Film
Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
1971 · 1h 38m · Action · Crime · Drama
YOU BLED MY MOMMA. YOU BLED MY POPPA. BUT YOU WONT BLEED ME.
- IMDb
- 5.5
- Rotten Tomatoes
- 72%
- Metacritic
- 71
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Overview
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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Cast
Melvin Van Peebles
Sweetback
Simon Chuckster
Beetle
Mario Van Peebles
Young Sweetback
John Dullaghan
Commissioner
John Amos
Biker
Lavelle Roby
Rhetta Hughes
Old Girlfriend
Norman Fields
Joe Tornatore
Mikel Angel
William Kirschner
Vincent Barbi
Chesley Noone
Curt Matson
Actor
Wesley Gale
(as West Gale)
Crew
- Melvin Van PeeblesEditor · Producer · Director · Screenplay · Original Music Composer
- Jerry GrossProducer
- Robert MaxwellDirector of Photography
Media
Details
- Release date
- March 31, 1971
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Runtime
- 1h 38m
- Rated
- NC-17
- Budget
- $150,000
- Revenue
- $15,200,000
- Genres
- Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
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