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The Buddy Holly Story

Rating:PG
Genre:Drama
Release Date:January 1, 1978
Running time:113 minutes
Cast:Gary Busey, Charles Martin Smith, Don Stroud, Conrad Janis, William Jordan
Director:Steve Rash
Producer:Fred Bauer
Writer:John Goldrosen
Distributor:Columbia Pictures

Description: The story of one of rock 'n' roll's first legends, Buddy Holly. Holly's career is followed from his high school days in Lubbock, Texas and his rise above the disaproval of his music by the locals and his conservative family, through his meteoric success with his band the Crickets, to his untimely death in a plane crash when he was just twenty-two years old.

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