Dirty Little Billy
| Dirty Little Billy | |
|---|---|
Sascha Burland | |
| Color process | Eastmancolor |
Production company | WRG/Dragoti Productions Ltd. |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
Release dates |
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Running time | 92 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Dirty Little Billy is a 1972 American
Plot
A tough and violent portrait of a psychopathic, yet fresh-faced youth—the infamous Billy the Kid in his grimy early days.
Cast
- Michael J. Pollard as Billy Bonney
- Richard Evans as "Goldie"
- Lee Purcell as Berle
- Charles Aidman as Ben Antrim
- Dran Hamilton as Catherine McCarty
- Willard Sage as Henry McCarty
- Mills Watson as Ed
- Alex Wilson as Len
- Ronny Graham as Charles Nile
- Josip Elic as "Jawbone"
- Richard Stahl as Earl Lovitt
- Gary Busey as Basil Crabtree
- Dick Van Patten as Berle's Customer
- Scott Walker as "Stormy"
- Rosary Nix as "Louisiana"
- Frank Welker as Young Punk
- Craig Bovia as Buffalo Hunter
- Severn Darden as Jim "Big Jim" McDaniel
- Henry Proach as Lloyd
- Len Lesser as "Slits"
- Ed Lauter as Tyler
Release
The film premiered at the San Francisco Film Festival on October 20, 1972 before opening at the Vogue Theatre in San Francisco five days later.[1][2]
Reception
Steven Puchalski wrote in Shock Cinema magazine:
This is not typical, Tinseltown western though. It's more like The Making of a Sociopath, with Michael J. Pollard starring as displaced, 17-year-old Billy Bonney, in the days leading up to his evolution into the notorious Billy the Kid ... this is the perfect role for Pollard. And though a little old to play a teenager (he was 33), he hands us a Billy who's perpetually victimized by bad luck, until he finally blows a gasket at the very end and sparks his future.[3]
See also
References
- ^ a b Dirty Little Billy at the American Film Institute Catalog
- ^ Archive.org.
- ^ Puchalski, Steven (1996). "DIRTY LITTLE BILLY (1972)". Shock Cinema. Shock Cinema Magazine.
