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than most people give him credit
for. In his seven films as director,
he has demonstrated an extraordinary
ability to elicit strong
performances from actors
(himself included) whose ranges of
emotions are limited, to say the
least.
From his behind-the-camera
debut, the chilling Play Misty For
Me, through his underrated 1978
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knowledge in the technical aspects
of filmmaking has progressed to
the point where he can control a
picture's pace and point-of-view
with the best of them. ,
Eastwood's new film, Bronco
Billy, in which he also stars, is his
first foray into comedy and, while
it isn't on the same level as a
Woody Allen film or a Mel Brooks
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moviegoers could sit through it and
ot laugh out loud at least once or
twice.
Bronco Billy tells the story c
former New Jersey shoe salesn
Billy McCoy (Eastwood), who now
makes a living by living a fable.
He's the horse-riding, sharp
shooting, knifethrowing owneroperator
of a traveling Wild West
show that's forever on the verge of
going broke.
But Billy continues to push on,
partly because he doesn't want to
disappoint "the little pardners and
buckaroos" that turn out to see
him each year, and partly because
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he still hopes to strike it rich in the
peculiar fringe area of show
business he's chosen*to mine.
Billy isn't too bright, as you
might imagine, but he isn't a
fraud, either, and that's what
makes him so lovable. He really
believes he's setting a fine
example for the kids in his
audience, and when he cautions
them about playing hookey from
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.ctiool and forgetting to say their
prayers, he's as sincere as a priest.
The only problem in Billy's
world, aside from the fact that his
performers keep threatening to
walk out if they're not paid, is the
lack of an assistant ? a pretty girl
to toss plates into the air for his
sharpshooting act and to serve as
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the target for his knife-throwing
stunt. (Billy's lack of proficiency
in the latter area seems to be the
main reason why an assistant is so
hard to noid on to.)
Enter Antoinette Lily (Sondra
Locke), a spoiled heiress who's
been abandoned, literally without
a dime, by her foppish husband,
Jeff (Geoffrey Lewis). Billy picks
her up somewhere in Idaho and
offers to take her back to
civilization if she'll help him out
until he can find a permanent
assistant. Reluctantly, she agrees.
Within a day or two, however,
Antoinette's mother's lawyer has
found John and bribed him into
confessing to Antoinette's murder.
From that point on, logic is not one
of the strong suits of Dennis
Hackin's script. Eastwood
downplays most of the comic-strip
aspects of the movie's second half,
though, by keeping the performances
from slipping into the
caricatures they might easily have
become under a less resourceful
director.
On only one occasion does
Eastwood resort to the human
punching-bag vulgarity of James
Fargo's redneck travesty, Every
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the rest of Bronco Billy is so enjoyable,
he can be forgiven a single
lapse in good taste.
This is the fourth film in which
Eastwood and Locke have been
paired romantically (The Outlaw
? Josey Wales, The Gauntlet and
Loose were the first three), and
they manage to throw off a great
many sparks, even though Locke
never manages to make Antoinette
a very likeable character.
Among the supporting players,
Lewis is first-rate, as are Scatman
Crothers as the show's ringmaster,
Sam Bottoms as a lasso twirler,
Bill McKinney as a one-handed
trick-shot artist ("I told you that
shotgun act wouldn't work," Billy
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