Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 111 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States
- Violence
- Strong
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
The story
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.
- shootout
- racial tension
- gun fight
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Mario Van Peebles
Jesse Lee
Stephen Baldwin
Jimmy J. 'Little J' Teeters
Tommy Lister Jr.
Obobo
Big Daddy Kane
Father Time
- Billy Zane — Colonel Graham
- Pam Grier — Phoebe
- Salli Richardson-Whitfield — Lana
- Isaac Hayes — Cable
- Charles Lane — Weezie
- James Bigwood — Walker
- Mark Buntzman — Deputy Buntzman
- Reginald Hudlin — Reporter #1
- Warrington Hudlin — Reporter #2
- Melvin Van Peebles — Papa Joe
- Woody Strode — Storyteller
- Directed
- Mario Van Peebles
- Written
- Dario Scardapane, Sy Richardson
Production
- Rating
- 5.4 / 10 · 94 ratings
- Studio
- Working Title Films, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
