Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song

"The Film that THE MAN doesn't want you to see!"

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.

Director: Melvin Van Peebles

Cast

Simon Chuckster

Beetle

Melvin Van Peebles

Sweetback

Mario Van Peebles

The Young Sweetback

John Dullaghan

Commissioner

John Amos

Biker

Lavelle Roby

Rhetta Hughes

Old Girlfriend

Norman Fields