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• Contract disputes between Laughlin and various producers caused the film to change hands between three different film studios, and delaying its release for three years. In 1973, Laughlin filed a fifty-one million dollar lawsuit against Warner studios for "improperly publicizing" Billy Jack.
  
  
• The unusual kick that Billy Jack uses in the fight in the park is known in Hapkido Karate as an "Outside Crescent Kick", a technique in which the leg is raised and swung outward striking with the outside edge of the foot.
  
  
• Elizabeth James was originally cast in the film but was later fired and replaced by Delores Taylor.
  
  
• The Hapkido fights in the film were choreographed by Hapkido master Bong Soo Han. Master Han not only choreographed but also body doubled for Tom Laughlin in the fight scenes.
  
  

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