
"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 luc... (Full plot summary below)
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"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.
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| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzCharming offbeat Western satire about a modern-day cowboy, directed and starring Clint Eastwood. |
| Chicago TribuneGene SiskelBronco Billy is an odd salute to those clean hearted good guy cowboys like Gene Autry and Roy Rogers, and Clint manages to revel in the glory of that myth despite the fact that he is probably more responsible for making that kind of Western unworkable in modern cinema than anyone else I can think of. |
| eFilmCritic.comRob GonsalvesOne of Clint Eastwood's most enjoyable films. |
| Kansas City KansanSteve CrumEntertaining Eastwood, unusual subject matter. |
| Apollo GuideEd GonzalezEastwood, much like Burt Reynolds' character in Boogie Nights, welcomes everyone into an unconventional but strangely warm environment. |
| Washington PostK.C. SummersLow-key sentiment sets the stage for the new, improved Clint Eastwood -- relaxed, funny and refreshingly human. Bronco Billy is Dirty Harry with a sense of humor. More fun than a saloon full of six-shooters. |
| CinemaniaDan Jardine"The film's sweetly nostalgic tone also conveys Eastwood's deep love of the Wild West and the simple values of the old-fashioned cowboy characters who fantasize about inhabiting it. " |
| Lessons of DarknessNick SchagerAn affectionate ode to the fading myth of the American West. |
| Washington PostGary ArnoldFormally speaking, "Bronco Billy" is a turkey. |
| The New York TimesJanet MaslinThe best and funniest Clint Eastwood movie in quite a while. |