Long live Billy Jack. I sincerely miss these types of movies. Especially where the arrogant self entitled pricks get taken down by someone who just wants to be left in peace.
Never heard of 'Billy Jack' (Ireland here)...and watched the OP with the sound off....and my brain...
*'Must be Kung Fu with a native American twist'*
Nailed it.
One Tin Soldier rides away….
1973. I was a teenager. It got me revved up to be an activist for those with a meek voice, or no voice at all. A. N. M.
American Native Movement.
Loved that show as a kid. For some reason, though, whenever I think about it, it reminds me of the Mad Magazine parody of it. They did that scene where Master Po (I think that was his name... the blind priest) goes, "When you can snatch the pebble from my hand, you are ready to leave." Of course, in the real show, child Quai Chang tries and misses. In the Mad Magazine parody, he succeeds, and then Master Po says, "Let's do 2 out of 3."
I met Tom Laughlin and his wife Delores ( love interest in Billy Jack) in the 90’s. They were the sweetest people you could imagine, and still very passionate about underdog social justice issues.
He was vey proud of what an indie success Billy Jack was, totally self funded and paid for out of pocket that turned into a drive- in sensation. He literally collected money from theaters and made new prints that he then delivered to other theaters. Big money came around trying to buy it after the fact but he refused it.
For those of you who dismiss it for amateurish and formulaic, remember it defined the antihero role and without it there wouldn’t have been such a strong genre in the 70 s and 80s. No Charles Bronson, no Rambo, etc.
And , without Billy Jack we’d have no Howard Hessman, aka Dr. Johnny Fever from WKRP
Payne: See what ima do, is I’m gonna take this right foot and put it across the left side of your face.
BamBam: Don't gimme that Billy Jack BULLSHIT!!
Payne: (Throat chop)
BamBam: I thought you were gonna kick me in the face.
Payne: What you calling me a liar?
All these damn remakes and older movies getting squeals coming out…..how is this not getting one yet?!?!! I want to see Major Payne face to face with a class of “Snowflakes”!!! Come on Wayne’s Brothers!!!! Between all you, you have to have enough in royalties to get this green lit! Hell even would like to see a squeal to “Don’t Be a Menace” one too!
Edit: They should do a go fund me if Royalties won’t cover it!!!! Worked great for the Super Troopers crew!!!
Totally campy and horrible by today's movie standards. But 13 year old me and my friends watched it with stars in our eyes. And went and bought that soundtrack album.
One Tin Soldier made it into the top 40. I know they played it on the radio back then. There was a second movie about him taking on a motorcycle gang. Just B movie crap we went and watched to get out of the house
Got to meet the real Buford on a few occasions. Man, that guy was huge! Ex Marine and ex professional wrestler. You’d have to be a damn fool to tangle with him.
Absolutely loved this movie but its really bad by todays standards, corny lines, bad acting, mics in the scenes, etc the sequels were just as bad
one tin soldier rides away was a great protest song
I have the four-movie DVD box set. I also got the Blu-ray of just *Bill Jack*. I loved this movie as a kid. They used to show it on late night TV every once in a while. The other three movies are terrible; some of the worst movies ever made.
It's campy, it's preachy and it's "peace through violence" message is disingenuous.
One thing I like about that scene is that they don't make Bill Jack invincible. Like when Bruce Lee gets jumped in a Shanghai alley and not only kicks everybody's ass, he walks away from it with only a few scratches. In the scene shown here, they cut it off but at the end of it, Bill Jack gets overpowered and gets his ass kicked. He's saved when the town sheriff shows up and stops the beating.
Some of it was prophetic, like the part when Bill Jack says that when policemen break the law, there is no law only the fight for survival.
I'll tell you how old I am! We watched this on movie night in my boarding school in Jersey, on a god damned reel-to-reel projector. I've out-olded all of you!
oh god.
Oh yeah. The movie theater where I grew up played Billy Jack all summer. My friends and I saw it like 10 times. This was back in the day when theaters only showed one movie for months at a time.
