Ode to Billy Joe (trailer, 1976)

The murder to tune another sleepy dusty deal today. What the song didn't tell you, the movie will show you. Bobby Gentry's Ode to Billy Joe is now a movie. Billy Joe McAllister jumped over Tally at Cheapree.

I'm a Hadsick Bridge. Oh, wow. Afternoon, Mr. Harvey. Hi. I'm Billy Joe McAllister. Good morning, Mr. Miss Hally. I'm doing your Macalester. You may remember me. There's something wrong with that boy. By now your papa surely knows who I am.

Oh, he knows who you are. He just don't know what you are. No, I screamed. No. And then I heard my own boy saying, Yes, yes, yes. And no, no, no, no. No. You were up late, past night.

It was written. The Good Book? Oh yes, Mommy, it was a good book. Girls growing up, Glenn. The features and very strange ideas, too. Here we are. Second half of the 20th century. The 20th century.

Mrs. Sippy, I'd get you a word of it. How old are you, girl? 32. D. Cut. I love you. I love you, Bill and Joe. And what I say, no matter what I do, please remember I love you.

Oh, seeing Village, old lady. That Billy Joe Macales? People can look in for you. Something happened. There was something real bad, Bobbie. Don't seem like no good ever come to nobody on this bridge. Now, years after the whispers and the rumors, the Tallahatchie River gives up its secrets.

And me I spent a lot of time picking flowers up on Choctaw Ridge and drop them into the muddy water of the talent you breathe. But the song didn't tell you, the movie will show you.