Posse (1993)

Director:

Mario Van Peebles

Writers:

Sy Richardson (written by) and
Dario Scardapane (written by)

Release Date:

14 May 1993 (USA)

Genre:

Western

Tagline:

The Untold Story of the Wild West

Plot:

A group of mostly black infantrymen return from the Spanish-American War with a cache of gold. They...

Plot Keywords:

African American | Black Romance | Black Western | Father Daughter Relationship | Friendship

Cast

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

Runtime:

111 min

Country:

UK | USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Iceland:16 | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | UK:15 | USA:R | Norway:18 (1993)

Company:

PolyGram Filmed Entertainment

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.

Goofs:

Continuity: When Jesse Lee is fighting Colonel Graham in the burning building, the Colonel's eye-patch moves about between shots.

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?
[...]

Movie Connections:

References C'era una volta il West (1968)

Good idea badly executed

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.