Melvin Van Peebles
Sweetback
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Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller
Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song.
YOU BLED MY MOMMA. YOU BLED MY POPPA. BUT YOU WONT BLEED ME.
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.
Directed by Melvin Van Peebles
THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE STORY
Cast.
Simon Chuckster
Beetle
Mario Van Peebles
Young Sweetback
John Dullaghan
Commissioner
John Amos
Biker
Lavelle Roby
Rhetta Hughes
Old Girlfriend
Norman Fields
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