Verinen pako – Finnish title
Un colt pour une corde – French title
Begrabt die Wölfe in der Schlucht– German title
Oi Paranomoi - Greek title
Billy dos sombreros – Spanish title
Halvblodet – Swedish title
Den halvblods & den loulose - ? title
The Lady and the Outlaw – U.S.A. title
Billy Two Hats – U.S.A. title
A 1973 Israeli production [Algonquin Film Productions (Tel Aviv)]
Producer: Norman Jewison, Patrick Palmer
Director: Ted Kotcheff (William Kotcheff)
Story: Alan Sharp
Screenplay: Alan Sharp
Cinematography: Brian West [Technicolor, Panavision]
Music: John Scott (Patrick Scott)
Running time: 99 minutes
Cast:
Arch Deans - Gregory Peck (Eldred Peck)
Billy Two Hats - Desi Arnaz, Jr. (Desiderio Arnaz de Acha IV)
Sheriff Henry Gifford - Jack Warden (Jack Lebzelter)
Copeland - David Huddleston
Esther Spencer - Sian Barbara Allen (Barbara Pokrass)
Spencer - John Pearce
Copeland’s squaw - Dawn Little Sky
Indians - Vincent Sr. Cyr (W. St. Cyr), Henry Medicine Hat, Ze’ev Berlinsky, Anthony Scott
Though Desi Arnaz, Jr. plays the title role of Billy, Gregory Peck is top billed in Billy Two Hats. Arnaz plays a thief who teams up with Scottish bank bandit Arch Deans (Peck). A botched robbery results in a tiny amount of cash and an accidental killing. Peck rescues the captured Billy, enduring a leg wound in the process. While resting in the home of an old rancher, Peck goes off in search of a doctor, while Billy enjoys the sexual favors of the rancher's young wife, Esther Spence (Sian Barbara Allen). This interruption in the bandits' escape enables Indian-hating sheriff Jack Warden, an Indian hating Sheriff, to catch up with Arnaz and Peck. A last-reel shoot-out ensues, involving sheriff's deputies, the rancher, and a band of Indian renegades. Billy Two Hats (reissued as The Lady and the Outlaw) was the first American western to be filmed in Israel.
– Hal Erickson
I like to see this one
ReplyDeleteNot really a buddy film, more of a father/son film with lots of talk and not a lot of action. Peck's Scottish accent will get on your nerves after awhile. Jack Warden steals the film with his relentless pursuit of the our two bank robber heroes.
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