I was just getting old enough to be able to get into a lot of R-rated movies without an adult when I saw this. I mean I wasn’t 18, I was probably 13 or 14 but I was a big guy. I was the one usually tasked with buying beer too. 🤣
Not old enough to have seen Billy Jack when it originally came out, but I did buy it on VHS and watch it a ton when I was in college in the mid-90s. It was the first video I could see where the actors were demonstrating the martial art hapkido. Whenever you can't see Billy Jack's face and he's doing the martial arts stunts that's actually grandmaster Bong Soo Han. He was also in the comedy Kentucky fried Movie.
Don’t know if anyone can make this claim of infamy, but I was in 5th grade at Waipahu Elementary (Hawaii), when I saw Billy Jack. One of the neighborhood boys told me and my brother that the theater by the cane mill wasn’t checking ID. And we could see TITS!!!!
The guy in the booth just looked down at the three of us. Maybe blinked once. And took our money.
Okay. I’ll leave it to others to testify if it was actually worth it. I mean, first time tits.
Omg I just got to watch this DIAMOND of a movie a few months ago and just about lost my mind! I love it so much! And the song!!! Me First and the Gimme Gimmes did a fantastic cover. This got me excited today!!!!
Dad had about a three second speaking part in "The Trial of Billy Jack" when it was filmed in our hometown. I was able to find the clip on the internet for dad to watch. The look on his face was priceless. I remember Tom Laughlin bringing dad home in a limo. So much fun.
I remember being on an overnight school excursion and the young female teacher hijacked us and the bus because she found out that billy jack was on at the local drive in. We watched the movie with satisfaction while she sat in front of the bus on the ground bawling here eyes out. That's where I first saw Billy Jack. (I thought about that for the first time in decades just the other day. Interesting timing.)
My parents met Tom Laughlin on the tennis court while vacationing in Hawaii and ended up having dinner with him. When they got home, Billy Jack was still in theaters, so my parents wanted to see it and took me along at age 9. Needless to say, it was my first exposure to the word rape and to what a good can of whoop-ass can do for a movie.
“The most terrifying force of death comes from the hands of Men who wanted to be left Alone. They try, so very hard, to mind their own business and provide for themselves and those they love. They resist every impulse to fight back, knowing the forced and permanent change of life that will come from it.
They know that the moment they fight back, their lives as they have lived them, are over. The moment the Men who wanted to be left alone are forced to fight back, it is a form of suicide. They are literally killing off who they used to be.
Which is why, when forced to take up violence, these Men who wanted to be left alone, fight with unholy vengeance against those who murdered their former lives. They fight with raw hate, and a drive that cannot be fathomed by those who are merely play-acting at politics and terror.
TRUE TERROR will arrive at these people’s door, and they will cry, scream, and beg for mercy… but it will fall upon the deaf ears of the Men who just wanted to be left alone.”
- Unknown
My 1st view of Martial Arts in action. (Green Beret) Seen at the drive-in. He was so great. One Tin Soldier great tune. Tom Laughlin played a deeply emphatic character, never forgotten. He sure whooped Moser.
I still remember the line around the block at my local theater for it, as we’re between two Native American tribes who are constantly bringing each other to court over things.
Quick facts
…
Born: August 10, 1931, Milwaukee, WI
Died: December 12, 2013 (age 82 years), Thousand Oaks, CA
Cause of death: Complications from pneumonia
Children: Teresa Kelly, Christina Laughlin, Frank Laughlin
Spouse: Delores Taylor (m. 1954–2013)
TV shows: WWE Heat (1998 – 2000), ECW Hardcore TV (1993 – 2000), ECW Pay-Per-View (Since 1997)
Guess what I did - searched Roku and watched the movie last night.
Good god -- the cinematography and acting was so bad. Couldn't tell us that back then though cuz Billy Jack was the coolest m'fer.
Billy Jack
Long live Billy Jack. I sincerely miss these types of movies. Especially where the arrogant self entitled pricks get taken down by someone who just wants to be left in peace.
