Cry for Me, Billy
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Directed by | William A. Graham |
Starring | Cliff Potts |
Music by | Richard Markowitz |
Production company | Brut Productions |
Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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Running time | 93 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Cry for Me, Billy is a 1972 American Western film directed by William A. Graham. It stars Cliff Potts and .[1]
It was also known as Count Your Bullets and was one of the first films from Brut Productions.[2]
Plot[]
Hardened gunslinger Billy is tired of violence and bloodshed. After encountering and giving water to a group of Apache prisoners under the care of a racist US Army sergeant and his men, Billy speaks with a friend about a possible job position far from there. When out, he discovers that all the Indians were murdered save for one girl taken as sex slave for the soldiers.
Billy follows the soldiers in search of the girl that he wants to save, finding that she escaped on her own. After earning her trust, both Billy and the Indian girl named Flower travel together. They come across a cabin where Billy avoids an ambush by the owner and his son, keeping them both at hand with his shotgun. Decided to take some goods from the cabin, the owners offer to sell what he wants for money or in exchange for sex with Flower, to which he reacts angrily, forcing them to run.
Billy and Flower keep their march together in the wilderness using only Billy's horse, until they found a wild horse that Billy domesticates. They fall in love soon after and make love. Then they are found by the Sergeant and his men who were alerted of their whereabouts by the cabin owners. They beat up Billy and tie him to a trunk, kill the wild horse, gang-rape Flower, and steal the remaining horse.
After they leave, Flower releases Billy from his bindings, but when he separates from her temporary she kills herself. Heartbroken, Billy buries Flower and searches for vengeance.
Billy follow the soldiers ambushing them in the middle of the night and kills them. After that he returns to the town willing to take the job his friend offered him in order to leave forever the gunslinger life. While leaving the place, he is shot by the owners of the cabin. In the final credits the footage alongside the lyrics of the song imply that he and Flower are living together in heaven.
Cast[]
- Cliff Potts as Billy
- as Flower
- Harry Dean Stanton as Luke Todd
- Don Wilbanks as Sergeant
- Woody Chambliss as Prospector
- James Gammon as Amos
See also[]
References[]
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on July 17, 2012. Retrieved July 9, 2011.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^ Following the Scent to Brut Film Fest: Following the Scent to Idaho Kilday, Gregg. Los Angeles Times17 Aug 1973: d1.
External links[]
- Cry for Me, Billy at IMDb
- Cry for Me, Billy at Rotten Tomatoes
- Count Your Bullets at TCMDB
- 1972 films
- English-language films
- American films
- American Western (genre) films
- Warner Bros. films
- 1972 Western (genre) films
- Films about Native Americans
- American rape and revenge films
- Films directed by William Graham (director)
- Films scored by Richard Markowitz
- Revisionist Western (genre) films
- 1970s Western (genre) film stubs