Bronco Billy (1980)

Bronco Billy: Directed by Clint Eastwood. With Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Geoffrey Lewis, Scatman Crothers. An idealistic, modern-day cowboy struggles to keep his Wild West show afloat in the face of hard luck and waning interest.

“This film is not about Eastwood doing the stock 70u0026#39;s Eastwood, it is not about Sandra Locke, or about any other personu0026#39;s performance. The people in this film are lost, both in the social space of a world they cannot live in and in time. They lack most of the usual human equipment, like faith and hope (see Thomas McGuaneu0026#39;s u0026#39;Panamau0026#39;). But they blunder on, as much by default as by will, in the illusory world of Bronco Billyu0026#39;s road show and guided by Billyu0026#39;s real values, with each other. Like most of Eastwoodu0026#39;s films, Bronco Billy is built around a story, but in this story how it comes out is not important, it is how Billy and this cast of lost souls get there. And the film has one the greatest lines in cinema history: The one Bronco Billy used to tell Antoinette what happened to his wife.”