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Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song

Country: USA, Language: English, 97 mins

  • Director: Melvin Van Peebles
  • Writer: Melvin Van Peebles
  • Producer: Jerry Gross; Melvin Van Peebles

CGiii Comment

Considered to be the first blaxploitation film...whatever it is, apart from being racist, it is criminal.

Melvin Van Peebles should have been arrested, tried and convicted of child abuse...his young son appears...naked and simulating sex with an older woman. UNACCEPTABLE.

As a parent - you are a disgrace.

As a filmmaker - you are a repellent waste of space.


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The(ir) Blurb...

Melvin Van Peebles wrote, directed, produced, edited, composed and starred in this powerful and inflammatory attack on White America. After the body of a black man is discovered, Sweetback helps two white 'acquaintances' in the police force to look good by agreeing to go with them to the station as a suspect. But he is forced to go on the run after brutally attacking the two policemen when they arrest and beat up a young black man.

Cast & Characters

Simon Chuckster as Beetle;
Melvin Van Peebles as Sweetback;
Hubert Scales as Mu-Mu;
John Dullaghan as Commissioner;
West Gale;
Niva Rochelle;
Rhetta Hughes as Old Girl Friend;
Nick Ferrari;
Ed Rue;
John Amos as Biker