The Buddy Holly Story
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Movie Reviews of The Buddy Holly Story
Movie Review: the buddy holly story
Summary: 5 Stars
great movie. saw most of it on tv and wanted to get it. got me more interested in the great buddy hollyMovie Review: Gary Busey Holly
Summary: 5 Stars
Gary Busey did an excellent job even doing his own singing. He out did himself.Movie Review: Gary Busey as Buddy Holly
Summary: 4 Stars
Gary Busey stars in this movie as Buddy Holly, and this is a ficitious story of his own life story, Buddy Holly didn't get to very life very long, and I bad a lot of you already know that Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and JP "The Big Bopper" Richardson died in a plane crash, shortly after take off in Clear Lake Iowa, in the early morning hours of Feburary 3, 1959. But the bad thing is, that we will never know just what these 3 singers would have done, had they not boarded that ill-fated plane, they could have all still been alive today, but that was not the case. The movie begins in a roller rink, where Buddy Holly (Gary Busey) ande bandmates Jesse (Don Stroud) and Ray Bob (Charles Martin Smith) are about to perfrom the new week's Holly hay ride show, on a local radio station, where a DJ named Riley Randolph (Bill Jordan) does his radio show, and allows Buddy Holly some airtime, and maybe this is one of the inaccrious that I have heard of, the show started of fine, where during a breif commerical break, where Riley is reading a few commericals, Buddy Holly decides to play some Bop, even through he and his bandmates are on strict orders not to so. And they tell him at first, but still does with the playing of Rock Around the Ollie Villie, which then is followed by That will be the day. Which causes a sponser of the show, tro call Riley up in the radio station, with orders to find out what is going on, and get it off the air, and Riley turns on the recoreder, and records the end of the 2nd song, and goes into the 3rd. The next morning we see Buddy Holly in chruch and then the preist makes a speech about music, and what happened in town the night before at the roller rink, and warns parents to keep thier children away from it, and those who performs it. This leads to Buddy Holly getting discovered, by first a producer that jsut happened to be in town that night, and wants to see them in stuido in Nasvillie, where we seem they recording That will be the day, with a country badn behind them, which really gets them nowhere.Movie Review: It's not history, but it is the authentic feel of the music
Summary: 4 Stars
The Buddy Holly Story starring Gary Busey should not be taken as a historical document. Nor do I believe it ever set out to be. What has been created is a film which gives the feel and atmosphere of Buddy Holly, his music and the USA of the day. To have been completely factual would have most probably killed the film with legal challenges and suppression. The Crickets leaving Buddy to side with Norman Petty in the split leading to the final tour and the bitter disappointment this must have caused Buddy, the actual split itself with Petty and the resultant financial complications, these happenings are really not the sort of thing to air in a movie to celebrate the life and music of one of the founders of Rock. Instead Gary Busey has strapped on a Fender and in effect becomes Buddy Holly. The rhythm and beat, the frantic excitement, the sheer enjoyment of the music, it is all there. We actually get to experience a timeslice of a period some of us recall fondly and others would like to share. A wonderful reminder of good music for us oldies or a enjoyable introduction to a legend for others, a Rock'n'Roll legend quoted by The Beatles and a number of other major musical identities as a major influence in their music.
One of the lesser known items about this film and the making thereof is that Gary Busey actually formed a band and toured up and down the west coast of the USA before the making of it to provide himself with the feel and practice of performing Buddy Holly songs before an audience. He actually played and sang the songs in the film rather than lip-sync Buddy's records to provide some authentic feel to the whole thing - good on yer Gary !
Movie Review: Gary Busey Makes this Movie Rock!
Summary: 4 Stars
My parents took my brother, sister, and I to a drive-in theatre back in 1979 to see THE VILLIAN -Kirk Douglas, Ann Margaret, and "Aunuld" Schwarzenegger-(Does anyone remember that movie??!!). Fortunately for us, the evening wasn't a total loss because on the second billing was THE BUDDY HOLLY STORY. This film proved to be the better movie of course. Being a Beatles fan, and knowing Buddy Holly was one of their influences, this movie about one of the innovators of rock 'n' roll, is excellent. Gary Busey in the title roll pulls it off with such depth and passion that he actually did his own singing and guitar playing. Great supporting performances by Charles Martin Smith (who I only knew as "Toad" in American Graffitti, or as the guy who almost buys Greg Brady's "lemmon" of a car in the BRADY BUNCH) and Don Stroud (always plays bad guys on tv guest appearances etc..) who play their own bass and drums respectively. I found out later, that the movie takes some liberties with the actual events of Buddy Holly's short but great career, but it is an effective and entertaining biopic nonetheless. Also, Holly's songs are great. Other noteworthy performances from Conrad Janis (Mindy's Dad in MORK AND MINDY) as the record company owner Ross Turner, and Maria Richwine as Maria Elena Holly. Note: Look for Matthew 'Stymie' Beard (of OUR GANG/LITTLE RASCALS fame) as Luthor, the stage hand at the Apollo Theatre!!