Movie: "Billy Jack"
| Release Date: | May 1971 |
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| Genres: | Action / Drama |
| Awards | Nominated for Golden Globe. |
| Runtime: | 114 min. |
| Cast: | Tom Laughlin (Billy Jack), Delores Taylor (Jean Roberts) Clark Howat (Sheriff Cole) Victor Izay (Doctor) Julie Webb (Barbara) Debbie Schock (Kit) Teresa Kelly (Carol) Lynn Baker (Sarah) Stan Rice (Martin) David Roya (Bernard Posner) John McClure (Dinosaur) Susan Foster (Cindy) Susan Sosa (Sunshine) Katy Moffatt (Maria) Gwen Smith (Angela) Richard Stahl (Council chairman) Alan Myerson (O.K. Corrales (as Allan Meyerson)) Ed Greenberg (Drama teacher) Howard Hesseman (Howard Johnson (drama teacher) (as...) Dan Barrows (Student) Herb Kohl (Other Ways Demolition Squad co-director) Phillip Crowder (Other Ways Demolition Squad student) David Conley (Other Ways Demolition Squad student) Jenny Bellah (Other Ways Demolition Squad student) Becky Voight (Other Ways Demolition Squad student) Mark Baum (Other Ways Demolition Squad student) Johnny Otis (Other Ways Demolition Squad student) Nora Bendich (Other Ways Demolition Squad student) Lenny Pickett (Other Ways Demolition Squad student) Robert Wilson (Other Ways Demolition Squad student) Meg Partridge (Other Ways Demolition Squad student) James French (Other Ways Demolition Squad student) Laurie Mayeno (Other Ways Demolition Squad student) Alva Thompson (Other Ways Demolition Squad student) Melissa Stocking (Other Ways Demolition Squad student) Sira Aarons (Other Ways Demolition Squad student) Phillip Salvarry (Other Ways Demolition Squad student) Bert Freed (Mr. Stuart Posner) Kenneth Tobey (Deputy Mike (as Ken Tobey)) Paul Bruce (Councilman) Cisse Cameron (Miss False Eyelashes (as Cissie...) Jessica Myerson ((as Jessica Meyerson)) |
Storyline: Billy Jack is a half-Indian/half-white ex-Green Beret who is being drawn more and more toward his Indian side. He hates violence, but can't get away from it in the white man's world. Pitting the good guys, the students of the peace-loving free-arts school in the desert vs. the conservative bad guys in the near-by town, the movie plays definitive late-60s themes/messages: anti-establishment, make love not war, the senseless slaughter of God's creatures, the rape of society (figuratively and literally), two-sided justice, racial segregation and prejudices, and basic socialist ideals.
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