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Thomasine & Bushrod (1974)

Thomasine & Bushrod poster
Directed by
Gordon Parks, Jr.
Genre
blaxploitation film, crime film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 35m
Rating
6.3 of 10 from 11 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man and a woman rob their way across the American South in the early 1900s. They are lovers and outlaws, running from the law.

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What happens

Thomasine & Bushrod is a 1974 Western film directed by Gordon Parks Jr., written by and starring Max Julien and Vonetta McGee and released by Columbia Pictures. The title song was written by Arthur Lee and performed by his band Love. 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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