Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
Mar 31 1971
•2h 38m
•Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
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.
Cast
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Simon Chuckster
Beetle
Melvin Van Peebles
Sweetback
Hubert Scales
Mu-Mu
Mario Van Peebles
The Young Sweetback
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