Bronco Billy is a 1980 American Western comedy-drama film starring Clint Eastwood and Sondra Locke.

For the show's finale, a blindfolded Bronco Billy shoots balloons around a female assistant strapped onto a revolving wooden disc.

Due to poor show attendance, Billy has been unable to pay his crew for the last six months though they stick with him.

She gradually learns that Billy's performers are not actually cowboys, but largely ex-convicts, alcoholics, or both, and have remade their lives into what they want to be.

Billy is a failed shoe salesman from New Jersey who shot his wife in the leg for sleeping with his best friend.

Performers Lorraine Running Water and Chief Big Eagle announce they are expecting a baby together.

They attempt the heist in the antiquated Western way (driving alongside in a car and Billy on horseback to jump on), but a modern train derails their effort.

Antoinette returns to her luxurious life, but she is bored and misses Billy, who drowns his loneliness with alcohol.

Eastwood received Dennis Hackin and Neal Dobrofsky's script and decided to join the film with Sondra Locke.

[13] Although the film grossed 4-5 times its cost (some $25 million) during its United States theatrical release, Eastwood considered it insufficient.