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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.
- Melvin Van Peebles
- Bob Maxwell
- Melvin Van Peebles
- Melvin Van Peebles
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.
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- Melvin Van Peebles
- R
- Action, Crime, Drama
Mar 15, 2021 · Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song at 50: a radical moment for black cinema. Melvin Van Peebles’s landmark movie opened the door not only for black film-making but for independent movies in...
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- Steve Rose
Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song is the soundtrack to Melvin Van Peebles ' 1971 feature film of the same name. The soundtrack was performed by then-unknown Earth, Wind & Fire and released in 1971 on Stax Records.
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- June 1971
- 1971
Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song is political in many ways, most notably in its formal experimentation and its main through line of a black man killing two white LA police officers and then forced into a hunter-chased plot. Sweetback’s beating of the two cops is not a planned attack or a retaliation, but an act to defend the young black ...
Apr 27, 2021 · Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song is a significant artistic, political and sexual statement, which is still revolutionary in the era of social justice warriors.
