Super Fly

19721972
RR
1h 31min

Ron O'Neal in Super Fly (1972)

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Action Crime Drama

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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Awards
- 1 nomination

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Super Fly is a cocaine dealer who begins to realize that his life will soon end with either prison or his death. He decides to build an escape from the life by making his biggest deal yet, converting the coke to cash and running off to start a new life. The problem is that the Mob does not have a retirement plan and will give him a choice of staying and selling for them or dying if they find out his intentions. —John Vogel <jvogel@dgs. dgsys.com>

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Taglines
- Never a dude like this one! He's got a plan to stick it to The Man!
Genres
Certificate
- R
Parents guide

Trivia
The script was only 45 pages long, which explains why there are so many shots of people walking, driving, etc.

Goofs
The camera crew is reflected in panels of Priest's car during the opening shots.

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

Top review

Tough urban crime story well worth watching

One of the grittiest of the so-called blaxploitation films of the 1970s, Gordon Parks Jr's Superfly can really catch audiences off guard and sober them up. Ron O'Neal's brooding performance as retiring drug dealer Youngblood Priest is excellent, as is the consistently evident tension between the races (expertly captured by Parks). I recently had the opportunity to see Superfly at a film festival, and Curtis Mayfield's on-screen appearance in a nightclub received a warm round of applause from the packed theater. Mayfield really did deliver one of the greatest soundtracks in film history for Superfly. "Pusherman," "Freddie's Dead," the title song and many others are just incredible.

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Mar 18, 1999

Release date
- August 4, 1972 (United States)
Country of origin
- United States
Language
- English
Also known as
- Superfly
Filming locations
- Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Production companies
- Sig Shore Productions
- Superfly
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Budget
- $58,000 (estimated)

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Runtime
- 1h 31min
Color
- Color
Sound mix
- Mono
Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1

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