The Return of Billy Jack
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Billy Jack is a 1971 American action drama film starring Tom Laughlin as a Navajo Vietnam veteran and martial arts master who defends a hippie school. The film was a box office hit and a controversial cultural phenomenon, but received mixed reviews from critics.
Aug 2, 1971 · Billy Jack: Directed by Tom Laughlin. With Tom Laughlin, Delores Taylor, Clark Howat, Victor Izay. Ex-Green Beret hapkido expert saves wild horses from being slaughtered for dog food and helps protect a desert "freedom school" for runaway.
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- Tom Laughlin
- 1971-08-02
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The Billy Jack character was actually introduced in the 1967 film The Born Losers. Tom Laughlin already had the basic outline of the script for Billy Jack the movie, but lacked funding because studios simply weren’t interested in a film about peace and love and the plight of the American Indian. What did interest Hollywood investors, though, were v...
If some of the “actors” in the film seem a bit wooden, that’s probably because they weren’t professional performers but rather friends of the Laughlin family. The young blonde girl, Carol, who sang the uplifting “My Brother’s Dead” song, was played by Tom and Delores’ daughter Teresa. Kit, the headband girl who got “floured” in the ice cream shop w...
Speaking of the famous confrontation in the ice cream shop that drove Billy berserk, viewers who wondered why a soda fountain would have a barrel of flour handy might be interested to find out that this scene was based on a real-life incident Taylor witnessed while growing up in a small South Dakota reservation town. She was one of a handful of Cau...
One of many iconic scenes in Billy Jack is the one where Billy forces Bernard Posner to drive his brand-new $6000 Corvette Stingray into the lake. David Roya, who played Bernard, was behind the wheel in that scene and gunned the engine when director Laughlin called “Action!” After he was retrieved from the water, Roya was confronted by actor Bert F...
Tom Laughlin was a long-time student of the martial art hapkido, and he performed many of his own fighting moves in the movie. But in one particular scene he was forced to use a stunt double—his teacher, Master Bong Soo Han. The scene in question was where Billy Jack smacked Sheriff Posner upside the head with his foot; Laughlin was able to perform...
The actress who played the small but memorable role of Miss False Eyelashes in Billy Jack went on to star in the MST3K favorite Space Mutiny. In fact, in real life she’s married to Reb Brown, who played Dave Ryder aka Blast Hardcheese, Punch Rockgroin, Rip Steakface, et al.
May 1, 2021 · Billy Jack 1971 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066832/ Released exactly 50 years ago on May 1, 1971 Tom Laughlin's masterpiece would forever change the way we see action movies & action heroes....
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Feb 23, 2010 · Billy Jack is a former Green Beret who defends a school for runaways in the desert from bigots and racists. The film, starring Tom Laughlin, Delores Taylor and Jean Roberts, was a box office hit and a cultural phenomenon in 1971.
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Tom Laughlin was an American actor, director, screenwriter, author, educator, and activist. He was best known for his series of Billy Jack films, which he wrote, directed, and starred in, and which reflected his views on social issues and Native American rights.
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A part-Indian Vietnam veteran (Tom Laughlin) kicks around bigots who pick on his girlfriend's (Delores Taylor) so-called freedom school. Rent Billy Jack on Fandango at Home, Prime Video, Apple TV...
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