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 V
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When filming the car fire scene, an actual fire truck showed up on location and was included in the final cut of the film. Screenshot from the trailer.
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Melvin Van Peebles was an American actor, filmmaker, writer, and composer. His feature film debut, The Story of a Three-Day Pass, was based on his own French-language novel La Permission and was shot
Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
…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…
Van Peebles c. 1970
Van Peebles with some of his home cooking, a "hobo stew"
Van Peebles in front of his artwork, A Ghetto Mother's Prayer, in 2017