Melvin Van Peebles
Sweetback / Director / Screenplay / Producer / Editor / Original Music Composer
Sweet Sweetback is a black orphan who, having grown up in a brothel, now works there as part of a sex show. When the police need a patsy for a murder in the black community, His employer gives him up to two white cops, whom he ends up killing. Suddenly the target of a massive manhunt, he decides to flee to Mexico. As he makes his way there, he is captured by, and escapes from, both the cops and a chapter of the Hell's Angels.
Sweetback / Director / Screenplay / Producer / Editor / Original Music Composer
Beetle
Young Sweetback
Commissioner
Biker
Old Girlfriend
Actor
(as West Gale)
Makeup Supervisor
Assistant Director / Production Manager
Second Unit Director
Producer
Director Of Photography
Director
