Sweet Sweetback's Baadassss Song
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Sweet Sweetback's Baadassss Song (1971, USA) is a Blaxploitation cult classic film directed by Melvin Van Peebles
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- Included in: Three Exploitation Cinema Classics
- Related Links: Baadasssss! | Book: What it Is, What It Was! | Blaxploitation: What It Is...What It Was
- Featured in: American Grindhouse | BaadAsssss Cinema | Melvin Van Peebles: Four Films (BluRay)
Main Details
- Released on March 31, 1971 (Detroit, Michigan)
- Color
- Running Time: 97 Min.
- Production Co: Yeah
- Distribution Co: Cinemation Industries (1971) (USA) (theatrical) | New World Pictures (1974) (USA) (theatrical) (re-release)
- Written, directed and edited by Melvin Van Peebles
- Starring Melvin Van Peebles, Simon Chuckster, Hubert Scales
- Produced by Jerry Gross, Melvin Van Peebles
- Original Music by Earth Wind & Fire, Melvin Van Peebles
- Cinematography by Robert Maxwell
Plot Summary
- After saving a Black Panther from some racist cops, a black male prostitute goes on the run from "the man" with the help of the ghetto community and some disillusioned Hell's Angels.
Also Known As
- How To Get The Man's Foot Outta Your Ass
Taglines
- The Film that THE MAN doesn't want you to see!
- Rated X by an all white jury
- Dedicated to all the Brothers and Sisters who have had enough of the Man
- Sweet Sweetback will never die a natural death.
- You bled my Momma--You bled my Poppa--But you won't bleed me.
