This isn't Oscar material by any means.... but i had the chance to watch this again one saturday afternoon..(like the westerns when i was a kid)...i'm too young to remember the serials of the 50's the first time around, but i got more than a bargain in re-runs..shows like Roy Rogers really meant something to me. Just like the family visit to a very small theme park called Wild West City. Now grown, Wild West City looks rather shabby, it probably always did, but not to a kid. Bronco Billy shows the shabbiness of the small Wild West show but it also imparts many of the good feelings given by the cowboy shows of old.... I have to think that Clint Eastwood made this his tribute to the genre, i felt the same chills during scenes in the movie that i felt upon seeing Roy Rogers say the "cowboy prayer" in a tribute after his death..the same happy tear when Roy sang "Here's Hopin' " with Clint Black on the tribute cd...and, oh yes, the movie is wrapped around a cute black comedy resembling Overboard with Goldie Hawn. Sondra Locke, his then live-in, is good as the love interest. Through her we learn of Bronco Billy's unique view of the world and the wishful longing that we can all be what we want to be................YOU JUST NEED TO WANT IT BADLY ENOUGH !!! (and reach out to the life that is waiting for us)
Review of Bronco Billy
