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Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971)
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23 October 1993 (Japan) moreTagline:
The Film that THE MAN doesn't want you to see! morePlot:
After saving a Black Panther from some racist cops, a black prostitute goes on the run from "the man" with the help of the ghetto community and some disillusioned Hells Angels. full summary | add synopsisNewsDesk:
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90-Second Expert: Blaxploitation (From TotalFilm. 13 November 2008, 6:53 AM, PST)
90-Second Expert: Blaxploitation
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The absolute beginning of a real "black" presence. moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Simon Chuckster | ... | Beetle | |
| Melvin Van Peebles | ... | Sweetback | |
| Hubert Scales | ... | Mu-Mu | |
| John Dullaghan | ... | Commissioner | |
| West Gale | |||
| Niva Rochelle | |||
| Rhetta Hughes | ... | Old Girl Friend | |
| Nick Ferrari | |||
| Ed Rue | |||
| John Amos | ... | Biker (as Johnny Amos) | |
| Lavelle Roby | |||
| Ted Hayden | |||
| Mario Van Peebles | ... | Young Sweetback / Kid (as Mario Peebles) | |
| Sonja Dunson | |||
| Michael Augustus |
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View content advisory for parentsRuntime:
97 minCountry:
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1.37 : 1 moreSound Mix:
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USA:R (1974) | USA:X (1971) | Canada:(Banned) (Nova Scotia) | New Zealand:R18 | UK:18 | Canada:RFilming Locations:
Los Angeles, California, USAFun Stuff
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Dedicated to "Brothers and sisters who have had enough of the Man." moreFAQ
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I saw this movie in Boulder CO in 1971 in an audience that was half black and half white in a community in the mountains that was 99.4% white. Blacks in the audience obviously got the raucous humor only the blacks could get living in America...the white's didn't have a clue. As a Welfare Rights Organizer at the time i obviously identified with the black situation. This was the FIRST movie from the black point of view.
Von Peebles is to be commended for doing the impossible and i have used his example of forbearance and excellance for the past three decades. He had been in Europe for ten years prior to the film. He wanted to do the film. He didn't have the money. No one wanted to write it. He wrote it. Black actors of stature didn't want to be associated with it. He stars in it. He gets the financial backing. He gets an "X" rating because he would not have it submitted for a rating and because the only venue he could get was the "X" rated theatres. He still out grossed Easy Rider, which was the big history maker of low budget big return films.
Von Peebles was the first black man to tell it like it was at the time... and he blasted the black myths on and off the screen.