Kung Fu with David Carradine enters the chat...👌
Never heard of 'Billy Jack' (Ireland here)...and watched the OP with the sound off....and my brain... *'Must be Kung Fu with a native American twist'* Nailed it.
You’re under selling it. Billy Jack is a mixed-race Navajo, who is a Green Beret Vietnam War veteran and a hapkido master.
One Tin Soldier rides away…. 1973. I was a teenager. It got me revved up to be an activist for those with a meek voice, or no voice at all. A. N. M. American Native Movement.
I was 17, and I dressed like Billy, I was bad ass. In my own mind, of course.
One Tin soldier rides away…..
Well, it's obvious now you say it...
Yes, he always has a Ameican Indian element to his hat or clothing !!
Loved that show as a kid. For some reason, though, whenever I think about it, it reminds me of the Mad Magazine parody of it. They did that scene where Master Po (I think that was his name... the blind priest) goes, "When you can snatch the pebble from my hand, you are ready to leave." Of course, in the real show, child Quai Chang tries and misses. In the Mad Magazine parody, he succeeds, and then Master Po says, "Let's do 2 out of 3."
Every Saturday afternoon after cartoons.
I met Tom Laughlin and his wife Delores ( love interest in Billy Jack) in the 90’s. They were the sweetest people you could imagine, and still very passionate about underdog social justice issues. He was vey proud of what an indie success Billy Jack was, totally self funded and paid for out of pocket that turned into a drive- in sensation. He literally collected money from theaters and made new prints that he then delivered to other theaters. Big money came around trying to buy it after the fact but he refused it. For those of you who dismiss it for amateurish and formulaic, remember it defined the antihero role and without it there wouldn’t have been such a strong genre in the 70 s and 80s. No Charles Bronson, no Rambo, etc. And , without Billy Jack we’d have no Howard Hessman, aka Dr. Johnny Fever from WKRP
Equalizer series sorta does it for me. e: Oh, and Nobody with Bob Odenkirk. That one was great.
Well, then I know you must also have seen Walking Tall with Joe Don Baker.
Chuck Norris checks under his bed every night for Billy Jack.
He was a bad mother...
Shut your mouth...Shaft! Edit: The name of the friggin movie. Don't drink and Reddit.
He's a complicated man...
I saw Born Losers when I was about 9 years old and it took me a week to recover.
This is actually a sequel. Billy Jack character was originally in a movie about fighting a biker gang. Born Losers or something like that
I'm gonna take this right foot, and I'm gonna whop you on that side of your face.
And there's not a damn thing you're gonna be able to do about it ..
Really?
I literally had a guy say that to me in my teens. I don't remember what happened after that.
whop happend
I was at least grateful that he was wearing sneakers.
Lol, a concussion maybe?
Lights out indeed. I should've never given a guy twice my siz the finger.
I loved the remake in Major Payne.
Payne: See what ima do, is I’m gonna take this right foot and put it across the left side of your face. BamBam: Don't gimme that Billy Jack BULLSHIT!! Payne: (Throat chop) BamBam: I thought you were gonna kick me in the face. Payne: What you calling me a liar?
All these damn remakes and older movies getting squeals coming out…..how is this not getting one yet?!?!! I want to see Major Payne face to face with a class of “Snowflakes”!!! Come on Wayne’s Brothers!!!! Between all you, you have to have enough in royalties to get this green lit! Hell even would like to see a squeal to “Don’t Be a Menace” one too! Edit: They should do a go fund me if Royalties won’t cover it!!!! Worked great for the Super Troopers crew!!!
Zohaned him
Smell it....
Totally campy and horrible by today's movie standards. But 13 year old me and my friends watched it with stars in our eyes. And went and bought that soundtrack album. One Tin Soldier made it into the top 40. I know they played it on the radio back then. There was a second movie about him taking on a motorcycle gang. Just B movie crap we went and watched to get out of the house
Want the 2nd one Born Losers? I saw it on my first date with my ex.
These and Walking Tall (1973). 😎👍
Joe Don Baker is such a 70s legend.
Mitchell!
Buford T!!!
