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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. Filming began in Prescott, Arizona, in the fall of 1969, but the movie was not completed until 1971.
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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- Action, Drama
- Tom Laughlin
- 1971-08-02
May 1, 2021 · Billy Jack 1971https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066832/Released exactly 50 years ago on May 1, 1971 Tom Laughlin's masterpiece would forever change the way we s...
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Feb 23, 2010 · Billy Jack (1971) -- (Movie Clip) I Am The Law Just as Kenneth Tobey (as deputy sheriff Mike) is about to execute the instructions of crooked rancher Posner (Bert Freed) to slaughter captured wild horses, title character Tom Laughlin, who also wrote and directed under assumed names, appears, his intervention finished with continuing narration by Delores Taylor (also Mrs. Laughlin) as Jean ...
- Mike Dmytryk, Joseph E. Rickards
- Tom Laughlin
- 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.
Find out who starred in and worked on the 1971 film Billy Jack, directed by Tom Laughlin and Delores Taylor. See the full list of actors, writers, producers, stunt performers and more on IMDb.
"Billy Jack" is a period piece, but doesn't show the era as it really was. Rated 1/5 Stars • Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review Audience Member Kenneth Tobey is The Number One!
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- Drama
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