6.2 Score

1971 • 1h 38min • R • Action, Thriller, Crime, Drama

Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song

"The Film that THE MAN doesn't want you to see!"

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.

IMDb 5.5

RT 74%

MC 71

Director

Melvin Van Peebles

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Melvin Van Peebles

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Simon Chuckster

Beetle

Melvin Van Peebles

Sweetback

Hubert Scales

Mu-Mu

Mario Van Peebles

The Young Sweetback

John Dullaghan

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John Amos

Biker

Lavelle Roby

Rhetta Hughes

Old Girlfriend

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Melvin Van Peebles Sweetback

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Rhetta Hughes Old Girlfriend

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