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Sweet sweetback's baad asssss song /

Contributor(s): Material type: Film

FilmPublisher number: 10065910XE XX 1064DVD | Xenon PicturesPublication details: Santa Monica, CA : Xenon Pictures, 2002.Edition: 30th anniversary special editionDescription: 1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type:

two-dimensional moving image

Media type:

video

Carrier type:

videodisc

ISBN:

1578297508
9781578297504

Other title:

Title on container: Sweet sweetback's baadasssss song
Sweet sweetback's badass song

Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:

791.4372 22

LOC classification:

PN1997 .S9767 2002

NLM classification:

XE XX 1064

Online resources:

Production credits:

Writer, composer, producer, director and editor, Melvin van Peebles ; Director of photography, Bob Maxwell ; cinematographers, Bob Maxwell, Jose Garcia ; sound, Clark Will ; music performed by Earth, Wind and Fire.

Cast: Melvin van Peebles, Simon Chuckster, Hubert Scales, Niva Rochelle, Rhetta Hughes, John Dullaghan, West Gale, Nick Ferrari, Ed Rue, Johnny Amos, Lavelle Roby, Ted Hayden, Mario van Peebles."Starring the Black Community and Brer Soul."Summary: A young hustler's aimless pleasure-seeking turns to radicalism after witnessing the beating of a Black revolutionary by two white cops. Sweetback, driven to a state of blind rage, take brutal revenge on the caps, forcing him into a desperate life on the run. Despite a humble opening at only two theaters followed by a torrent of negative reviews, Sweetback mushroomed to $10,000,000 at the box office, landing it on Daily Variety's list of top-grossing independent films. It has also been widely credited as the film that kicked off the so-called "Blaxploitation" film movement.Summary: "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."--IMDB.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Video Recording	Carleton University, AVRC	SP456 - Collections Room	DVD-02330 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		16050185042

Videodisc release of the 1971 motion picture.

"Original uncut version"--Container.

Full screen.

Special features include : "making of" film by Melvin Van Peebles : "The Real deal: what it was [strikethrough] ... is" (2002) ; filmography.

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