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Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song

Release Date: 1971

Cast: West Gale, Hubert Scales, Simon Chuckster, Rhetta Hughes, Melvin Van Peebles, Niva Rochelle, Nick Ferrari, John Amos

Categories: Movies, Indie, Action/Adventure, Action Thrillers, Action, Blaxploitation, Crime Fiction, Thriller

Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song is a 1971 American independent drama film, written, produced, scored, directed by, and starring Melvin Van Peebles, father of actor Mario Van Peebles (who was also in the movie). It tells the picaresque story of a poor African American man on his flight from the white authority. Van Peebles began to develop the film after being offered a three-picture contract for Columbia Pictures. No studio would finance the film, so Van Peebles funded the film himself, shooting it independently over a period of 19 days, performing all of his own stunts and appearing in... MORE

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