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Billy Jack (1971)

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Movie Info

Actor/auteur Tom Laughlin created the character of Billy Jack in the motorcycle flick The Born Losers. Wandering Christlike through the Southwest, Native American Vietnam veteran Billy Jack -- soft-spoken, but well-versed in martial arts -- champions the cause of a progressive school run by Jean Roberts (Delores Taylor, Laughlin's real-life wife). The bigoted white townsfolk don't cotton to Jean's minority-group students, so they do everything they can to humiliate and physically abuse the kids.

PG, 2 hr.

Drama, Action & Adventure, Classics, Cult Movies

Directed By: Tom Laughlin , Clark Howat

Written By: Tom Laughlin

In Theaters: Jan 1, 1971 Wide

On DVD: Oct 31, 2000

Cast

Tom Laughlin
Billy Jack
Delores Taylor
Jean Roberts
Clark Howat
Sheriff Cole
Bert Freed
Stuart Posner
Julie Webb
Barbara
Kenneth Tobey
Deputy
Lynn Baker
Sarah
Paul Bruce
Councilman
The Committee
Susan Foster
Cindy
Howard Hesseman
Victor Izay
Doctor
Teresa Kelly
Carol
Katy Moffatt
Maria
Stan Rice
Martin
David Roya
Bernard
Debbie Schock
Kit
Richard Stahl
Council Chairman
Susan Sosa
Sunshine
John McClure
Dinosaur
Gwen Smith
Angela

Critic Reviews for Billy Jack

All Critics (18) | Top Critics (4) | Fresh (11) | Rotten (5) | DVD (8)

[W]hen peaceful protest is met with guns and brutality, Billy kicks ass as a one-man-army of poetic justice.

October 19, 2009 Full Review Source: Seanax.com

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Sean Axmaker

Seanax.com

... when peaceful protest is met with guns and brutality, Billy kicks ass as a one-man-army of poetic justice.

September 2, 2009 Full Review Source: Seanax.com

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Sean Axmaker

Seanax.com

Lame, self indulgent when released in 1971, but even more so now.

June 7, 2007 Comment (1)

Steve Crum

Video-Reviewmaster.com

Billy Jack f*%k yea!

March 13, 2006 Comment

Cole Smithey

ColeSmithey.com

A little heavy-handed with the message, this film still holds onto the brutality of the revenge style established in Born Losers.

October 14, 2005 Full Review Source: 7M Pictures

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Kevin Carr

7M Pictures

You feel guilty liking this manipulative pulp, but it somehow grabs and holds onto you.

September 11, 2003 Comment

Bob Bloom

Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)

A film so fascinatingly liberal it almost seems to exist in a different universe.

October 11, 2002 Comment

Jon Niccum

Lawrence Journal-World

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No real point to it, but I would want my own Billy Jack as a bodygaurd

March 13, 2011

Brad Wright

Super Reviewer

This movie is good at giving you a picture of early seventies late sixties life, especially the youth and peace movements going on at the time. The story is good, too, but the movie is too long and sort of lingers at times. There are some really great scenes, though, especially the ones with Billy Jack saving the day. Overall, an okay movie.

December 21, 2010

AJ Verser

Super Reviewer

Billy Jack Quotes

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1. Sheriff Cole: You'd kill her just like that?
2. Billy Jack: No. You'd kill her. Then I'd kill you. Just. Like. That.
– Submitted by Geoff B (2 months ago)