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  • Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
  • Opened April 23, 1971 | Runtime:1 hr. 37 min.
  • R
  • Sweet Sweetback (Melvin Van Peebles) is a black orphan who, having grown up in a brothel, now works there as part of a sex show. When the police need a patsy for a murder in the black community, Sweetback's employer gives him up to two white cops, Read More
  • Cast: Melvin Van Peebles, Simon Chuckster, Hubert Scales, John Dullaghan, West Gale
  • Director: Melvin Van Peebles
  • Genres: Action Thriller, Psychological Drama, Blaxploitation, Action, Urban Drama

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