POSSE

Posse – U.S.A. title

Posse: The Revenge of Jessie Lee – U.K. title

La revanche de Jessie Lee – French title

Posse – Die Rache des Jessie Lee – German title

Posse – La leggenda di Jessie Lee – Italian title

Posse – a vinganca de Jessie Lee – Portuguese title

Renegados – Spanish title

A 1992 U.S.A. British co-production [PolyGram Filmed Entertainment (Hollywood), Working Title Films (London)]

Producers: Preston L. Holmes, Jim Steele (James Steele)

Director: Mario Van Peebles (Mario Peebles)

Story: Sy Richardson, Dario Scardapane

Screenplay: Sy Richardson, Dario Scardapane

Cinematography: Peter Menzies, Jr. [Technicolor, Panavision]

Music: Michel Colombier

Song: “The Posse (Shoot ‘Em Up)” sung by Intelligent Hoodlum

Song: “Posse Love” sung by Tone Loc

Song: One Night of Freedom” sung by B.B.O.T.I.

Song: “Cruel Jim Crow (Posse Don’t Play That)” sung by Melvin Van Peebles)

Song: “I Think to Myself” sung by Top Choice Clique

Song: “Tell Me”, “Ride for Your Life” sung by Vesta (Mary Williams)

Song: “Free at Last” sung by David & David

Song: “If I Knew You at All” sung by Salli Richardson

Song: “Freemansville (Homecoming)” sung by The Sounds of Blackness

Song: “Let That Hammer Fall” sung by The Neville Brothers

Running time: 113 minutes

Cast:

Jessie Lee – Mario Van Peebles (Mario Peebles)

Jimmy J. ‘Little’ Teeters – Stephen Baldwin

Weezie – Charles Lane

Obobo – Tiny Lister (Thomas Lister, Jr.)

Father Time – Big Daddy Kane (Antonio Hardy)

Colonel Graham – Billy Zane (William Zane, Jr.)

Carver – Blair Underwood

Papa Joe – Melvin Van Peebles

Lana – Salli Richardson

Angel – Tone Loc (Anthony Smith)

Storyteller – Woody Strode (Woodrow Strode)

Vera – Vesta (Mary Williams)

King David – Robert Hooks

Cable – Isaac Hayes (Isaac Hayes, Jr.)

Mayor Bigwood – Paul Bartel

Sheriff Bates – Richard Jordan (Robert Jordan)

Preston – Reginald Vel Johnson

Jimmy Love – Stephen J. Cannell (Stephen Joseph Cannell)

Reporters – Reginald Hudlin, Warrington Hudlin

Phoebe – Pam Grier (Pamela Grier)

Snopes – Nipsey Russell (Julius Russell)

Walker – James Bigwood

Deputy Buntzman – Mark Buntzman

Spanish soldier – Ismael Calderon

Susan – Tracy Lee Chavis

Town drunk – James E. Christopher

Cook – Lawrence Cook (Albert Cooks)

Deputy Tom – Richard Edson

Doubletree – Richard Gant

Deputy Errol – Thomas Steven Hall (Thomas Stephen Hall)

Klikai – Clabe Hartley

Big Kate – Sandra Ellis Lafferty

Little Joseph – Jeffrey Lloyd Layne

John – Robert May

Monty – T.J. McClain

Izzy – Christopher Michael

Alex – Bob Minor (Robert Minor)

Railroad singer – Aaron Neville

Two Bears – Steve Reevis

Shepard – Sy Richardson

Photographer – Dario Scardapane

Aaron – Frank A. Soto (Frank Aguirre Soto)

Head rower – David Jean Thomas

Wallace – Mark Twogood

Dilsey – Karen Williams

Iron Brigade members – Will ‘Nahkohe’ Strickland, Geo Cook, Michel Cook, I. Keith Cunningham, Andrew J. Gregory

Street performers – Badd Boyz of the Industry (Anthony R. Walker, Damian Johnson, Eugene Brooks, Shon Evans, Shydi Evans])

With: Troy Antoine LaFaye, Sonny Skyhawk (Sonny Robideaux)

The posse of Jessie Lee is comprised of a small group of survivors of the Spanish American War who escape from an ambush set by the sadistic Colonel Graham. With a cache of gold taken from Graham they leave Cuba and return to the U.S. Lee's posse moves west as he pursues vengeance against the men who lynched his father. With Colonel Graham hot on his heels, Lee arrives in Freemanville (a community of ex-slaves), the culmination of his father's dreams, whose existence is in danger from a group of corrupt whites living in the next town led by sheriff Bates.

YouTube trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV2sjiU-qi0