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...title. Enter gave him a start at cultivating an audience larger than the matinee trade. But he remains now, since his death, the proud province of a militant army of action lovers who respond to him the way previous generations watched Johnny Weissmuller swing through the jungle or Buster Crabbe chase the Emperor Ming all over Mongo...
...such a gush of purple journalism hell-bent on convincing us that the heirs of Mack Sennett, Buster Keaton or Charlie Chaplin are a few MTM situation comedies...
...only member of this group of friends who does not take advantage of Billie's availability is Buster (Jan-Michael Vincent), steady and sensitive beyond his years. He is the most popular and respected boy at the local high school. When a friendly storekeeper asks Buster why he does not go along on the Billie expeditions, he replies that he is "the Lone Ranger" and he likes moments of intimacy to be private...
Since the title of this movie is Buster and Billie, it is a pretty sure bet that Billie is going to meet the most popular boy in school. Indeed, Buster soon asks her out and has his way with her-privately, to be sure-in the front seat of the family pickup. Romance and Billie blossom, more or less in that order. The pair pass a great deal of time making love, going skinny-dipping and observing the photogenic glories of nature, while Buster's buddies become increasingly irked. The love affair violates the tenets of what the film...
...Buster and Billie contains some good acting-by Vincent and Goodfellow and, most especially, by a boy named Robert Englund, who plays Buster's best friend-and some well-observed Southern ambience. But mostly the film makers work efficiently against what small quality they manage to generate...