Thomasine & Bushrod

Thomasine & Bushrod is a 1974 Western film directed by Gordon Parks Jr., written by and starring Max Julien as J.P. Bushrod and Vonetta McGee as Thomasine, who operate a crime spree through the American South between 1911 and 1915, targeting rich white capitalists while giving to Mexicans, Native Americans, and poor whites. As they evade capture led by George Murdock's U.S. Marshal Bogardie, the couple uses automobiles to commit bank robberies, with Bushrod's heroic actions earning praise from the press. Despite their outlaw lifestyle, Thomasine wants a stable life and builds a nest egg, but her death in a trap sets off a violent confrontation between Bushrod and the marshal.