A Bullet for Pretty Boy

A Bullet for Pretty Boy (1970)

Defacing public property is against the law... but so is bank robbing, murder and the kind of women Charlie Floyd loved.

A biography of Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd, a gangster who started his career at a young age after seeking revenge for his father's murder.

Date of release
1970-07-15
TMDB
4.1 / 10 (7)
Runtime
1h 29m
Genres
Action, Drama, Crime, Thriller
Director
Larry Buchanan

Casting

Interesting facts

A Bullet for Pretty Boy is a 1970 American action film from director Larry Buchanan. It stars Fabian Forte as gangster Pretty Boy Floyd and co-stars Jocelyn Lane in her final performance before retiring from acting in 1971.

Production

Fabian was signed to make the film in June 1969. Filming took place entirely on location in Texas and was completed by October.

The movie had the largest budget ever given to Buchanan. Buchanan later said his "cue" on the film was Woody Guthrie's 'The Ballad of Pretty Boy Floyd,' which examines the populist folk-hero angle of the outlaw. In particular, he was inspired by Woody's great line about how 'some men will rob you with a six-gun, and some will rob you with a fountain pen'."

The film features Morgan Fairchild in a small role as a gangster's moll. Buchanan later said "I gave her her first job" on the film.

According to one account, halfway through the film AIP executives were worried about the movie being behind schedule and replaced Buchanan with Maury Dexter.

According to Dexter's own memoirs, he went on the film as executive producer at the behest of James H. Nicholson of AIP "to make sure Larry brought the film in on schedule and with some amount of quality." Dexter says that "the film went along without a hitch and Larry delivered a nice film" but that after it was put together to a rough cut Dexter and AIP "thought it was too slow and talky." He then took a small crew and returned to Dallas with s…

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