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Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song

Release Date:March 31, 1971

Running Time:98 min

Genres:Drama, Action, Thriller, Crime

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Cast

Simon Chuckster Melvin Van Peebles Hubert Scales Mario Van Peebles John Dullaghan John Amos Lavelle Roby Rhetta Hughes Norman Fields Joe Tornatore Mikel Angel William Kirschner

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Synopsis

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.

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