Archive for category: Clint Eastwood

Review: Bronco Billy

22 September, 2009 (07:23) | Clint Eastwood, Film Reviews, by Pierre Greenfield | By: Pierre Greenfield

[Originally published in Movietone News 66-67, March 1981]
Clint Eastwood’s seventh excursion as director takes a stab at the territory of rustic fun, presumably as a followup to James Fargo’s Eastwood-starred Every Which Way But Loose. The problem is that the screenplay for Bronco Billy, which details the adventures of a modern-day cowboy and his tatterdemalion [...]

Review: Bronco Billy

22 September, 2009 (06:22) | Clint Eastwood, Film Reviews, Westerns, by Robert C. Cumbow | By: Robert C. Cumbow

[Originally published in slightly different form in Movietone News 66-67, March 1981]
For his summer 1980 film, Clint Eastwood has chosen a sentimental, often corny script that layers screwball comedy conventions over the meanderings of a band of misfits who make a lifestyle, if not a living, out of being what they [...]