Bobbie Gentry's hauntingly enigmatic 1967 hit single served as the inspiration of this story of unrequited teenage love. In 1953, Bobbie Lee Hartley is 15 years old and in love with 18-year-old Billy Joe McAllister. Unfortunately, Bobbie's father and mother forbid her to date until she's 16, and until then, Billy Joe and Bobbie Lee are supposed to be content with occasional meetings after church on Sunday. The teenage lovers sometimes steal away for meetings on the Tallahatchie Bridge, but while the other local boys are able to slake their frustrations with the prostitutes imported for the occasional town dances, a booze-addled Billy Joe succumbs to another sort of temptation, and his guilt first destroys his relationship with Bobbie Lee, and then leads to his self-destruction.
General: Ode.to.Billy.Joe.1976.VHS-Transfer.XviD.Industrialized
Format: AVI
Length: 700 MiB for 1h 46mn 14s 368ms
Video: MPEG-4 Visual at 805 Kbps
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