A black soldier returns from fighting for the Union in the Civil War only to find out that his mother has been murdered by a gang of white thugs. He becomes a bounty hunter, determined to track down and kill the men who killed his mother.
Acting
Fred Williamson's ice-cold charisma carries every frame.
Direction
Spangler keeps it tight at 83 minutes—no fat, all fury.
Director
Larry G. Spangler
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during the blaxploitation boom, Joshua was one of the rare Westerns to center Black revenge against Confederate holdouts—basically Inglourious Basterds for the Reconstruction era.
Fred Williamson produced this himself after studios balked at a Black Western lead. He financed it through his own company Po' Boy Productions and shot it in just 18 days in Arizona.
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