Haven't seen this in decades. Can someone provide spoilers for me?

They raped Billie and when she hit one of them, he choked her to death. Later, Buster killed two of them and injured the others.

I remember Buster attacks Billie's killers at the pool hall & beats one with a poolstick, but did he beat another with a ball? Then it ends with an announcement that he'd escaped from jail(I think) and had dug up someone's flower garden & was taking the flowers to Billie's grave. I haven't seen this movie in almost 20 years--it used to come on late Saturday night on Nashville's ABC channel 2.

Hi, I have this movie on video and just watched it recently. The reason it was a "hard" R is because of the full frontal nudity of Jan Michael Vincent. It wasn't a close-up or pornographic. It was when they were going skinny dipping. They show a little bit of Joan Goodfellow. But, at the time, and yes, I was alive in 1974, it was very risky for an actor to show his privates. Even then, actresses may have brifly showed their chests and perhaps rears, but never males, only male behinds and that was rare.

They did force Billie to have sex and she kept fighting back. In fact, the guy gets mad at her for hitting him and chokes her, which is how she dies.

He does kills two of his friends. He finds them in the pool hall and they act suspicious. One of them he blasts across the face with a pool cue. He sees the other one with scratches on his face and beats him, I think with a pool ball, but don't quote me on that. The others attack him. But he beats them too. Only the two die however.

Buster is in jail and gets out on bond. In fact, the police officer in the jail is sympathetic to him. One police officer asks if he let Buster out to go to her funeral. He says no because bail hadn't been set yet. Only Buster's parents and the preacher were there, not even her own parents went to Billie's funeral. The policeman says he doesn't know what he himself would do if a bunch of guys raped and killed his girl. Then two phone calls come into the sheriff's office - two people complaining that their flower beds were all torn up. Buster has filled the back of his pickup truck with flowers to bring to Billie's grave. It's quite touching.

What really struck me about this movie was the actions of Buster's friend Whitey. Whitey was homelier than a hedge fence and kind of ignorant. But Buster has obviously taken him under his wing for many years. When Whitey gets shot down by a girl, Buster builds him back up again. Whitey spends the night at Buster's house and is really taken in by Buster's whole family. Buster takes him to the sea. Although not rich, Buster always seems to have a little money, he is the best looking kid in school and is very popular. But he is also very kind and you see that in his relationship with Whitey. Whitey, however, turns on him when it comes down to getting sex. That, to me, was almost the worst thing. Let this be a lesson to all you young girls out there - guys will say or do just about anything to get sex - even betray a lifelong buddy! There seems to be no honor in teenage boys! :-) Except for guys like Buster! So, look out for a Buster and forget all the rest! But, even Buster's intentions toward Billie were less than honorable in the beginning.