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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. Written by
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From the director of "New Jack City"
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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.
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When Jesse Lee is fighting Colonel Graham in the burning building, the Colonel's eye-patch moves about between shots.
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Jimmy J. 'Little J' Teeters:
Damn! Who turned out the lights? Just a little humor. Have to admit I'm funny, ain't I?
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This film is dedicated to the memory of Rev. King David Lee (1883-1979) and Abe Richardson (1861-1961)
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Followed by
Los Locos (1997)
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Visually stunning, extremely rich in detail, fast action sequences, innovative camera movements, and an historic interpretation of afro-americans settling in the west in the late 800's, this movie is highly unconventional. The more recent "Wild Wild West" has some similarities, "The Ballad of Cable Houge" comes to mind. Using comedy, fantasy, surrealism, the plot has a group of afro-americans traveling with a case of gold, chased by a posse. They join a settlement of afro-americans in the West, which while free by law, are reminded by the neighboring white towns that their liberty of action does not border out of their free town, and their law does not apply to white people. In a poignant scene, the only white man, who was in the original group of afro-americans with the case of gold, is brutally killed in public view by the white neighbors, almost to demonstrate that a white folk that joins the black folks has reached his lowest social status, lower that simply a black man, which by law cannot be killed without reason.