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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.
The Born Losers is a 1967 American outlaw biker film. [3] The film introduced Tom Laughlin as the half-Indigenous American Green Beret Vietnam veteran Billy Jack.Since 1954, Laughlin had been trying to produce his Billy Jack script about discrimination toward Indigenous Americans.
The Trial of Billy Jack is a 1974 American Western action film starring Delores Taylor and Tom Laughlin. It is the sequel to the 1971 film Billy Jack and the third film overall in the series. [2] Directed by Laughlin, the film has a running time of nearly three hours. Although commercially successful, it was panned by critics.
Laughlin was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the son of Margaret and Thomas Laughlin. [1] He attended Washington High School, [4] [5] where he was involved in an athletics controversy that made headlines throughout the city, caused by Laughlin being forced to attend another school for a brief period, making him ineligible to play football at his former school on his return.
Billy Jack (Tom Laughlin) is appointed a United States Senator to fill out the remaining term of another senator.It is hoped that he will quietly vote the party line, but his term in the Senate runs into trouble when he proposes a bill to fund a national youth camp which happens to be on the property where a nuclear power plant is also being proposed.
The Return of Billy Jack is an unfinished theatrical film starring Tom Laughlin (who also directed), reprising his role as Billy Jack, and co-starring Rodney Harvey and Delores Taylor. The film was in production from December 1985 to early 1986 in New York City (with some scenes filmed in Central Park), with additional scenes filmed in Toronto ...
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This Warner release, titled as "One Tin Soldier (The Legend of Billy Jack)", reached number 26 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the fall of 1971. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The full Coven band then re-recorded the song for their self-titled MGM album, which displayed the band members' whited-out faces on the cover, contrived by the film's producer Tom Laughlin .