matter of stroking the Sheriff’s ego and letting him believe what he wanted to believe in order to achieve what Billy wanted. Let the cop have his dreamworld, Billy seems to think. This principle is taught in the now-ancient (but still relevant) hit book “How to Win Friends and Influence People”: Human beings in general, and especially authority figures, WANT to feel important and respected; it’s a basic human desire. When pulled over, too many people needlessly argue with the officer and treat him/her with disrespect, which inevitably lands them an expensive ticket or worse. A little bit of humility & respect (reasonable kowtowing) saves a lot of unnecessary hassles and helps acquire what you want. Sometimes it’s wise to eat humble pie; the gains are worth it.

The film runs 1 hour, 56 minutes, and was shot in the Boise, Idaho, area, but also Ontario, Oregon.

GRADE: A-

A fairly triumphant circus flick.

‘Bronco Billy’ is enjoyably paced and features good onscreen talent, as we see Clint Eastwood continuing his work with many familiar faces from his other films – including Sondra Locke, Geoffrey Lewis and Bill McKinney; shame about the ill-fitting casting of Dan Vadis and Sierra Pecheur, mind.

Naturally it isn’t the perfect film, given the aforementioned and the nosedive of Locke’s character from being strong-minded to being a cliché dainty love interest, but it succeeds in making its story gain a bit of feeling. It also feels a tiny bit of a different role for Eastwood, given his character is quite caring – as opposed to the usual self-indulged roles, which he does very well of course.

It kinda gives me ‘Toby Tyler‘ vibes, though this 1980 production is most definitely better than that average 1960 Disney release.

Nice little gem from Eastwood
I just saw Bronco Billy for the first time in its entirety tonight on DVD. This film has to be one of Eastwood’s most underrated films. It’s mainly a light comedy with some touches of drama thrown in. While Clint’s in fine form in one of his few comedic roles the highlight is easily Scatman Crothers as Doc. He shines in each of his scenes and is the film’s most likable character.

Is the film a classic? No. But it does have a lot of heart and I ended up caring about what happened to Billy and his wild west show. It’s not too hard to see why this is one of Clint’s personal favorite films. I think the film has a good message too. And that is if you do good deeds then good luck might just come your way. Even though he is a flawed character Billy does have a good heart and performs shows for the underprivileged for free.

If you are a in the mood for a film that will make you feel good for two hours then Bronco Billy is for you.

My rating: 7/10

Lets hear a cheer for everyone’s favourite cowboy.
Bronco Billy the sharpshooting cowboy is the owner of a modern-day travelling Wild West Show that seems to get caught in one messy situation after another. And not helping is the lack of crowd figures to their show. But nothing is going to stop Bronco Billy along with his companions from living their American dream. Through some amusing chain of events a wealthy, snobby heiress Antoinette Lilly finds herself tagging along with the show and becoming one of Bronco Billy’s assistant, after her new husband leaves her stranded with nothing.

I don’t understand why they think this cap gun shoots nothing but blanks. While, Eastwood (who directs and stars) goes all sentimental, warm and fuzzy for a change. It wasn’t as well accepted (despite it being one of Eastwood’s favourites) and flopped at the box office with it receiving such poor jabs from most critics. Not to say it’s great, but this comically light-hearted character journey has a certain amount of charm within its foundation that doesn’t make it as bad as you would believe. Even with this whimsical nature, it never gets overbearing. Sure it can cause you to cringe at times, but it wears its heart on its sleeve and keeps it integrity intact. More often I found myself smiling at the shenanigans, well it was hard not to. It’s simply a satire worked into an old-fashioned story of familiar ingredients, were there was plenty of things going on in the plot. Who knew these traditional plot devices could maintain such interest. This is because of a delightful bunch of wholesome performances, authentically zippy purple patches of random fun and Eastwood’s conventionally hardy direction makes sure it ticks along sufficiently. Even if it’s nicely shot, there’s nothing overly flashy or quirky creeping up, so it’s all about the loyal chemistry and assured story that keeps one compelled. Streamlining the moralistic story are deep insights and symbolic brushes of the true feeling of the American dream. You got to earn it, as it’s not served on up on a plate for you and from that you make the most out of it to live up to ‘your’ dreams. Pacing-wise it can stall in stretches, but I didn’t find it boring when that did occur. The stock characters here seem to be grounded by reality, despite some silly developments (mainly involving a mental institution). The relaxed Clint Eastwood chimes in with a wonderfully touching performance. He simply chews up the material with great vigour. A terrific Sandra Locke has a screen presence that’s equally as dominating in the role of the stuck-up, cold-blooded high-end dame. Eastwood regular Geoffrey Lewis’ oddball greedy turn was marvellously madcap. The performances of Sam Bottoms, Dan Vadis, Sierra Pecheur and Bill McKinney are pleasurably sincere as Eastwood’s ragtag team.

If there’s one Eastwood film that’s unfairly lampooned. “Bronco Billy” gets my vote. This gratifying show must go on.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 56 min (116 min), 1 hr 59 min (119 min) (Argentina)
Budget 6500000
Revenue 24265583
Status Released
Rated PG
Genre Action, Adventure, Comedy
Director Clint Eastwood
Writer Dennis Hackin
Actors Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Geoffrey Lewis
Country United States
Awards 2 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Panaflex Cameras and Lenses by Panavision
Laboratory DeLuxe, Hollywood (CA), USA (color)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm