Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971)
18
17/11/1980 (GB)
Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
1h 38m
- 52% (106 votes)
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The Film that THE MAN doesn't want you to see!
Overview
After saving a Black Panther from some racist cops, a black male prostitute goes on the run from "the man" with the help of the ghetto community and some disillusioned Hells Angels.
- Melvin Van PeeblesDirector, Screenplay
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$150,000
Revenue
$15,200,000
Keywords
- police brutality
- mexico
- homophobia
- brothel
- 1970s
- anti hero
- pimp
- black panther party
- on the run
- blaxploitation cinema
- racism
- los angeles, california
- revolutionary
- black stereotype
- racist cop
- whorehouse
- 1940s
- sex show
- tijuana, mexico
- black cinema
- corrupt cop
Top Billed Cast
Simon Chuckster
Beetle
Melvin Van Peebles
Sweetback
Hubert Scales
Mu-Mu
Mario Van Peebles
The Young Sweetback
John Dullaghan
Commissioner
John Amos
Biker
Lavelle Roby
Rhetta Hughes
Old Girlfriend
Norman Fields
Joe Tornatore
Recommendations
They Shall Not Grow Old (78%)
Fiddler on the Roof (77%)
The Public Enemy (72%)
Shanghai Blues (72%)
The Night Comes for Us (69%)
Fist of Fury (73%)
The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil (78%)
Moonlight (74%)
WALL·E (81%)
