Along with an uncredited Nick Nolte (whom I didn’t spot), DIRTY LITTLE BILLY (1972) cameos included Gary Busey and Dick Van Patten, the dad from Eight is Enough, as a client of Billy’s prostitute buddy! (The latter got the biggest laugh of the screening.) Mucky, muddy, dusty, sweaty, this film is mired in moral and physical grime, plus that really red, red fake blood that the special effects people hadn’t yet perfected in the 1970s.
