Billy Jack—an old favorite. This movie has everything: it has karate, cowboys, Indians, and hippies. There’s rock music, love stories, classic cars, and ice cream parlors. It’s got a talent show, an improv show, and a street show. It has a courtroom battle. It has a rattlesnake blood ritual and an old-timey shootout. There are bullies, corrupt cops, a pregnant teenage runaway, a girl with fake eyelashes, and a schoolmarm with sideburns.
Seriously, it has all those things.
Billy Jack was one of my dad’s favorites, and we loved watching it together as a family. Some fight scenes are in slow motion—awesome—and I adored the hippie message as a kid. The music is great, and I love the look of all the itchy-faced flower children in the film. It’s all gold.
Despite some truly horrendous sound dubbing and the leading lady’s weird sideburns, this movie will always be close to my heart.
This post was written by Tori.
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