Other author/creator | Van Peebles, Melvin, 1932-2021 |
Other author/creator | Chuckster, Simon. |
Other author/creator | Scales, Hubert. |
Other author/creator | Rochelle, Niva. |
Other author/creator | Hughes, Rheta. |
Other author/creator | Brer Soul. |
Other author/creator | Maxwell, Bob. |
Other author/creator | Garcia, José. |
Other author/creator | Yeah Productions (Firm) |
Other author/creator | Xenon Pictures. |
Other author/creator | Earth, Wind & Fire (Musical group) |
Portion of title |
Sweet sweetback's baad asssss song |
Variant title |
Sweet sweetback's badass song |
Incomplete content |
Special features include : "making of" film by Melvin Van Peebles : "The Real deal: what it was [strikethrough]...is" (2002) ; filmography. |
Abstract |
A young hustler's aimless pleasure-seeking turns to radicalism after witnessing the beating of a Black revolutionary by two white cops. |
General note | Videodisc release of the 1971 motion picture. |
General note | Container : Original uncut version. |
Credits | Writer, composer, producer, director and editor, Melvin van Peebles ; Director of photography, Bob Maxwell ; cinematographers, Bob Maxwell, Jose Garcia ; sound, Clark Will ; music performed by Earth, Wind and Fire. |
Cast |
Melvin van Peebles, Simon Chuckster, Hubert Scales, Niva Rochelle, Rhetta Hughes. |
Performer |
"Starring the Black Community and Brer Soul" |
Spec. audience char. |
Not rated. |
Technical details | DVD. |
Genre/form | Feature films. |
Genre/form | Police films. |
ISBN | 1578297508 |
ISBN | 9781578297504 |
UPC |
000799106426 |