Billy Jack [P&S]

Overview

Wandering Christlike through the Southwest, Native American Vietnam veteran Billy Jack champions a progressive school run by Delores Taylor. The bigoted townsfolk don't cotton to Taylor's minority-group students, so they do everything they can to humiliate them. When one of Delores' charges is coated with flour, Billy Jack goes berserk.

Product Details

Release Date:	05/19/2009
UPC:	0883929033003
Original Release:	1971
Rating:	PG
Source:	Warner Home Video
Region Code:	1
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Mono]
Language:	English
Time:	1:54:00
Sales rank:	25,784

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Tom Laughlin	Billy Jack
Delores Taylor	Jean Roberts
Clark Howat	Sheriff Cole
Bert Freed	Mr. Stuart Posner
Julie Webb	Barbara
Kenneth Tobey	Deputy,Deputy Mike
Victor Izay	Doctor
Debbie Schock	Kit
Stan Rice	Martin
Teresa Kelly	Carol
Katy Moffatt	Maria
Susan Foster	Cindy
Paul Bruce	Councilman
Don Sturdy	Howard Johnson
Lynn Baker	Sarah
David Roya	Bernard
Susan Sosa	Sunshine
Gwen Smith	Angela
John McClure	Dinosaur
Cissie Colpitts	Miss Eyelashes
The Committee	Actor
Richard Stahl	Council Chairman
Mundell Lowe	Conductor,Composer

Technical Credits

Tom Laughlin	Director
Mary Rose Solti	Producer
T.C. Frank	Director

Editorial Reviews

A dated phenomenon of the late-'60s counterculture, Billy Jack is a crude 1971 yarn about a Native American Vietnam veteran who uses his martial arts skills to protect wild mustangs and a runaway teenager from backwards Arizona citizens. The townsfolk are racist, and don't like a progressive school in town catering to non-whites, so Billy Jack fights them and blows them away. Championing a violent approach to pro-Establishment attitudes, the movie was a runaway cult hit, along with its theme song, "One Tin Soldier." Virtually a one-man show, it was written and directed by its star, Tom Laughlin, who created the Billy Jack character in a 1966 motorcycle movie, The Born Losers. Billy Jack also stars Laughlin's wife, Delores Taylor. In 1974, Laughlin followed up with The Trial of Billy Jack, which together with the original had huge box-office receipts. Two more attempts at Billy Jack films, in 1977 and 1986, flopped.