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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.
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.
Highest-grossing films of 1971 Rank Title Distributor Domestic gross 1 Billy Jack: Warner Bros. $98,000,000 2 Fiddler on the Roof: United Artists: $78,722,370 3 Diamonds Are Forever: United Artists $43,800,000 4 The French Connection: 20th Century Fox: $41,158,757 5 Summer of '42: Warner Bros. $32,063,634 6 Dirty Harry: Warner Bros. $28,153,434 ...
Together the couple developed the character of "Billy Jack", who first appeared in the 1967 film The Born Losers. They followed that with Billy Jack in 1971, then The Trial of Billy Jack in 1974, and Billy Jack Goes to Washington in 1976. Taylor and Laughlin played the starring roles in the latter three films.
Cisse Cameron (born January 5, 1954) is an American television and film actress. [1] Cameron made her film debut in Billy Jack (1971), and her career culminated with the lead role of Dr. Lea Jansen in the 1988 science fiction film Space Mutiny. In 1974, she played the title role in a summer stock tour of Sugar, starring Alan Sues.
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.
The shipwreck was explored against the backdrop of a forbidden romance between Jack (DiCaprio) and Rose (Winslet), whose different social classes created obstacles for their future as a couple.
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.