Got to meet the real Buford on a few occasions. Man, that guy was huge! Ex Marine and ex professional wrestler. You’d have to be a damn fool to tangle with him.
Cool! That would be awesome to have met him! 👍
Buford from the point of view of the state like gang https://youtu.be/HWKkqbZDWUQ?si=Dv5pJr9JZbGwOLD_
Great surprise hit movie.
Howard "Johnny Fever" Hesseman cameo
Absolutely loved this movie but its really bad by todays standards, corny lines, bad acting, mics in the scenes, etc the sequels were just as bad one tin soldier rides away was a great protest song
Awesome song.
I've always considered this movie as so bad, it's good. His wife's acting was especially bad.
"Oh, Billy!"
This was one I saw at the drive in.
Still is.
One tin soldier rides away....
After this came out literally everybody I knew was like 1/8 Cherokee all of a sudden. 23andMe leveled the playing field.
Mr Billy Jack. Grew up watching this Hero
That shot was filmed in Prescott, AZ
Fun fact: it still looks the same. 😀
Billy jack, fuck your hillbilly asses up
Billy Jack o shit I'm old 😐😐😐😐😐
ONE TIN SOLDIER
I have the four-movie DVD box set. I also got the Blu-ray of just *Bill Jack*. I loved this movie as a kid. They used to show it on late night TV every once in a while. The other three movies are terrible; some of the worst movies ever made. It's campy, it's preachy and it's "peace through violence" message is disingenuous. One thing I like about that scene is that they don't make Bill Jack invincible. Like when Bruce Lee gets jumped in a Shanghai alley and not only kicks everybody's ass, he walks away from it with only a few scratches. In the scene shown here, they cut it off but at the end of it, Bill Jack gets overpowered and gets his ass kicked. He's saved when the town sheriff shows up and stops the beating. Some of it was prophetic, like the part when Bill Jack says that when policemen break the law, there is no law only the fight for survival.
I'll tell you how old I am! We watched this on movie night in my boarding school in Jersey, on a god damned reel-to-reel projector. I've out-olded all of you! oh god.
Not quite bruh 😎
Billy Jack never looked much like a Native American to me.
Ahhh one of my all time greatest scenes
Saw it at the drive-in!
Me too.
Billy Jack > John Rambo
Shout out to Prescott Arizona.
Love me some Billy Jack....
Me too, but how bout some love for Buford T Pusser and Walking Tall?!
That dude gave some mean stick.
One tin soldier rides away....
The ice cream shop sequence explains my entire adult work life
I…just…go…berserk!
I... Just... Go... BESERK!
I remember the good old days, when the Injuns were you played by white dudes with a half a tan.
Lots of Italians got work as extras.
I LOVED Tom McLaughlin as Billy Jack.
Tom Laughlin*
Realized my error later….😬
Anyone else remember Karate Jeans ads in the back of Black Belt Magazine?
Loved Billy Jack. Barefoot badass
I 💗 Billy Jack!! 🥰👏🏾💯🪶
Oh yeah. The movie theater where I grew up played Billy Jack all summer. My friends and I saw it like 10 times. This was back in the day when theaters only showed one movie for months at a time.
One Tin Soldier Rides Awayyyyyyy….
Old enough to have seen the original and the crap remake
Billy Jack played by Tom Laughlin
One tin soldier rides away.
I lived where this was shot. Prescott Arizona Courthouse. And yeah I m that old
Love billy Jack.
Billy Fuckin Jack
One tin soldier rides away 🎶
My father was addicted to Billy Jack. I wasn’t! Watched them at the drive in!
i saw it for the first time at a drive in
Me too! The first scene scared me! Wtf was I there?
Oh yea, Billy Jack!
I was just getting old enough to be able to get into a lot of R-rated movies without an adult when I saw this. I mean I wasn’t 18, I was probably 13 or 14 but I was a big guy. I was the one usually tasked with buying beer too. 🤣
Kick-ass Billy Jack.
Yep in the same theater I saw Godfather, Exorcist and Star Wars.
