Billy Jack (1971) Directed and co-written by Tom Laughlin (as T.C. Frank and Frank Christina). Julie Webb as Barbara and Ken Tobey as Deputy Mike
Barbara: I’m pregnant.
Mike: You’re what?
Barbara: Pregnant!
Mike: I’ve been expecting this. How long?
Barbara: Maybe six weeks.
Mike: Alright, where’s the father?
Barbara: Where’s the father? That’s funny. I don’t even know who the father is.
Mike: What’s that supposed to mean?
Barbara: It means, concerned father, that I was passed around by so many of those phony maharishi types who kept telling me that love is beautiful and all that bullshit… in other words, concerned father, I got balled by so many guys I don’t know if the father’s gonna be white, Indian, Mexican or black!
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The film packs a potent emotional wallop. No performance resonates like Delores Taylor’s. (she has been married to Laughlin for 58 years.)
Such a bizarre film. I imagine the tortured low-budget production must have contributed to the tonal inconsistency and weird contradictory messages it delivers, but all its weirdness seems apt for the time period.
Am I only one who finds this scene funny?