Thomasine & Bushrod

Thomasine and Bushrod
Film poster
Directed by	Gordon Parks Jr.
Written by	Max Julien
Produced by	Harvey Bernhard Max Julien
Starring	Vonetta McGee Max Julien
Edited by	Frank C. Decot
Music by	Coleridge-Tylor Perkinson
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date	April 10, 1974 (1974-04-10)
Running time	95 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Thomasine & Bushrod is a 1974 blaxploitation Western film directed by Gordon Parks, Jr., written by and starring Max Julien and Vonetta McGee and was released by Columbia Pictures.^[1] The title song was written by Arthur Lee and performed by his band Love.

Plot[]

Vonetta McGee plays Thomasine and Max Julien plays Bushrod in a film intended as a counterpart to the 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde.

Thomasine and Bushrod go on a crime spree through the American south between 1911 and 1915, acting as Robin Hood type heroes who steal from rich, white capitalists, then give to Africans, Mexicans, Native Americans and poor whites.

Cast[]

• Max Julien as J.P. Bushrod
• Vonetta McGee as Thomasine
• George Murdock as US Marshal Bogardie
• Glynn Turman as Jomo J. Anderson
• Juanita Moore as Pecolia
• Ben Zeller as Scruggs

See also[]

• List of American films of 1974

References[]

External links[]

• Thomasine & Bushrod via Internet Movie Database

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