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Budget 7 USD
The Indian Rights symposium in the film was unscripted. The testimonials delivered were written by the actual speakers/actors.
The first film to be launched in a wide release in the modern fashion, debuting simultaneously at over 1,000 theaters, and booked by the filmmakers on a four-wall basis, renting the theaters and controlling the box-office receipts. Major distributors did not attempt wide-release debuts until 1975, beginning with Columbia for the film Breakout (1975).
The film was made as a direct response to the 1970 Kent State massacre, when National Guardsmen fired on a crowd of protesting students, killing four of them.
This was the debut of Kathy Cronkite, who played Kristen. She is the daughter of Walter Cronkite.
A few months before the release of the film, a potential disaster threatened the success of the release. In "Variety", director/star/writer Laughlin read the news that the executives in charge of the film's distribution, Lou Marx (who was once a top executive at MGM during the studio's golden days) and Roger Reese (who was almost single-handedly responsible for the original film's financial success) had suddenly quit, and they had done it during a press conference at the National Association of Theater Owners convention in Atlanta, the biggest event of the year for the nation's theater owners. The reason they had quit, they announced, was that Laughlin had changed the deal and was now refusing to give distributors the picture without a cash advance. Laughlin regarded it as an outright lie. With this development, Laughlin and wife Delores Taylor knew that their film would be denied exhibition in each of the 1,200 theaters that agreed to show it. The problem was resolved and the film went on to become one of the top money-makers of 1974.
"Billy Jack: [surrounded by an angry mob] If there is absolutely no way you can get out of taking a terrible beating, the only sensible thing to do is, get in the first lick!"
"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."
