Yumurcak Küçük Kovboy

Yumurcak Küçük Kovboy

Movie · 1973 · 7 people

Italian filmmaker Guido Zurli directed Küçük Kovboy (Yumurcak Küçük Kovboy, also known as The Little Cowboy) for Erler Film, a Western comedy from 1973 and a Turkish-Italian co-production. The child actor İlker İnanoğlu plays the boy Yumurcak, opposite the action star Cüneyt Arkın as the gunman Keskin. The colour film runs about 85 minutes and brings adventure and humour into a dusty Wild West setting.

In a remote Wild West town, Yumurcak is seized on his way home from school by an outlaw gang led by Demirbilek, played by Alan Steel. The kidnappers demand a ransom from his mother. Doubting that paying will bring her son back, she looks for someone who can handle a gun, but nobody wants to cross the gang. At last she finds Keskin, a gunman left wretched by guilt over a child's death years earlier. He cannot resist her plea and takes the job. Later it emerges that someone close to her secretly works for the gang, and the boy and the gunman drift into an unlikely partnership. Pascale Petit, Ida Galli and Erol Taş also appear in the cast.

The screenplay was written jointly by Arpad De Riso, Fuat Özlüer and Erdoğan Tünaş, with Çetin Gürtop as cinematographer. Türker İnanoğlu is among the producers.

DirectorGuido Zurli
Production companyErler Film

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Family Viewer Asks whether the whole household can watch it; cares about humour and heart.

With a child at its centre, it looks at first like a film made for kids. But the plot is a kidnapping and a ransom, and the gunman carries a child's death in his past. It is a Western, so expect gunplay. I would keep a grown-up next to younger children. The blend of adventure and humour works nicely for a family evening, and at around 85 minutes it won't test anyone's patience.

Action & Thriller Fan Puts pace, tension and set pieces first; little patience for slow drama.

Cüneyt Arkın as the gunman, Alan Steel's gang on the other side: a solid match-up on paper. A gang nobody in town dares to cross, a ransom deal and a traitor working from the inside give it plenty to build tension with. But this is a Western comedy, and the humour keeps softening the pace. If you want a hard-edged showdown, you may come away a little let down. On the plus side, the 85 minutes go by fast.

Yeşilçam Nostalgic A viewer raised on the classics, looking for warm storytelling and strong acting.

The film has that peculiar flavour of a seventies co-production: an Italian director, a dusty Wild West set, and our own Cüneyt Arkın in the middle of it all. A gunman broken by guilt who finds his feet again through a child fits the moral line Yeşilçam always loved, and the partnership between Yumurcak and Keskin is the heart of the film. Still, squeezing the warmth of our cinema into a foreign mould does not always go smoothly. At times it feels like a film caught between two worlds.

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