Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
1971
action comedy film, thriller film, blaxploitation film, drama film
- Director
- Melvin Van Peebles
- Runtime
- 93 min
Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song is a 1971 American independent blaxploitation action thriller film written, co-produced, scored, edited, directed by, and starring Melvin Van Peebles. His son Mario Van Peebles also appears in a small role, playing the title character as a young boy. The film tells the picaresque story of a poor black man fleeing from the white police authorities.
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