Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song

Name: Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
Director: Melvin Van Peebles
Genre: Action, Drama, Crime, Thriller
Released: 1971-03-31
Duration: 5880000 s
Rating: 7.3
Cast: Simon Chuckster, Melvin Van Peebles, Mario Van Peebles

Directed by Melvin Van Peebles

NC-17

1971 1h 38m[Action](/on-demand/category/action), [Drama](/on-demand/category/drama)

5.573%45%5.2

Sweet Sweetback 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, His employer gives him up to two white cops, whom he ends up killing. Suddenly the target of a massive manhunt, he decides to flee to Mexico. As he makes his way there, he is captured by, and escapes from, both the cops and a chapter of the Hell's Angels.

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Cast of Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song

Simon ChucksterBeetle
Melvin Van PeeblesSweetback / Director / Screenplay / Producer / Editor / Original Music Composer
Mario Van PeeblesThe Young Sweetback
John DullaghanCommissioner
John AmosBiker
Lavelle Roby
Rhetta HughesOld Girlfriend
Norman Fields
Joe Tornatore
Mikel Angel
William Kirschner
Vincent Barbi
Chesley Noone
Curt MatsonActor
Wesley Gale(as West Gale)
Jerry GrossProducer
Robert MaxwellDirector Of Photography
Nora MaxwellMakeup Supervisor
Jose GarciaSecond Unit Director
Clyde HoustonAssistant Director / Production Manager