Watch trailer for Jazz Dispensary presents: Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song
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Jazz Dispensary presents: Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song
Director: Melvin Van Peebles Run Time: 97 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1971
Starring: Simon Chuckster, Melvin Van Peebles, Hubert Scales, Mario Van Peebles, John Dullaghan
Melvin Van Peebles is an icon, and this is a defining work of independent rebel cinema. Sweet Sweetback goes on the run from dirty, racist cops. The tagline is “Rated X by an all-white jury”. Sold.