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Posse (1993)

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User Rating: 5.2/10 (1,348 votes)
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Overview

Director:
Mario Van Peebles
Writers:
Sy Richardson (written by) and
Dario Scardapane (written by)
Release Date:
14 May 1993 (USA) more view trailer
Genre:
Western more
Tagline:
The Untold Story of the Wild West more
Plot:
A group of mostly black infantrymen return from the Spanish-American War with a cache of gold. They... more | add synopsis
User Comments:
Good idea badly executed more

Cast

 (Cast overview, first billed only)

Mario Van Peebles ... Jesse Lee

Stephen Baldwin ... Jimmy J. 'Little J' Teeters
Charles Lane ... Weezie

Tommy 'Tiny' Lister ... Obobo (as Tiny Lister)
Big Daddy Kane ... Father Time

Billy Zane ... Colonel Graham

Blair Underwood ... Carver
Melvin Van Peebles ... Papa Joe
Salli Richardson ... Lana
Tone Loc ... Angel

Pam Grier ... Phoebe
Vesta Williams ... Vera (as Vesta)

Isaac Hayes ... Cable
Richard Jordan ... Sheriff Bates
Paul Bartel ... Mayor Bigwood
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Additional Details

Runtime:
111 min
Country:
UK | USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby
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Trivia:
A P.A. was specifically assigned to follow Tone Loc around between set-ups as he constantly wandered off-set, usually to the craft service table. more
Goofs:
Continuity: When Jesse Lee is fighting Colonel Graham in the burning building, the Colonel's eye-patch moves about between shots. more
Quotes:
Father Time: The Red Man ain't got no problem with the Black Man. As for you, White Boy, that's a whole different story. I mean, first you enslave the Black Man, exploit the Yellow Man, and then you kill off the Red Man so you can snatch up his land for railroads. Can I get a witness?
Obobo: Amen!
Jimmy J. 'Little J' Teeters: Well if I may approach the bench your Honor, first, I ain't ever personally enslaved nobody so, Time, you can kiss my White ass. Second of all, if there was a train coming through right now, I'd be on it and you'd be on it,except the only difference would be, I'd be gambling on it and you'd be fetching my chips like a little houseboy becuase you can't even cheat right. Now, can I get a witness?
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Movie Connections:
References C'era una volta il West (1968) more

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4 out of 8 people found the following comment useful:-
Good idea badly executed, 7 July 2001
1/10
Author: mfrost71w from Kent, England

An awful film; badly written, badly acted, cliched, hackneyed, dross. The premise is such a good one and a chance to educate about black cowboys but the film is truly dire. It is a curious mix of a bad 1950's Randolph Scott B movie and a bad 1970's spaghetti western. The villains are cardboard, the flashbacks laughable, the dialogue excruciating.

The deliberate anachronisms (such as 'Victorian' rap singers and modern swear words like "motherf****er"), are irritating to the extreme.

A Frankenstein monster that died on the lab table.

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