<P> Laughlin wrote, directed, and starred in The Young Sinner . Originally filmed in 1960, and shot in Milwaukee over a period of 14 days, it is the story of a star high school athlete who falls deeper and deeper into trouble after being caught in bed with his girlfriend . The film was intended to be the first of a trilogy entitled We Are All Christ . It premiered in 1963 under the original title Among the Thorns, which was changed to The Young Sinner upon its 1965 re-release . In 1960, Laughlin planned to make a film, Poison in Our Land, based on the true story of a Texas couple affected by atomic radiation, but the project was never realized . </P> <P> In 1959, Laughlin and his wife founded a Montessori preschool in Santa Monica, California . By 1961, Laughlin had left the film business to devote all of his time to the school, which by 1964 had become the largest school of its kind in the United States . It was profiled by Time magazine in July of that year . However, by 1965, the school had gone bankrupt . One of his students was Christian Brando, son of Laughlin's friend, Marlon Brando . </P> <P> In 1965, Laughlin told the Milwaukee Sentinel that he planned to make a film on the life of a noted Catholic priest, Father William DuBay . However, the picture did not get past the planning stages . Two years later, in 1967, he wrote, directed (as T.C. Frank) and starred in the motorcycle - gang exploitation film The Born Losers . This was the first picture in which the character of Billy Jack appeared . It was a box - office hit . </P> <P> After The Born Losers, Laughlin was set to begin a film project with backing from such figures as Marlon Brando, Jack Lemmon, Candice Bergen, and director Robert Wise . The movie was to be a documentary on the issues facing African Americans in the 1960s and would have focused greatly on the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. followed by a discussion of race . However, the film was never made . </P>

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