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Ode To Billy Joe (1976) - It Was A Good Book

Early scenes with the Hartley family, in 1950’s Tallahatchie County, Mississippi, Glynnis O’Connor as Bobbie, with a book, her mother (Joan Hotchkis) and her father (Sandy McPeak), from director Max Baer’s box office hit based on Bobbie Gentry’s song, Ode To Billy Joe, 1976, also starring Robby Benson.

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Ode To Billy Joe (1976) - Your Dad's In Trouble
With her dad (Sandy McPeak) left stuck on the bridge after an encounter with out of state hoodlums, Bobbie (Glynnis O’Connor) fetches brother James (Terence Goodman) with Billy Joe (Robby Benson) and Tom (Eddie Talr) from the sawmill for help, early in Ode To Billy Joe, 1976.
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Ode To Billy Joe (1976) - He Sure Is Cute
The end of the credits and the mega-hit song from 1967, on which the story was based, re-recorded by composer Bobbie Gentry, and director Max Baer’s opening, on location in Mississippi, introducing leads Glynnis O’Connor as Bobbie and Robby Benson as Billy Joe, from Ode To Billy Joe, 1976.

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