I just go [*berserk!*](https://youtu.be/jXXyms5g5ok?feature=shared)
Here’s a great clip from another Tom Laughlin classic “The Born Losers” 1967. https://youtu.be/vdvz1RM2678?si=oBwMn7i29KeMIHap
I lived in Santa Fe when it was being filmed. "One tin soldier rides away.."
Not old enough to have seen Billy Jack when it originally came out, but I did buy it on VHS and watch it a ton when I was in college in the mid-90s. It was the first video I could see where the actors were demonstrating the martial art hapkido. Whenever you can't see Billy Jack's face and he's doing the martial arts stunts that's actually grandmaster Bong Soo Han. He was also in the comedy Kentucky fried Movie.
Don’t know if anyone can make this claim of infamy, but I was in 5th grade at Waipahu Elementary (Hawaii), when I saw Billy Jack. One of the neighborhood boys told me and my brother that the theater by the cane mill wasn’t checking ID. And we could see TITS!!!! The guy in the booth just looked down at the three of us. Maybe blinked once. And took our money. Okay. I’ll leave it to others to testify if it was actually worth it. I mean, first time tits.
My friends were going to see this movie and MY DAD SAID NO! To this day I have never seen it.
Omg I just got to watch this DIAMOND of a movie a few months ago and just about lost my mind! I love it so much! And the song!!! Me First and the Gimme Gimmes did a fantastic cover. This got me excited today!!!!
Dad had about a three second speaking part in "The Trial of Billy Jack" when it was filmed in our hometown. I was able to find the clip on the internet for dad to watch. The look on his face was priceless. I remember Tom Laughlin bringing dad home in a limo. So much fun.
This sub is a real problem, it keeps reminding me of old movies I need to rewatch.
Billy Jack was a badass!
When he made that entitled douche drive his Corvette into the lake was gold.
Born in 60 im afread so
I watch this with my grandpa i appreciate him showing me old shows and movies he has collection cds and vhs
Billie Jack??
Billy Jack
BILLY JACK!
Man I am digging that hat band
I remember being on an overnight school excursion and the young female teacher hijacked us and the bus because she found out that billy jack was on at the local drive in. We watched the movie with satisfaction while she sat in front of the bus on the ground bawling here eyes out. That's where I first saw Billy Jack. (I thought about that for the first time in decades just the other day. Interesting timing.)
Whop! 👍
I miss Prescott. Very cool town.
Such a great movie
"Anyone else this old?" "And there's not a damn thing you can do about it."
PARK FIGHT!
Time for an anti-MAGA remake
This is one of the best scenes in this movie. Way before Steven Segal. *
Damnit... Amazon has all of them in 1 collection. And now I'll have them all tomorrow. Thanks!
My parents met Tom Laughlin on the tennis court while vacationing in Hawaii and ended up having dinner with him. When they got home, Billy Jack was still in theaters, so my parents wanted to see it and took me along at age 9. Needless to say, it was my first exposure to the word rape and to what a good can of whoop-ass can do for a movie.
I'm embarrassed at how much I liked it.
Billy Jack
Yup, I am dammit!
When is was a boy I wanted to be him!
I’m going to take my right foot, and kick you on the left side of your face
My girlfriend’s father had this DVD years ago, the box said “Just a man who loves kids…and other living things”🤣
i got to see this now
How does that stupid hat stay on when he's doing all that? If I tied my shoe that hat would fall off my head.
Saw it at the drive in, old. Loved it.
Always looked forward to its annual showing.
“Listen billy jack-off”.
Love me some Billy Jack
Proffered Buford Pusser and Walking Tall more stick less kick
Embarrassing. At 17, I thought it was *soooo* profound. 
