Billy Two Hats

Billy Two Hats (1973)

Genres - Western, Romance, Drama  |   Sub-Genres - Outlaw (Gunfighter) Film, Traditional Western  |   Release Date - Mar 7, 1974 (USA - Unknown), Mar 20, 1974 (USA)  |   Run Time - 80 min.  |   Countries - United States  |   MPAA Rating - PG
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson

Though Desi Arnaz plays the title role, Gregory Peck is top billed in Billy Two Hats. Arnaz plays a thief who teams up with Scottish bank bandit 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. This interruption in the bandits' escape enables Indian-hating sheriff Jack Warden 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.

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law, bad-guy, good-guy, on-the-run, robbery, shoot-out, truth, outlaw [Western], ranch