Posse (1993 film)
Posse is a 1993 American Western film directed by and starring Mario Van Peebles. Featuring a large ensemble cast, the film tells the story of a posse of AfricanAmerican soldiers and one ostracized white soldier, who are all betrayed by a corrupt colonel. The story starts with the group escaping with a cache of gold, and continues with their leader Jessie Lee Van Peebles taking revenge on the men who killed his preacher father. The story is presented as a flashback told by an unnamed old man Woody Strode. The title of the film refers to a group of people who are summoned to help law enforcement officers.
With Colonel Graham and his troops supposedly dead, the remnants of the 10thincluding Jessie, Obobo Tiny Lister, Angel Tone Lc and Little J, along with Weeziesneak out of Cuba and Jessie leads them to New Orleans. Soon after arriving their arrival, Little J meets a gambler named Father Time Big Daddy Kane and they begin playing poker, at which point Time is caught cheating. Little J helps the gambler escape and they go back to the hotel room where the others are hiding at telling them We were never here in fear that the vengeful gamblers might come for them. Doing just as J feared, the gamblers come in search of him and Father Time, only to be shot in the back by Colonel Graham and his troops, who survived the skirmish in Cuba. Angel is killed in the firefight while Little J, Father Time and the others barely escape. They meet up with Jessie who had left earlier to finish some business in a town out West.The newly formed posse heads West with Colonel Graham on their heels every step of the way. They eventually stop in a town where Jessie has ammunition custommade out of gold in order to kill the demons of his past, using one to kill the man who made the ammunitionas he was one of the men who lynched Jesses father King David Robert Hooks years earlier Father Time later explains that the voodoo ladies in New Orleans believe that gold is the only way to kill a demon. They make their way to Freemanville, a town founded by King David and composed entirely of AfricanAmericans. Jessie is reunited with several old acquaintances, including his good friend Carver Blair Underwood, who is now the sheriff of Freemanville. Carvers deputy goes to Cutterstown, not wanting to tip anyone off that Carver is working with Cutterstowns sheriff, Bates Richard Jordan. He informs Bates that Jessie has returned to Freemanville. The posse enjoys the hospitality of Freemanville until Bates tells Carver that the town will burn unless Jessie is turned over to him and his deputies Sheriff Bates
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