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Director:
Tom Laughlin
Writers:
Tom Laughlin (writer)
Delores Taylor (writer)
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Release Date:
13 November 1974 (USA) more
Genre:
Action | Drama | Music | Thriller more
Tagline:
It takes up where Billy Jack left off
Plot:
After Billy Jack in sentenced to four years in prison for the "involuntary manslaughter" of the first film... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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Tom Laughlin ... Billy Jack
Delores Taylor ... Jean Roberts
Victor Izay ... Doc
Teresa Kelly ... Carol (as Teresa Laughlin)
Russell Lane ... Russell
Geo Anne Sosa ... Joanne
Lynn Baker ... Lynn
Riley Hill ... Posner

Sparky Watt ... Sheriff Cole
Gus Greymountain ... Blue Elk
Sacheen Littlefeather ... Patsy Littlejohn
Michael Bolland ... Danny
Jack Stanley ... Grandfather
Bong Soo Han ... Master Han
Rolling Thunder ... Thunder Mountain
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Additional Details

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Runtime:
170 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Metrocolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono | 4-Track Stereo
Certification:
Sweden:15 | USA:PG | South Africa:(Banned)
Filming Locations:
Bandelier National Monument - 15 Entrance Road, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA more
Company:
Taylor-Laughlin Productions more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Delores Taylor claims that the lyrics of "The Theme from 'The Trial of Billy Jack'" came to her in a dream. more
Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: There is a scene in which the Freedom School kids are watching a Freedom School TV interview with Posner on a television atop a tower of equipment. The interview footage had been grafted onto the larger image. In one shot, when the camera pans, the grafted interview footage moves completely off of the TV set and into another part of the shot, then back onto the (originally white-noised) TV screen. more
Quotes:
Jean Roberts: Y'know, I really feel sorry for your children.
Prosecuting attorney: You feel sorry for *my* children?
Jean Roberts: Yes, and for you too. You know me... and you know I don't lie. It must be terrible to make it seem that way just to earn your money.
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Movie Connections:
Featured in Dusk to Dawn Drive-In Trash-o-Rama Show Vol. 4 (1997) (V) more
Soundtrack:
The Theme from 'The Trial of Billy Jack' more

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10 out of 19 people found the following comment useful.
AS VOLATILE AS THE TIMES IT REPRESENTED, 9 June 2000
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Author: Kelly Perkins (tkperkins@webtv.net) from TYLER, TX

A lot of people just don't get the point of the BILLY JACK movies. They are not condoning violence, they are showing us other ways of getting our points of view across. Tom Laughlin was and is an expert in Jungian psychology and he weaves the elements of the Shadow and Persona in all of his films. This movie especially is a mini-dissertation in Jungian concepts. The title is ambiguous in that there is a court trial for Billy Jack because of the violence he is guilty of in the movie BILLY JACK (this is the sequal to that movie). But, the real trials are between Billy and his inner self. The constant struggles that Billy Jack undergoes mirrors everyone's own personal battles. In these days and times, we need a role model like Billy Jack.

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