The story of Rita Bo Brown, a working-class butch from rural Oregon, an
anti-authoritarian, anti-capitalist, ex-prisoner and member of the militant, underground George Jackson Brigade, active in the 1970s in the Pacific Northwest.

THE GENTLEMAN BANK ROBBER is a portrait of revolutionary Rita Bo Brown, a white working class butch from rural Oregon who became known as “The Gentleman Bank Robber” in the 1970s for combining her butch style of dress with a polite way of demanding funds from bank tellers. The film moves between everyday moments with Bo in and around her current home in Oakland, California, and historical retelling of the events of Bo’s extraordinary life through interviews with Bo and her collaborators, archival materials, and rare social movement ephemera.

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