b_kite Review of Dirty Little Billy

Dirty Little Billy (1972)

A gritty and dirty take on one america's most notorious outlaws.

[7/10 · 1 August 2018]

"Dirty Little Billy" is exactly what it's title indicates, "It's Dirty". Michael J. Pollard of "Bonnie and Clyde" fame stars in a role which is pretty much tailor made for him. This movie takes everything you've learned of the legend and turns it upside down, portraying the kid as a dirty not all there gutter punk, who manages to wonder into a muddy hellish town and falls into good graces with a crazed saloon keeper. Most of the action is kept to a minimum, up until the end with most of the movie being a character study inside the saloon, but, what we do get is pretty cruel and unforgiving. If there ever was a definition of a Acid Western this would defiantly be it. The ending sets up the legend which we all would come to know, but, this is defiantly a fresh take on a common legend witch goes for the dirty and gritty and doesn't fall into the tropes of the usual far about the outlaw.