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The Trial of Billy Jack is a american film of genre Drama directed by Tom Laughlin released in USA on 13 november 1974 with Tom Laughlin
The Trial of Billy Jack (1974)
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Add to a movie listThe Trial of Billy Jack is a 1974 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. Although commercially successful, it was panned by critics. The film was included as one of the choices in the book The Fifty Worst Films of All Time. Directed by Laughlin, it has a running time of nearly three hours.
Synopsis
Billy Jack (Tom Laughlin) goes to court facing an involuntary manslaughter charge stemming from events in the earlier film. He is found guilty and sentenced to a prison term. Meanwhile, the kids at the Freedom School—an experimental school for runaways and troubled youth on a Native American reservation in Arizona—vow to rebuild the school. They raise funds and acquire a new building, eventually starting their own newspaper and television station. Inspired by Nader's Raiders, they begin using the newspaper and TV station to conduct investigative reporting, angering several politicians and townspeople in the process with their exposés.Actors
Tom Laughlin
(Billy Jack)
George Aguilar
Delores Taylor
(Jean Roberts)
Sacheen Littlefeather
(Patsy Littlejohn)
Victor Izay
(Doc)
Tom Laughlin
(1960)
(1967)
(1971)
(1974)
(1975)
(1977)
(1986)Comments
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