Young Billy Young (1969)

INFORMATION FROM IMDb

Plot Summary
A peace-loving man named Ben Kane takes a job as deputy marshal of Lordsburg,
in the old West. Kane is no lawman, but he accepts the badge
because he has an old score to settle with the town's chief trouble-maker.
Once on the job, Kane must also deal with a young sharpshooter named Billy Young
and a sharp and sassy saloon dancer, Lily.
Written by Dan Navarro

Cast
Robert Mitchum ... Deputy Ben Kane
Angie Dickinson ... Lily Beloit
Robert Walker Jr. ... Billy Young (as Robert Walker)
David Carradine ... Jesse Boone
Jack Kelly ... John Behan
John Anderson ... Boone
Paul Fix ... Charlie
Willis Bouchey ... Doc Cushman
Parley Baer ... Bell
Robert Anderson ... Gambler (as Bob Anderson)
Rodolfo Acosta ... Mexican Officer
Deana Martin ... Evvie
Christopher Mitchum ... (uncredited)
and more....

Directed
Burt Kennedy

Writing Credits
Burt Kennedy ... (screenplay)
Heck Allen ... (novel) (as Will Henry)

Produced
J. Paul Popkin ... associate producer
Max E. Youngstein ... producer

Music
Shelly Manne

Cinematography
Harry Stradling Jr. ... director of photography

Trivia
Robert Mitchum said he intended to retire from acting when this movie
filming in August 1968, but in the following year he agreed to star in Ryan's Daughter (1970).

Less than a year before this movie released, Mitchum co-starred with Dean Martin
in another western titled 5 Card Stud.
Unsurprisingly, as a popular crooner, Martin sang the title song for that movie,
as he had for several other movies in which he appeared.
In response, and despite the fact he was not known for his singing ability,
Mitchum insisted on recording the title song to this movie.

Despite being top billed Robert Mitchum does not turn up until 17 minutes into the film.
Leading lady Angie Dickinson does not appear until around 43 minutes.

Robert Mitchum earned $200,000.

Goofs
Anachronisms
The train locomotive is obviously of twentieth century construction.
It has a steel cab, tender type, piston design and rod arrangement not available until the early 1900s.

Audio/visual unsynchronised
At the beginning of the movie, when the train is going down the tracks, a train whistle sounds.
However, no steam comes from the train's whistle, just the black smoke from its smokestack.
This is obviously an added-in sound effect.

Continuity
When Ben Kane knocks out Billy Young in the jail house
and makes a break through the gunfire for the corral,
the 4 horses in the corral get spooked and break down the corral fence and run off.
Moments later, a stagecoach shows up and hightails it by the corral, and the horses are back in the corral.

As Billy watches Kane ride away with Lily, he grasps his belt.
In the final shot, he watches the stage leave with his arms at his sides.

Crew or equipment visible
When Jesse Boone (David Carradine) and Billy Young(Robert Walker)
jump their horses off the flatbed train car, Billy is flogging his horse with his rifle barrel
and you can see the rifle flex, it's obviously a rubber stage prop.

Revealing mistakes
When Deputy Kane was on the stagecoach and it as attacked by robbers,
he shot the first one, who fell and dragged his horse with him.
When he hit the ground, his pistol was in the holster, even though he was just firing it when he was shot.

Lily was on stage and Kane went in the back to find her room.
He opened the first door to his right and it was occupied.
He went to the next room to his right and went in.
A minute later, Lily came in through a set of curtains on the right wall,
which was the common wall between her room and the one that Kane went into by mistake just a minute before.

In close-ups of the to
of the locomotive, the wires holding the prop smokestack in place are visible.

In the confrontation between Kane (Robert Mitchum) and Frank Boone (John Anderson),
Kane positions himself atop Charlie's (Paul Fix)
When Kane shoots Boone there's a quick cut to Boone lying on the ground.
When the camera comes back to the coach, Kane is sitting next to Charlie,
but after another quick cutaway, Kane is back on top of the coach.

Quotes
John Behan: How would you boys like to pick up a little extra spending money?
Jesse Boone: I figure as long as it ain't legal.

Lily Beloit: Sometimes it comes in handy to know improper ladies.

Filming Locations
Old Tucson - 201 S. Kinney Road, Tucson, Arizona, USA
Tucson, Arizona, USA

Young Billy Young is a 1969 western movie starring
Robert Mitchum and featuring Angie Dickinson, Robert Walker, Jr. (in the title role),
David Carradine, Jack Kelly (who plays a villain and dresses exactly
as he had for his role on television's Maverick), Deana Martin and Paul Fix.

The film was written by Heck Allen (from his novel)
and Burt Kennedy, and directed by Kennedy.

Look out for Dean Martin's daughter Deana
and Duke's 'Pals' Paul Fix, and Christopher Mitchum,
son of the star Robert Mitchum

User Review

Robert Mitchum is magnificent as a valiant sheriff along with a gorgeous Angie Dickinson as a Saloon girl
5 July 2006 | by ma-cortes

Quote from ma

The film is based on Will Henry novel titled ¨Who rides with Wyatt Earp¨ , it is starred by Deputy Ben Kane (Robert Mitchum) , before working as a policeman in Wichita (Kansas) and as town marshal assistant of Dodge City (Kansas) , he served other towns like well being narrated in this film . Earp was a man of cool courage and gunfighting skill , he was hired as a shotgun by the authorities and became the town marshal . Here is developed his friendship with a young gunman called Billy (Robert Walker Jr.) who results to be actually Johnny Ringo , a subsequent enemy and along with Clanton-McLaury faction resulted on 26 October 1881 the explosive showdown known as ¨the Gunfight at the OK Corral¨ .

This exciting picture contains sensational main actor casting and a character-full supporting cast . Robert Mitchum as brave sheriff , although affected for previous death , is astounding , his character has a backbone of bitterness somewhere deep inside . Robert Mitchum said he intended to retire from acting when this movie finished filming in late 1968 , but in the following year he agreed to star in Ryan's daughter (1970). Despite being top billed Robert Mitchum does not turn up until 19 minutes into the film . Robert Walker as impetuous gunman is cool , he makes a similar role to Ricky Nelson in ¨Rio Bravo¨ . Angie Dickinson repeats her usual character as Saloon call-girl . Paul Fix as stagecoach driver makes a role likeness to Walter Brennan . The film was well directed by Burt Kennedy . An eighty per cent of this American director's movies have been Western , bad , good and indifferent in equal proportions . He made delightful and tremendously agreeable Westerns (Support you local Sheriff , Support your local gunfighter) but also realized objectionable ,duds , muddled and disastrous Westerns , though his greatest success was as screenwriter of the splendid series Boetticher-Scott in the late 50s (Tall T , Ride lonesome , Comanche station) . This motion picture will appeal to Robert Mitchum and Angie Dickinson fans.