Tom Laughlin
Billy Jack
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Language. English. Budget. $800,000. Box office. $32.5 million (rentals) [1] Billy Jack is a 1971 American action drama independent film, the second of four films centering on a character of the same name which began with the movie The Born Losers (1967), played by Tom Laughlin, who directed and co-wrote the script.
Aug 2, 1971 · Billy Jack is a half-Indian ex-Green Beret who fights for peace and justice in the desert. IMDb provides cast and crew information, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, and more for this movie.
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- Action, Drama
- Tom Laughlin
- 1971-08-02
May 1, 2021 · Billy Jack 1971 - BEST SCENE. 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...
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- In The Beginning… 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.
- Friends and Family Plan. 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.
- Let’s Make Everyone White. 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.
- A Dislocated Elbow or Drive Your Car into the Lake? 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.
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.
- Mike Dmytryk, Joseph E. Rickards
- Tom Laughlin
Apr 21, 2018 · 2.59K subscribers. Subscribed. 123. 19K views 6 years ago. This is the theatrical trailer for the 1971 action film Billy Jack. I removed the watermark for you, guys! No copyright infringement...
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Billy Jack is a half-Indian ex-Green Beret who protects a desert freedom school and wild horses from local bigots. He faces violence and injustice, and fights back with his martial arts skills.
