Cinema: Sick Shooter

DIRTY LITTLE BILLY

Directed by STAN DRAGOTI Screenplay by CHARLES MOSS and STAN DRAGOTI

From early sound epics featuring Johnny Mack Brown to Arthur Penn's The Left-Handed Gun, there have been many attempts to dramatize either the inglorious life or the tarnished legend of William H. Bonney—otherwise known as Billy the Kid. Dirty Little Billy, however, is the first to deal with Billy while he is still literally a kid, a punk adolescent just learning to shoot, to booze, to whore and to stay up past midnight. Billy is an eager pupil.

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