Trailer
Plot summary
Bronco Billy McCoy owns and headlines a traveling Wild West show that plays to small crowds, and he has gone six months without paying his performers, who stay with him anyway. For the finale, his assistant Mitzi Fritts is injured and quits. In the next town, heiress Antoinette Lily is stranded at a motel when John Arlington, the husband she married to secure her inheritance, drives off with her money, her luggage and the repaired car. She asks Billy for help, and he takes her on as his assistant under the name Miss Lily for a single performance. She invents her own lines, which pleases the audience and annoys Billy.
Cast
- Beverlee McKinseyas Irene Lily
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Bronco Billy (1980)
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- Merle Haggard's "Misery and Gin", from the Bronco Billy soundtrack, was a number one country hit, and his duet with Clint Eastwood, "Bar Room Buddies", reached number 3 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. The album, headlined by Haggard and Ronnie Milsap, also featured Eastwood singing.
