Super Fly
“Never a dude like this one! He's got a plan to stick it to The Man!”
Priest, a New York City drug kingpin, devises a scheme to get out of the business and retire with a big payday, but his plans are complicated when a street dealer rats him out to the police.
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Part of Super Fly Trilogy
3 films
Cast
36 people
Ron O'Neal
Priest
Known for
The Final Countdown
Red Dawn
Carl Lee
Eddie
Also in
The Cool World
The Connection
Sheila Frazier
Georgia
Known for
California Suite
Charles McGregor
Fat Freddie
Known for
Blazing Saddles
Bad
Julius Harris
Scatter
Known for
Live and Let Die
King Kong
Polly Niles
Cynthia
No other roles listed
Nate Adams
Dealer
Also in
Straight Eye: The Movie
Tough As Hell
Yvonne Delaine
Mrs. Freddie
No other roles listed
Henry Shapiro
Robbery Victim
No other roles listed
K.C.
Pimp
Also in
That's the Way of the World
James G. Richardson
Junkie
Known for
Meteor
Make Bray
Junkie
Gordon Parks Jr. Director · Phillip Fenty Writer Curtis Mayfield Composer
Worldwide gross $30M · Budget $500K · United States release August 4, 1972
Box office
Budget
$500,000
Worldwide gross
$30,000,000
Gross vs. budget
60.0×
Production
Superfly Ltd.
Production
Sig Shore Productions
Production
Warner Bros. Pictures
Production · Studio
United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · August 4, 1972
Theatrical
France
March 14, 1973 · Theatrical
Germany
March 29, 1973 · Theatrical
Ireland
June 1, 1973 · Theatrical
Japan
February 10, 1973 · Theatrical
United Kingdom
March 4, 1973 · Theatrical
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