Texans love a good western and have an exceptional opportunity on Saturday, February 27th to enjoy a special movie filmed in San Antonio and central Texas at the Alamo Drafthouse in Westlakes at 7:30 p.m.
A high point of celebrating Black History Month and the Rodeo will be especially unique to San Antonio during the world premiere of “Bass Reeves,” a motion picture chronicling the first African American U.S. Deputy Marshal of the West. In the genre of Wyatt Earp and Doc Holiday, Bass Reeves may be the most prolific western lawman not to have a movie made about him...until now.
James A. House, of “The Knight Watchmen” fame, stars as Bass Reeves and will fly in from North Carolina Saturday for the premiere.
Independent filmmaker Brett William Mauser and his team at Texas based Ponderous Productions, shot the story of Bass Reeves famous for arresting more than 3,000 outlaws in his career as Deputy Marshal.
A former slave, Bass fled to Indian Territory during the Civil War where he learned over 12 languages and studied the land until he knew the territory “like a cook knows her kitchen.” His knowledge made him the perfect choice to clean up “Hell’s Fringe.”
The film follows the courageous deputy marshal from the manhunt for the outlaw Bob Dozier (played by Craig Rainey) to the astounding and death-defying arrests of his career.
“We made a short film called 'OK', about the gunfight at the OK Corral,” Mauser says, “and it got a great response when it screened at the San Antonio Film Festival.”
“With that success, we knew it was time to move forward with a feature-length Western.” explained Mauser. “After working in action-adventure, the Western genre is a new area for us, so it was important to find the right story to tell.”
“We wanted it to be a story that hadn't been explored onscreen before, and when we learned about Bass Reeves, Brett said, 'This is the one,'” added producer Amanda Nutting
Santiago Villalobos also stars Reeves’ trusted posseman Martinez, Ernest Martinez as outlaw Jim Webb, and Gary Minter as outlaw Tom Story. Many local actors are featured in various parts.
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Comments
Good article. Very glad to see something about a man and a part of history that has been long neglected.
It's about time he was recognized. Yahoo!
Thumbs down. What a waste of subject matter. Could have been a Great film.To important for such a amateur effort.
I'm a Pistolero:
A II Amendment guy;
...I hold the life and
adventure of Bass Reeves
in the highest of esteem
and know the full meaning
of being "posseman."- Which
is what the body of language
in the II Amendment stands for...
'Always armed-always ready.'
The "...Well regulated Malitia..."
are possemen called to duty by
the Sheriffs within the several states...
Do not waste your time with this movie. It my as well been filmed in someones back yard with a hand held camera. The background is tacky flea market buildings with no relative sense of realism. Most of the acting is horrible. History has been shamed.
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