Billy Two Hats (1973)
Director: Ted Kotcheff
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Given that it was scripted by Alan Sharp, who wrote Penn's wonderful Night Moves and Aldrich's Ulzana's Raid, a disappointing attempt to merge serious statements about racial prejudice with a Western pursuit story. Peck is miscast as the ageing Scots outlaw who befriends a half-breed Indian (Arnaz), only to be hounded after a bank raid by Warden's ruthless, bigoted sheriff. Shot in Israel, it looks like Kotcheff was more interested in the scenery than in the characters.Author: GA
Cast & crew
Director: Ted Kotcheff
Producer: Norman Jewison, Patrick Palmer
Cast: Gregory Peck, Desi Arnaz Jr, Jack Warden, Sian Barbara Allen, David Huddleston, John Pearce full cast
Genre(s): Westerns
Duration: 99 mins
Most popular on this site
Features
To the letter
Forty years later, Costa-Gavras's Z still brims with fury.
Mind over matter
David Cronenberg reflects on a most bizarre body: his own corpus of work.
Fool's gold
Can an Oscar win lead to a cursed career? Here are five stories of postaward professional meltdowns.
We are the championed
Terrorists and teens abound in this year's "Film Comment Selects."
A history of violence
Matteo Garrone's kaleidoscopic Gomorrah wallops you with Italy's crime crisis.
True romantic
James Gray exchanges urban amorality for amour in Two Lovers.
Playing in the dark
MoMA salutes pianist Stuart Oderman's 50 years as the one-man sound of silents.
Junk bonds
Cast and crew recall the making of the classic NYC drug drama The Panic in Needle Park.



What do you think?
Post your review now