Young Billy Young
by Burt Kennedy
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Actor: Angie Dickinson, Bob Anderson, Parley Baer, Rodopho (Rudy) Acosta, Willis B. BoucheyDirector: Burt Kennedy
Brand: Sony
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 89 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-05-12
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
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Movie Review: "Somebody came to town"
Summary: 4 Stars
Ben Kane (Robert Mitchum) has been cleaning up bad towns for over 20 years, but for the last decade or so one longing has possessed him: to catch up with the man named Boone who murdered his teenage son in Dodge City. Arriving in Bisbee, Arizona, to inquire about a lawman's position, he's told that it's basically what he considers "a boy's job"--the town of Lordsburg, which is in Bisbee's district, is plagued by "trouble and a year's worth of back taxes." But when he learns that the trouble is caused by Boone (John Anderson), he changes his mind. Meanwhile, the youthful gunslinger Billy Young (Robert Walker), fresh from a gun job in Mexico where he was abandoned to escape on his own by Boone's son Jesse (David Carradine), crosses Kane's path and, through a series of unexpected events, they become on-again-off-again allies. Their relationship is rocky to say the least--each one lays the other out once or twice--yet Billy soon finds himself looking up to Kane and unwilling to allow him to use Jesse as a pawn in his quest to avenge his own son's death. Kane has also met Lily Beloit (Angie Dickinson, who also appeared in Rio Bravo (Two-Disc Special Edition), which was later remade as El Dorado, in which Mitchum starred with John Wayne), the saloon dancer who is the mistress of Boone's ally, saloonowner John Behan (Jack Kelly), while Billy finds himself attracted to--and defending Kane to--Evvie Cushman (Deana Martin), the daughter of Lordsburg's doctor. A sudden siege of the jail brings the two unlikely allies together again and is broken with the aid of Kane's old friend, stagecoach driver Charlie (Paul Fix).
Directed by Western stalwart Burt Kennedy (who was also responsible for such titles as Support Your Local Gunfighter/Support Your Local Sheriff, The Train Robbers, The War Wagon, and The Good Guys and the Bad Guys (another Mitchum vehicle--see my review), and very loosely adapted from a Will Henry novel that was actually about Wyatt Earp (the only thing that survives from the original is the name of John Behan, who, better known as "Johnny," was the county sheriff with whom the Earp brothers butted heads on several occasions), this little-known Western features two sympathetic characters who play off each other well; Walker is especially noteworthy for his believable portrayal of a young man who's "quick with a gun and not afraid of the devil or anyone else," yet wavering between good and evil--the kind of youth whose life will be irrevocably changed by his meeting with a man like Kane. It might have benefited from a bit more exposition in the script (why has it taken Kane so long to find out where Boone went after Dodge? Was Lordsburg always Boone's headquarters, and was he always a power there?), and Lily's assertion that no "decent" man would want her after her years in saloons rings a little false to me (in the West, women as well as men were judged less on their pasts than on what they were and did in the present), but it offers a good if prickly "buddy" relationship (I've always liked "buddy" films), humor, and action, and it moves along quickly and enjoyably. It definitely deserves to be better known.
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