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Super Fly

  • 19721972
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  • 1h 31m
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Ron O'Neal in Super Fly (1972)
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The daily routine of cocaine dealer Priest who wants to score one more super deal and retire.The daily routine of cocaine dealer Priest who wants to score one more super deal and retire.The daily routine of cocaine dealer Priest who wants to score one more super deal and retire.
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    • Gordon Parks Jr.
    • Phillip Fenty(screenplay by)
  • Stars
    • Ron O'Neal
    • Carl Lee
    • Sheila Frazier
    • Gordon Parks Jr.
    • Phillip Fenty(screenplay by)
  • Stars
    • Ron O'Neal
    • Carl Lee
    • Sheila Frazier
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    • 88User reviews
    • 66Critic reviews
    • 67Metascore
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    Ron O'Neal
    Ron O'Neal
    • Priest
    Carl Lee
    • Eddie
    Sheila Frazier
    Sheila Frazier
    • Georgia
    • (as Shiela Frazier)
    Julius Harris
    Julius Harris
    • Scatter
    • (as Julius W. Harris)
    Charles McGregor
    • Fat Freddie
    • (as Charles MacGregor)
    Nate Adams
    • Dealer
    Polly Niles
    • Cynthia
    Yvonne Delaine
    • Mrs. Freddie
    Henry Shapiro
    • Robbery Victim
    K.C.
    • Pimp
    James G. Richardson
    • Junkie
    • (as Jim Richardson)
    Make Bray
    • Junkie
    Al Kiggins
    • Police
    Bob Bonds
    • Police
    Fred Ottaviano
    Fred Ottaviano
    • Police
    • (as Fred Rolaf)
    Alex Stevens
    Alex Stevens
    • Police
    Harry Manson
    • Police
    Floyd Levine
    Floyd Levine
    • Police
      • Gordon Parks Jr.
      • Phillip Fenty(screenplay by)
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    • Trivia
      The script was only 45 pages long, which explains why there are so many shots of people walking, driving, etc.
    • Goofs
      The number of men attacking Priest in the final fight scene varies from shot to shot, though, from the angles used, there should be a consistent number.
    • Quotes

      Youngblood Priest: I'm gettin' out, Eddie.

      Eddie: Gettin' outta what?

      Youngblood Priest: The cocaine business.

      Eddie: Oh, sweet. Sh*t. Say, those junkies must have knocked a hole in your head. You're gonna give all this up? 8-Track Stereo, color T.V. in every room, and can snort a half a piece of dope everyday? That's the American Dream, nigga! Well, ain't it? Ain't it?

    • Connections
      Featured in Without Walls: Kiss My Baad Assss Ice-T's Guide to Blaxploitation (1994)
    • Soundtracks
      Little Child Runnin' Wild
      Written by Curtis Mayfield

      Performed by Curtis Mayfield

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    This was Director Gordon Parks'Jr. follow-up to one of the most successful and also one of the top five highest grossing pictures of 1971,the straight in-your face blaxploitation crime-drama,"Shaft",starring Richard Roundtree. This time around,he goes for the exploitation genre a bit further and this time it comes up a bona fide winner. Say what you want about this film,but when it first came out in the summer of 1972,the film became one of the top ten highest grossing pictures of that year. SUPER FLY was a major classic that was a huge success,and established Gordon Parks to make a second film for Warner Bors. Pictures,because he made history three years earlier as one of the first African-Americans to get financing for his first feature for the Warner Bors. studio,the 1969 autobiographical drama "The Learning Tree". However,SUPER FLY made a fortune for Warner Bors.,since the studio was about to jump on board the blaxploitation genre,and opened the doors for several movies to be produced for the studio,which including the following year the comedies,"Uptown Saturday Night",and the blaxploitation crime-dramas,"Cleopatra Jones",the sequel,"Casino Of Gold","Black Sampson","Black Cobra",and the classic martial-arts adventure/blaxploitation flick "Enter The Dragon". SUPER FLY was a slick urban romp had an appeal to its adult audiences,but because of the content of the film and its usage of drug abuse and drug substance together with the over count of its violent content,made it one of the most controversial movie ever made,and even for the year 1972,it was describe by some to be very intense with its subject matter and explicit language and some nudity. This was in fact shot on an low-budget theme that was released at the beginning of the blaxploitation/Black Cinema experience and it came out at a time when the Black Cinema movement exploded after the huge success of SHAFT and SWEET SWEETBACK. The main character here is Priest(played with absolute perfection by Ron O'Neal),who wants out of the drug business,but wants to make one last score before he calls it quits. Along the way,he is hassled by the cops,former associates and not to mention those who want to settle a score with him,but in all he gets back at them towards the end,but here the film delivers a powerful message here:the emptiness of the American dream. Priest may want to be out of the business,not because he hates them,but dealing with the endless hassle to sell anything illegal,and from that he just trying to make the best of what he has here,not just by selling but by any means necessary to survive. This is one hard edged gritty crime drama that tells it like it is with no holds-barred punches and straight to the point. A real honest look at the effect and ultimate destruction of drugs and the life of the drug dealer up close and personal. With an supporting cast that includes Shelia Frazier as Priest's girlfriend,Georgia,along with Julius Harris, the late Carl Lee,and Charles McGregor,with a brilliant screenplay by Phillip Fenty and music by Curtis Mayfield,whose brilliant soundtrack to this film was Grammy Nominated in 1972 for Best Soundtrack Album and Best R&B Album of that year...whose songs on this soundtrack for this film are standard classics these days,but as for the movie itself,its a piece of Black Cinema not to be missed. Rating:**** out of *****
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      • August 4, 1972 (United States)
      • United States
      • English
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      • Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
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      • Sig Shore Productions
      • Superfly
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