A group of mostly black infantrymen return from the Spanish-American War with a cache of gold. They travel to the West where their leader searches for the men who lynched his father.
Direction
Mario Van Peebles directs with chaotic maximalist energy.
Costume
Black Western aesthetic that absolutely slaps.
Acting
Big Daddy Kane as Father Time steals every scene.
Director
Mario Van Peebles
Mario Van Peebles
Jesse Lee
Stephen Baldwin
Jimmy J. 'Little J' Teeters
Tommy Lister Jr.
Obobo
Big Daddy Kane
Father Time
Billy Zane
Colonel Graham
Pam Grier
Phoebe
Salli Richardson-Whitfield
Lana
Isaac Hayes
Cable
Charles Lane
Weezie
James Bigwood
Walker
Mark Buntzman
Deputy Buntzman
Reginald Hudlin
Reporter #1
Warrington Hudlin
Reporter #2
Melvin Van Peebles
Papa Joe
Woody Strode
Storyteller
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film explicitly references the real Buffalo Soldiers and Black cowboys history textbooks ignored. Van Peebles made this to correct the record.
Mario Van Peebles cast his own father Melvin Van Peebles in a cameo as a racist old man—a deliberate inversion of their real relationship and Hollywood's typical racial casting.
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