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He was great in the 1980 CBS TV movie ...Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones.
Broadcast on april 15, 1980....less than 18 after it happened.
Suprised he was born in 1948, I thought he was older, he looked about 40 back then.
The real Jim Jones was quite a bit older, born in 1931, though Powers Boothe had a very similar look.
The movies Wyatt Earp and Tombstone were released maybe 6 months apart from each other. Both are great IMO but the people seem to give an edge to Tombstone as the better movie of the two. Robert Mitchum narrated just before the start of the movie Tombstone and noted that "The Cowboys", headed by "Curly Bill" Brocius, Johnny Ringo, and Ike Clanton were the leaders of the gang. They were noted in Western history as most likely one of the first gangs that were involved as an organized crime syndicate. Actually to be more specific, they were known as the "Cochise County" Cowboys. And their numbers were substantial.
And you couldn't pick a better "bad guy" than what Powers Boothe gave as playing "Curly Bill."
He was not a favorite of mine by any means but I sure admired his performance in that movie about the mass suicide in Guyana. He did a remarkable job portraying Jim Jones. I hope he won an Emmy for that.
And you couldn't pick a better "bad guy" than what Powers Boothe gave as playing "Curly Bill."
I've seen "Curly Bill" Brocious described as "a mad buttocks mutilator" for having shot more than one person across the butt. Was any of that mentioned in "Tombstone"?
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