Title | : | Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song |
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Release | : | 1971 |
Rating | : | 5.5 |
Language | : | English |
Runtime | : | 97 |
Genre | : | Action,Crime,Drama,Thriller |
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.
Melvin Van Peebles