Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
1971·United States·97 min.
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The film tells the story of Sweetback (Van Peebles), an apolitical black sex performer who becomes a reluctant picaresque hero when he kills the two white policemen who brutalized a young prisoner for racist reasons. On the run to Mexico, Sweetback encounters all manner of provocatively stereotypical characters, including a shower-capped ghetto thug who won't help him, a hypocritical Baptist preacher, and, of course, a host of women who can't get enough of his supercharged sexuality.
DirectorMelvin Van Peebles
ScreenwriterMelvin Van Peebles
CinematographyRobert Maxwell
CastSimon Chuckster·Melvin Van Peebles·Hubert Scales·John Dullaghan·West Gale·Niva Rochelle·Rhetta Hughes·Nick Ferrari·Ed Rue·Lavelle Roby·Mario Van Peebles
Original titleSweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song