Directed by:
Melvin Van PeeblesScreenplay:
Melvin Van PeeblesCinematography:
Robert MaxwellComposer:
Melvin Van PeeblesCast:
Melvin Van Peebles, Simon Chuckster, Hubert Scales, John Amos, Mario Van Peebles, Ed Rue, Vincent Barbi, Mikel Angel, Joe Tornatore, Lavelle Roby, Wesley GalePlots(1)
The film tells the story of Sweetback (Van Peebles), an apolitical black sex performer who becomes a reluctant picaresque hero when he kills the two white policemen who brutalized a young prisoner for racist reasons. On the run to Mexico, Sweetback encounters all manner of provocatively stereotypical characters, including a shower-capped ghetto thug who won't help him, a hypocritical Baptist preacher, and, of course, a host of women who can't get enough of his supercharged sexuality. (official distributor synopsis)
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This is definitely a film that is not for everyone, but it must be acknowledged that there are scenes in it that you will easily remember. Maybe right there at the beginning. However, Melvin Van Peebles also came up with interesting editing and continuity of scenes that just shows that this is not just controversy and spitting fire, but there is also filmmaking art in it.
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