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starring: John Amos, Michael Augustus, Simon Chuckster, Steve Cole, John Dullaghan
Audience Rating: X (Mature Audiences Only)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786304195390
Format: Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
ISBN: 6304195397
Label: Cinemation Industries
Manufacturer: Cinemation Industries
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Cinemation Industries
Release Date: February 05, 2002
Running Time: 97 minutes
Sales Rank: 34813
Studio: Cinemation Industries
Theatrical Release Date: 1971
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Raw, jagged, and explosively angry, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song is a landmark in American independent cinema. Melvin Van Peebles directed, wrote, produced, edited, scored, and stars as Sweetback, a passive bouncer raised in a brothel. Shot guerrilla style on a starvation budget on the streets of Los Angeles, it's a violent tale of Sweetback's journey from passive acceptance to political awareness and active defiance. He becomes the target of a manhunt when he kills two cops who beat up a young black activist, and he bounces from hideout to hideout before running for the border, all the while getting more booty than Shaft and Superfly put together. The movie was so inflammatory by conservative industry standards that it was 'Rated X by an All White Jury,' which the ads proudly touted. The unusual mix of agitprop and exploitation is directed in a jagged style that recalls Godard and set to a funky score performed by Earth, Wind & Fire, which Van Peebles intercuts with chanting Greek chorus-like slogans. Released independently, it was a huge hit and effectively spawned the blaxploitation genre, but none of the films that followed ever recaptured the energy, the anger, and the social politics of this breakthrough in independent cinema. --Sean Axmaker
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Umm...what can I say?
Ahh..., I don't know why this movie was ever made. It perpetuates the whole stereotype of "The Man," yet offers no solution or remedy. I applaude Mr. Melvin Van Peebles right to free speech and expression, but that's about it.
Rating: - Well.....
I think the first scene could have been left out; by today's legal standards, someone would go to jail in a heartbeat. By the 1995 law, this would be a felonious offense. It should be cut completely out of the movie as a consequence.
However, the rest of the themes in the movie were reflective of their times, albeit offensive to some communities. It was a landmark film that pushed the envelope.
I would just say.....clip the first scene completely and leave the rest intact. ... Read More
Rating: - A Sign of the 70's?
Let's face it, if it weren't for the opening sequence of the film where the director, Melvin Peebles, showed his 12 year old son having sex with an adult woman, this movie probably wouldn't have received any publicity.
The movie follows Sweetback's life from that first encounter through his adult life. All the while Sweetback (adult character played by the director) is running from the police and having sex in front of other people in the film.
I didn't find this film overly ... Read More
Rating: - Good movie
One of the better 1970s action movies. Lots of nudity and bad language. Overall, I liked it but there could of been more plot development. Random things like the biker scenes happened during the film.
Rating:  - And so it begins.....
This movie might be unreal for some but blaxploitation was born due to the help of "the Black Community" who were all tired of the "Man" holding them down.I sat down to watch "Sweet Sweetback" for the first time last night and was almost lost for a moment. The opening sequence, bordering on child pornography, would never slip by the protestors of today. Yet, in 1971, this movie made its debut in (according to the box) two theatres and endured a torrent of negative reviews before going on to gross $10,000,000. ... Read More
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