When Rose is running through the corridors trying to find Jack and has to get into that icy water - her reaction was real.
I have no idea if any of that is true or not, but I can say, with complete and utter conviction, that had Billy Jack Goes to Washington been released to theatres, there would have been a whole lot of disappointed Billy Jack fans out there.
Tom Laughlin won the grand prize for Billy Jack at the 1971 in Italy.