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.
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Cast
15 people
Melvin Van Peebles
Sweetback
Known for
The Shining
Terminal Velocity
Simon Chuckster
Beetle
No other roles listed
Mario Van Peebles
Young Sweetback
Known for
Ali
Jaws: The Revenge
John Dullaghan
Commissioner
Known for
Kalifornia
Battlestar Galactica
John Amos
Biker
Known for
Die Hard 2
Coming to America
Lavelle Roby
Known for
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
Rhetta Hughes
Old Girlfriend
Also in
Tenement
Don't Play Us Cheap
Norman Fields
Known for
Living in Oblivion
Joe Tornatore
Known for
The Champ
F.I.S.T.
Mikel Angel
Also in
The Black Six
Suburbia Confidential
William Kirschner
Also in
Infrasexum
The Harem Bunch
Vincent Barbi
Known for
The Blob
A Woman Under the Influence
Melvin Van Peebles Director · Robert Maxwell Cinematographer
Worldwide gross $15M · Budget $150K · United States release March 31, 1971
Box office
Budget
$150,000
Worldwide gross
$15,200,000
Gross vs. budget
101.3×
Production
Cinemation Industries
Production
Yeah
Production
United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · March 31, 1971
Theatrical
Germany
November 4, 1997 · TV
Japan
October 23, 1993 · Theatrical
Netherlands
March 22, 1973 · Theatrical
United Kingdom
November 17, 1980 · Premiere · BFI London Film Festival
Uruguay
February 22, 1993 · Premiere · Cinemateca Uruguaya
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