Billy Jack (1971)


Ex-Green Beret hapkido expert saves wild horses from being slaughtered for dog food and helps protect a desert "freedom school" for runaway.

Billy Jack (1971)

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Released Year: 1971
Runtime: 114 minutes
Genre: Action, Drama
Directors: Tom Laughlin

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Ex-Green Beret hapkido expert saves wild horses from being slaughtered for dog food and helps protect a desert "freedom school" for runaway.

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Reviews


70
The New Yorker - Pauline Kael
There's a sweet, naive feeling to the movie even when it's violent and melodramatic and atrocious, and when it's good it's good in an unorthodox, improvisatory style.
63
Chicago Sun-Times - Roger Ebert
There are a lot of things in Billy Jack that are seriously conceived and very well-handled. Some of the scenes at the school, for example, with real kids experimenting with psychodrama, are interesting. Some of the action scenes are first-rate. But the movie has as many causes in it as a year's run of the New Republic.
50
Variety - Unnamed
Screenplay attempts to encompass too many story facets. Result is that the action frequently drags.
50
The Dissolve - Nathan Rabin
Billy Jack is a film of violent contradictions. It is a fortysomething über-square’s tribute to the promise and potential of the hippies, as well as an intensely violent homage to non-violence.
50
The New York Times - Unnamed
The whole picture nicely conveys a Southwestern atmosphere. But much too often, at the cost of plain credibility, it stacks its cards, characters and even credo like any rootin', tootin' Western.

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