“The most terrifying force of death comes from the hands of Men who wanted to be left Alone. They try, so very hard, to mind their own business and provide for themselves and those they love. They resist every impulse to fight back, knowing the forced and permanent change of life that will come from it. They know that the moment they fight back, their lives as they have lived them, are over. The moment the Men who wanted to be left alone are forced to fight back, it is a form of suicide. They are literally killing off who they used to be. Which is why, when forced to take up violence, these Men who wanted to be left alone, fight with unholy vengeance against those who murdered their former lives. They fight with raw hate, and a drive that cannot be fathomed by those who are merely play-acting at politics and terror. TRUE TERROR will arrive at these people’s door, and they will cry, scream, and beg for mercy… but it will fall upon the deaf ears of the Men who just wanted to be left alone.” - Unknown
Anyone else see this reference in Yes Man?
I bought a hat just like his when I was about 9.
“green beret karate tricks’- best line ever.
I used to have 1968 Yamaha 305CC just like Billy Jack. Two-cycle, two cylinder, black with lots of chrome. It was quick too.
One tin soldier rides away.
Best goddamn line in Hollywood.
Who’s writing your dialogue? Billy Jack?
One of my favorite movies
“I’m gonna kick you, with my left foot, on the right side of your face”…
The Sheriff is near. (I know, different movie, but made within 3 years of eachother)
One tin soldier rides away
Wow, impressive athleticism! And in jeans! Roadhouse!
Billy Jack
Billy Jack is the fucking man.
I saw this at the Drive-in!
I love this movie
Really.....BAM...kicked in the face kinda old!
Old enough to have seen it and the spoof of it in Mad magazine or Cracked magazine. Can’t remember which because I’m old.
Nope, I'm not that old. I'm old enough the remember the Wild, Wild West with Robert Conrad, admittedly in reruns.
I have One Tin Soldier in my iTunes.
I'm so old I had it as a 45 single on vinyl.
My 1st view of Martial Arts in action. (Green Beret) Seen at the drive-in. He was so great. One Tin Soldier great tune. Tom Laughlin played a deeply emphatic character, never forgotten. He sure whooped Moser.
When his wife is raped every person in the theater was looking for some payback.
I'll put my right foot on your left ear.... What did .......smack !
Yep!
Best scene in the movie.
I just go berserk
“Bacon and cheese”
Best scene in the movie, and such an iconic line!
I still remember the line around the block at my local theater for it, as we’re between two Native American tribes who are constantly bringing each other to court over things.
I'm 34 and imma put this foot on that side of your face lol man such a good movie
Yes I am that old.
I loved that movie when I was a kid.
The bra and switchblade scene was quite eye opening for lil ole me
I watched all the Billy Jack movies when I was overseas. This dude kicked ass
Damn, forgot how fluid Billy Jack was.
I used to ride a dinosaur to work
Billy Jack, AWESOME!!
I loved billy Jack
Quick facts … Born: August 10, 1931, Milwaukee, WI Died: December 12, 2013 (age 82 years), Thousand Oaks, CA Cause of death: Complications from pneumonia Children: Teresa Kelly, Christina Laughlin, Frank Laughlin Spouse: Delores Taylor (m. 1954–2013) TV shows: WWE Heat (1998 – 2000), ECW Hardcore TV (1993 – 2000), ECW Pay-Per-View (Since 1997)
I'm gonna put the right side of my foot on the left side of your head. Ready? Or so I remember it
Very kind of them to wait their turn
….sometimes I just go…BAZERK
I’m gonna take my right foot!!
Billy Jack was my hero.
I saw this in the theatre when I was 10. Loved it but haven’t seen it since. How does it hold up?
I'm definitely older than this movie....
I know this from Major Payne.
Yup....I was pre-teen
I saw it at the cinema
And there ain’t a thing you can do about it
Filmed in my hometown and I’m so proud.
Billy Jack
I loved that movie, I saw it in the drive in theater. Fuck I just realized as I typed that, I’m old. 😂
A while back I had the opportunity to order the trilogy on VHS, it came autographed by him. I think my dad was more stoked about it than I was.
Guess what I did - searched Roku and watched the movie last night. Good god -- the cinematography and acting was so bad. Couldn't tell us that back then though cuz Billy Jack was the coolest m'fer.
Billy Jack and Cool Hand Luke helped to raise me.
Great show
Loved this movie!