Billy Jack [VHS]

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	Actor(s):	Tom Laughlin Delores Taylor Clark Howat Julie Webb David Roya
	Video by:	Warner Home Video
	Sales Rank:	175128

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Actor(s):
Tom Laughlin
Delores Taylor
Clark Howat
Julie Webb
David Roya

Director(s):
T. C. Frank

Recording label: Warner Home Video
EAN: 0085391519836
Binding: VHS Tape
Format: Color, NTSC,
Release Date: 1994-04-27
Universal product code (UPC): 085391519836
Number of discs: 1
Audience rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)

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This time-capsule film from 1971 is a perfect example of having one's cake and eating it, too. Written and directed by filmmaker Tom Laughlin--and starring him in the title role--Billy Jack concerns a half-white, half-Indian karate expert who protects a free school built on principles of pacifism by kicking hell out of pesky rednecks. The story actually embraces that tension between Billy Jack's way of doing things and that of the school's founder (Delores Taylor), but their tension doesn't so much lead to an examination of principles as it leads to an excuse for Laughlin to incorporate fight scenes between hippie politics. Crude and brutal, the film is pretty exploitative of a viewer's torn sympathies, and in that way Billy Jack actually anticipates much of the simple-minded, violent fare that followed in the movies of the '70s and '80s. --Tom Keogh

Running time: 114 minutes
Language: English (Unknown)