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...BILLY JOE, an extrapolation on Bobbie Gentry's 1967 back-country ballad about the young boy who jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge, is a nice surprise. Director Max Baer (Macon County Line) has a good, close feeling for the rural South, and the movie-shot on location in Mississippi-is careful about people, sharp in selecting and using details of landscape: hushed green fields, a sinuous, umbilical river, a house perched on the edge of woods as if waiting to be enfolded in the trees. Herman Raucher's screenplay concerns the real reason Billy Joe threw himself...
...Thomas Baer Chicago...
...Erma E. Baer...
...Braddock's luck faltered. During the Depression he worked on the docks and went on the dole, but he kept on fighting -and losing. After a surprise victory in 1934, he disposed of three strong contenders for the heavyweight crown and earned a shot at Champion Max Baer's title. Braddock skillfully outboxed Baer for 15 rounds, winning a unanimous decision and Damon Runyon's sobriquet "the Cinderella...
...movie, which is ragged but forceful, is said to be based on a true story. It sometimes seems much too pat in its converging ironies, but it is a credit to Baer and the deft action directing of Richard Compton that County Line at least assumes, in its strongest passages, the rueful sting of fact...