| Overview: | Young Buddy is the gentle, sensitive type. And his burly, manly-man father (Cameron Mitchell) and his buddies try to convert him over to the macho side by taking him hunting and boozing. Somewhere along the way, Buddy meets up with a world-weary cocktail waitress, played by Maureen McCormick (Marcia from "The Brady Bunch"), and manly feelings begin to stir within him. Unfortunately, Dad's buddies have other plans for her; they take her by force and rape her. This trip has certainly changed Buddy but not necessarily for the better.
"Texas Lightning" began as a gritty script called "The Boys", written by director Gary Graver. But the demands of the business forced a re-shoot and re-edit to make it more of a comedy.
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