I'd bet Steven Seagal watched this movie growing up. Amazing similarities how the bad guys always wait for Billy Jack to get off his one liners before he kicks all their asses without getting a finger laid on him. Seagal (early movies) and Billy Jack looked similar too, sort of slim and healthy but not really competitive fighting sort of shape. Just a couple of guys living out there tough guy hero fantasies in movies beating up extras who don't fight back.
So controversial back then...Billy Jack was way ahead of his time...Today,Tom Laughlin would be hailed as a hero and be a multi-millionaire from his movies,books,speeches etc...He was just 50 years too early...Some of the best movies ever made...They blackballed him for what he showed
so the story that I heard from an AD on the movie was that Tom accidently hit Bert Freed in the face and after filming wrapped Freed asked Tom to meet him behind one of the buildings and proceeded to kick Tom's ass. I guess Freed had boxed in the service and got really ticked off at Tom. Freed thought he would be fired but they were too far into the filming for that.
No one could call a bluff like Billy Jack. I want to be this badass . . . but since I'm not on an Indian reservation against rednecks, I'll probably end up dead or in jail.
That's an absolutely Great Scene in the Film. OF Billy Jack demonstrating too Posner that He was completely honest and Serious about everything He was intent on Doing. Whether it was within the Law's or it had too be done on the Reservation in an independent place of The Federal Government's influence or Power. Man Did I Love & Really Respect that Film, & it's Meaning. Thank You So Much Again. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🎵🎶🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸⚖️⚖️🗞️📰
Billy Jack was my all-time hero when I was a kid I used to go to the matinee and watch the movie 2 and 3 times every weekend I was really eat up with this movie I really love the fight scenes and all but I really love the moral of the story
I saw this back in 71 at a drive-in movie. I wasn't a Vette enthusiast back then but I was disgusted by the Vette being driven into the lake. The Vette owners I met back then were just hard working guys, a lot of them blue collar, some just back from Nam. You didn't see too many fat old rich men driving them back then. Billy Jack was kind of a jerk movie and the producers must have been buttholes for filming that stunt.