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Carl Kress. Music editor. Ralph Hall. Melvin Van Peebles’s only foray into Hollywood filmmaking, Watermelon Man is one of the most audacious, radically conceived works to be financed by a major American studio in the 1970s. Comedian Godfrey Cambridge delivers a virtuoso performance (initially in whiteface) as Jeff Gerber, a loudmouthed ...
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May 27, 1970 · Watermelon Man: Directed by Melvin Van Peebles. With Godfrey Cambridge, Estelle Parsons, Howard Caine, D'Urville Martin. Jeff Gerber, a racist white man, wakes up one morning to discover that he has become black.
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- Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
- Melvin Van Peebles
- 1970-05-27
Dec 31, 2014 · Watermelon Man (1970) Melvin Van Peebles’s only foray into Hollywood filmmaking, Watermelon Man is one of the most audacious, radically conceived works to be financed by a major American studio in the 1970s. Comedian Godfrey Cambridge delivers a virtuoso performance (initially in whiteface) as Jeff Gerber, a loudmouthed, bigoted white ...
Sep 28, 2021 · M elvin Van Peebles’s blistering satire Watermelon Man (1970)—the only film that he made for a Hollywood studio—has long lived in the shadows of his other work, especially the film that immediately followed it, the popular and controversial 1971 Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song. The story of one man’s evolution from apolitical sex ...
Watermelon Man is a 1970 American comedy film directed by Melvin Van Peebles and starring Godfrey Cambridge, Estelle Parsons, Howard Caine, D'Urville Martin, Kay Kimberley, Mantan Moreland, and Erin Moran. Written by Herman Raucher, it tells the story of an extremely bigoted 1960s-era white insurance salesman named Jeff Gerber, who wakes up one ...
Melvin Van Peebles’s only foray into Hollywood filmmaking, Watermelon Man is one of the most audacious, radically conceived works to be financed by a major American studio in the 1970s. Comedian Godfrey Cambridge delivers a virtuoso performance (initially in whiteface) as Jeff Gerber, a loudmouthed, bigoted white insurance salesman whose ...
