Taglines: What took place in that town in 1948 should have been a love story.
Buster and Billie movie storyline. In a small Georgia town in 1948, Buster Lane (Jan-Michael Vincent) is a handsome, popular high-school senior, who is engaged to be married to his pretty, popular high-school sweetheart Margie Hooks (Pamela Sue Martin). He is the ‘big man on campus’ and the leader of his group of friends.
Buster’s friends often visit a girl from an underprivileged background named Billie-Jo Truluck (Joan Goodfellow), who dourly gives them the sexual favors they want. Meanwhile, Buster becomes disenchanted with Margie’s refusal to have sex with him, and begins seeing Billie in secret.
At first he sees Billie just for sex but eventually finds himself falling in love with her. He becomes, in fact, so taken with Billie that he breaks off his engagement with Margie and starts appearing in public with Billie, who finds a new lease on life with Buster. They are happy for the first time in their lives. Happiness for them, though, is short-lived.
Buster’s friends are extremely jealous that they cannot have Billie for their own use anymore and corner her one day when they are drunk and find her out walking. When she refuses to submit to them, they rape and kill her in the heat of the moment. Buster eventually finds her dead, and is hysterical. He then goes to the pool hall where his friends are, with the guilt evident on the faces of the main perpetrators of the crime.
Buster and Billie (1974)
Directed by: Daniel Petrie
Starring: Jan-Michael Vincent, Pamela Sue Martin, Clifton James, Robert Englund, Joan Goodfellow, Jessie Lee Fulton, Dell C. Payne, Mark Pendergraft, David Paul Dean, Doris Pearce
Screenplay by: Ron Turbeville
Production Design by:
Cinematography by: Mario Tosi
Film Editing by: Michael Kahn
Makeup Department: Del Armstrong, Jim Gaultney Jr.
Music by: Al De Lory
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: Columbia Pictures
Release Date: August 21, 1974
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