Billy Bob's Filmography

HUNTER'S BLOOD (1987)

Movie Quote
BILLY BOB:  (Unintelligible due to lousy sound transfer, which they rerecorded, looping in another actor's voice.  How fitting for a film whose tagline is: Out there, no one hears you scream.)

Plot
A weekend hunt in the Deep South goes horribly awry when four city slickers run afoul of some psychotic hillbillies.

What Billy Bob Gets To Do
Billy Bob plays a backwoods thug who gets tossed out the back of a pick-up truck. You can see him just fine in full Li'l Abner mode, but you can't understand a word he says, thanks to lousy sound looping (see SOUTH OF RENO and FOR THE BOYS for the very opposite problem!). 

Backstory
It's Billy Bob's first silver screen performance! This non-budget riff on DELIVERANCE nabbed our hero his SAG card, but only after stars Ken Swofford, Joey Travolta, and Sam Bottoms leaned on the filmmakers keep their promise that Billy Bob would have some lines.  He suffered for his art during the shoot, which put him in the mud during a rainstorm, causing him to catch pneumonia.  The psycho hillbillies include Nightstalker lookalike Billy Drago (who, that same year, played mobster Frank Nitti as a white-clad angel of death in THE UNTOUCHABLES) and Billy Bob repeat offender Mickey Jones (SLING BLADE, THE LAST REAL COWBOYS). Throw in a fetching, pre-NYPD BLUE Kim Delaney and a solid, macho heroic turn by Clu Gullagher, and you've got enough cheese to flavor your popcorn. 

A recent exchange on Facebook reveals that Jerold Lukas Franks (past President of the Casting Society of America) and Myrl Sheibman presented Billy Bob with his SAG card on the set of HUNTER'S BLOOD. Jerry recalls the unknown future-Oscar-winner as "a good dude" who was memorable for his "graciousness as an actor." Millions of fans and all of Planet Billy Bob say "thank ye, Jerry and Myrl" in return!

Relevant Links
IMDb Link
Brains on Film Review: BBT visible in a blurry video capture
TV Guide review
Cast member Gene Glazer's photo site
AMC synopsis
Jim Keat'in's Killer Hillbilly site--downright fascinating

Merchandise
We'd like to think that this inspired those scary Billy Bob teeth.

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