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What is remarkable about Dirty Little Billy is the fervor with which its director has seized upon each thumping bromide of the anti-western and put them all on review, like a rodeo parade. Dragoti, formerly a director of television commercials, ought to have developed some expertise in manipulating an audience-but Dirty Little Billy, his first movie, is a shambling, enervating exercise...
Directed by STAN DRAGOTI Screenplay by CHARLES MOSS and STAN DRAGOTI...
...holds down the title role, this movie is, alas, a Pollard vehicle. In fact, Pollard is physically right for the part, although with his bulbous cheeks and cretinous eyes, he looks a bit like Dopey. However, he acts more like all the Seven Dwarfs-simultaneously. Instead of directing him, Dragoti indulges him. Pollard either mopes or mugs in every scene, and cruelly prolongs every line of dialogue that he cannot swallow entirely. There are some good secondary performances, though: by Charles Aidman as a sort of Babbitt aborning, Lee Purcell as a wilted prairie flower, and Dran Hamilton as Billy...