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Budget. $150,000 [1] Box office. $15.2 million [1] Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song is a 1971 American independent blaxploitation action thriller film written, co-produced, scored, edited, directed by, and starring Melvin Van Peebles. His son Mario Van Peebles also appears in a small role, playing the title character as a young boy.
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Nov 28, 2019 · A Baad Asssss Nigger is Coming Back to Collect Some Dues’ With these provocative words, Melvin Van Peebles ended his third feature film, Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song. This somewhat tongue-in-cheek coda, equal parts political and aesthetic threat, became the defining moment for African American cinema during the 1970s.
Mar 22, 1973 · Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song: Directed by Melvin Van Peebles. With Melvin Van Peebles, Hubert Scales, John Dullaghan, Simon Chuckster. 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 Hells Angels.
The most controversial scene is the early flashback scene where a young Van Peebles (played by his own 13-yeard old son, Mario Van Peebles) is coerced into sex by a prostitute. To finish the post production of the film Van Peebles had to borrow $50,000 from Bill Cosby. In the end, Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song was made wholly ...
