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Billy Jack Re-Release Shocker… All-Time Box Office Champ?!?

Written on 11/08/10 by in History


If you add together the initial $32.5M with the $60M from the re-release, you realize by the end of 1973, Billy Jack had made $92,500,000, which made it — I still can’t believe this — the highest grossing film in motion picture history!

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Original TV Commercials – Town Council Meeting

Written on 09/22/10 by in History, Video

For those of you that don’t know, the main undercurrent of ‘Billy Jack’ is the hostility between the rather conservative town and The Freedom School, run on a nearby Indian reservation. The town doesn’t like the ways or ‘hippies’ at the school, and after a violent fight in town between Posner’s cowboys and Billy Jack, the town council holds a meeting on how to…

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Out-of-Control Town Council Original TV Commercial

Written on 09/17/10 by in History, Video


Another one of the original TV commercials created for the re-release of ‘Billy Jack’ in 1973. We have 8 of these and will get them all posted here soon…

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Original TV Commercial – ‘The Hug’

Written on 08/30/10 by in History, Video


OK. I've gone crazy. Three posts already today. But you'll understand when you see what I've found... This is one of the original commercials created by Tom Laughlin (Billy Jack) for the 1973 re-release of his film 'Billy Jack' (the film was originally released...

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