Billy Jack

Billy Jack is a half-Native American former Green Beret and hapkido expert who drifts through Arizona. After meeting Barbara, a young runaway, he brings her to a freedom school run in a Native American reservation by the idealist Jean Roberts. The school and its students face constant harassment from townspeople and local youths, and tensions build as the community turns against the school and the people it shelters.

Tom Laughlin directs, produces and stars as Billy Jack, and wrote the screenplay with Delores Taylor, who plays Jean Roberts. Clark Howat appears as Sheriff Cole, with Victor Izay, Julie Webb and Debbie Schock among the credited cast of 42. The film is a 1971 American action drama from Warner Bros. Pictures, running 114 minutes.

On IMDb it holds a rating of 6.2 from around 7,100 votes, while on TMDB it sits at 6 from about 79 votes. A critics' rating of 5.4 from 17 reviews places it below the audience score on IMDb. The film took in about 4 million USD worldwide.