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Title: Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971)
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| Melvin Van Peebles | ... | Sweetback | |
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Hubert Scales | ... | Mu-Mu |
| John Dullaghan | ... | Commissioner | |
| Simon Chuckster | ... | Beetle | |
| Mario Van Peebles | ... | Sweetback / Kid (as Mario Peebles) | |
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Max Van Peebles | ... | Sweetback / Young |
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Rhetta Hughes | ... | Old Girl Friend |
| John Amos | ... | Biker (as Johnny Amos) | |
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Megan Van Peebles | ... | Kid (as Megan Peebles) |
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Wesley Gale | ... | (as West Gale) |
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Ted Hayden | ||
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Sonja Dunson | ||
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Michael Augustus | ||
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Niva Ruschell | ||
Sweet Sweetback is a black orphan who, having grown up in a brothel, now works there as part of a sex show. When the police need a patsy for a murder in the black community, His employer gives him up to two white cops, whom he ends up killing. Suddenly the target of a massive manhunt, he decides to flee to Mexico. As he makes his way there, he is captured by, and escapes from, both the cops and a chapter of the Hell's Angels. Written by David Claydon <dc6212@bristol.ac.uk>
After reading some of the comments here, I wonder if we all saw the same movie. Nonstop sex and violence? Sweetback a radical? I don't think so. Sweetback is almost a nonentity who passively goes along with his environment -- ever notice how his hips never move while we has sex? He's hardly a part of the act and his so-called sexual prowess is a construct of the other person. He hardly speaks and is often spoken for, by Beetle the pimp, by the white cops. He snaps at long last and makes a statement against the whole crappy world around him. The transformation he makes is made while on the run, through the agony of always being on the run. I thought the cinematography and use of the choir chanting from afar was brilliant -- showing the world of his soul in painful transformation. Don't think blaxploitation, when you see this -- and see it you should -- but it is NOT a blaxploitation movie. It is mythology in the making.