Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971)

Action
Crime
Drama
Thriller

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.

Cast

Beetle
Simon Chuckster
Sweetback
Melvin Van Peebles
M Mikel Angel
William Kirschner
Vincent Barbi
C Chesley Noone
Actor
C Curt Matson
(as West Gale)
Wesley Gale
Mu-Mu
Hubert Scales
The Young Sweetback
Mario Van Peebles
Commissioner
John Dullaghan
Biker
John Amos
Lavelle Roby
Old Girlfriend
Rhetta Hughes
Norman Fields
Joe Tornatore

Crew

Producer
J Jerry Gross
Director of Photography
R Robert Maxwell
Director
Melvin Van Peebles
Producer
Melvin Van Peebles
Screenplay
Melvin Van Peebles
Editor
Melvin Van Peebles
Makeup Supervisor
N Nora Maxwell
Production Manager
C Clyde Houston
Assistant Director
C Clyde Houston
Second Unit Director
J Jose Garcia
Sound Editor
L Luke Wolfram
Sound Editor
J John H. Newman
Sound
C Clark Will
Special Effects
C Cliff Wenger
Camera Operator
J Jose Garcia
Camera Operator
R Robert Maxwell
Assistant Editor
J Jeremy Hoenack
Orchestrator
Maurice White
Orchestrator
Philip Bailey
Orchestrator
Verdine White
Production Assistant
P Priscilla Watts
Production Assistant
W Winfred Tennison
Production Assistant
S Skip Karnas
Production Assistant
C Chic Borland
Original Music Composer
Melvin Van Peebles