Thomasine & Bushrod
Thomasine and Bushrod | |
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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 |
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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[]
References[]
- ^ Lowry, Katharine (July 1974). "When All the Laughter Turned to Sap". Texas Monthly. p. 31.
External links[]
- Thomasine & Bushrod via Internet Movie Database
Categories:
- 1974 films
- English-language films
- 1970s crime films
- 1974 Western (genre) films
- American crime films
- American films
- Blaxploitation films
- Films directed by Gordon Parks Jr.
- Films set in the 1910s
- Columbia Pictures films
- African-American films
- African-American Western (genre) films
- 1970s English-language films
- 1970s crime film stubs