Thomasine & Bushrod
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.
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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 |
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Running time | 95 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
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.
Plot
In 1911, Thomasine is thrown in jail after she knocks out and robs a man who attempted to force himself on her sexually without paying her for prostitution. After the sheriff lets her go, she notices a wanted poster of her former boyfriend, Bushrod, and tracks him down under the guise of being a bounty hunter, only to reunite with him and resume their relationship. After he kills a notorious bank robber nicknamed "Adolph the Butcher", Bushrod is convinced by Thomasine to rob banks under her leadership. While Bushrod gives stolen money to African Americans, Mexicans, Native Americans and poor whites, Thomasine just wants to survive.
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.