CrowdSourcing Experiment: Please Help me Identify a 1970s Western

[4_eyez]

Hey, so I got this idea from a Tumblr post by actor James Urbaniak from some months back. Basically, someone sent an email around asking for help identifying an obscure movie they had seen when they were a kid. The poor person had tried Amazon, cult film fan sites, and even the guy who ran the famous L.A. video store, Jerry’s Video, with no luck.

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mystery western

[dlasky]

Was it "Kid Blue" with Dennis Hopper?

How about this one?

[dlasky]

I love 70's westerns, but your description is not really ringing a bell for me. So I did some googling... Was it "Dirty Little Billy"?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=411qV50ztww

I've never seen it, but it seems to match your description. MUDDY!

In my searching I also learned that there is a term for countercultural Westerns: Acid-Western. But it was only coined in the mid-90's to describe "Dead Man" starring Johnny Depp. I think before Acid-Western, they were simply called Political Westerns.

Re: How about this one?

[4_eyez]

Hey David, Dirty Little Billy certainly fits the description. And I guess they called young Billy the Kid a "punk." I'd have to see more, but it's promising... Thanks for all your research!