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Thomasine & Bushrod is a american film of genre Drama directed by Gordon Parks, Jr. released in USA on 10 april 1974 with Max Julien
Thomasine & Bushrod (1974)
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Add to a movie listThomasine & Bushrod is a 1974 blaxploitation film directed by Gordon Parks, Jr., written by and starring Max Julien and Vonetta McGee. The title song was written by Arthur Lee and performed by his band Love.
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Vonetta McGee plays Thomasine and Max Julien plays Bushrod in a film intended as a counterpart to the 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde.Actors
Max Julien
(J.P. Bushrod)
Glynn Turman
(Jomo J. Anderson)
Juanita Moore
(Pecolia)
George Murdock
(U.S. Marshal Bogardie)
Vonetta McGee
(Thomasine)
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