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Release year: 1993

Storyline

In 1898 Cuba, five Buffalo Soldiers find a gold cache, desert and return to America where they help defend a black town from the KKK, all the while trying to avoid capture by lawmen and military authorities alike.

Top credits

Directors

Mario Van Peebles

Writers

Cast

Mario Van Peebles — Jesse
Stephen Baldwin — Little J
Charles Lane — Weezie
Paul Bartel — Mayor Bigwood

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Did you know

• A production assistant was specifically assigned to follow Tone Loc around between set-ups as he constantly wandered off-set, usually to the craft service table.

• The movie begins in 1898, but Colonel Graham (Billy Zane) is later seen wearing a tricorne hat as his civilian attire. This style of hat, while popular in America during the revolution, became much less popular in the earl 1800's, and would have been far out of date by the turn of the 20th century. Colonel Graham would look as out of place wearing that hat in 1898 as one would if casually wearing a top hat today.

• Salli Richardson-Whitfield found herself in the unusual position of shooting a naked love scene (it will be her only one in her career) with the film's star, Mario Van Peebles, who also directed the movie. The actress saw an unusual advantage to the arrangement: "It makes one less man in the room."