Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
Summary:
Produced, directed, written, scored by, and starring Melvin Van Peebles, this landmark "blaxploitation" film was as controversial as it was popular for its then X-rated story of one African-American man's triumph over the Man. After beating a couple of white cops he witnessed brutalizing a local black revolutionary, sex show performer Sweetback (Van Peebles) has to go on the run. A... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Melvin Van Peebles - (Sweetback)
Simon Chuckster - (Beetle)
Hubert Scales - (Mu-Mu)
John Dullaghan - (Commissioner)
West Gale
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Review:
Financed and distributed outside the major Hollywood studio apparatus, Sweetback not only broke the rules of Hollywood structure with its energetic montages and jump cuts, it also revealed the financial force of the African-American audience. With its powerful African-American hero expressing rage at the white world in a story starring "the Blac... Continue >>
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