Baadasssss *LiMiTED* *XViD* - DVDRIP - DEiTY
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Release Date: 09/102/04 Source: RETAiL R1 DVD
Theater Date: 05/28/04 Runtime: 108 MiN 50 SEC
DVD Date: 09/14/04 Subs: French,Spanish,Portuguesse
Video Codec: XViD 1.0 Video Bitrate: ~752 kbp
Audio Codec: MP3 VBR 2Ch Audio Bitrate: 135kbps 48kHz
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 Resolution: 560x320
Frame Rate: 23.976 fps Genre: Drama
IMDB Rating: 6.9/10 Files: 696MB 50x15MB
IMDB Link: http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0367790/
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Melvin Van Peebles stunned the world for the first time, with
his debut feature, The Story of a Three Day Pass. Filmed in
France and selected as the French entry in the San Francisco
Film Festival, Melvin's film was awarded the top prize. Saying
it was controversial would be an understatement. In 1968 for a
black man to walk up to the podium and accept the top festival
award for a film he had to go abroad to make--now that's how
you make your mark. After his comedy, Watermelon Man, Melvin
was determined to push the Hollywood boundaries with the
groundbreaking, and even more controversial, Sweet Sweetback's
Baadasssss Song. Turned down by every major studio including
Columbia, where he had a three-picture deal, Melvin was forced
to basically self-finance. Risking everything he had Melvin
delivered to the world the first Black Ghetto hero on the big
screen--whether they were ready or not! More than 30 years
later, history is being fashioned again in the telling of this
very tale. Mario Van Peebles, Melvin's son, directs an honest
and revealing portrait of his pioneering father. Mario now
tells the story of the making of Melvin Van Peebles' landmark
1971 film, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, including
Melvin's struggles to raise money to fund the film under the
guise of creating a black porno film. Melvin had ducked
creditors, the unions and had to bail out his camera crew
after they were arrested because a white cop decided a bunch
of Negroes and hippies couldn't have come by that camera
equipment honestly. Despite death threats and temporarily
losing sight in one eye, Melvin somehow managed to whip into
shape a rag-tag, multi-racial crew and finish the film that
would give birth to birth of a new era which was about to
explode: Independent Black Cinema.
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Mario Van Peebles.....................Melvin Van Peebles
Joy Bryant.....................................Priscilla
T.K. Carter...................................Bill Cosby
Terry Crews........................................Big T
Ossie Davis......................................Grandad
David Alan Grier...........................Clyde Houston
Nia Long..........................................Sandra
Paul Rodriguez...............................Jose Garcia
Saul Rubinek.......................................Howie
Vincent Schiavelli.................................Jerry
Khleo Thomas.......................................Mario
Rainn Wilson.................................Bill Harris
Karimah Westbrook.................................Ginnie
Len Lesser.........................Manny & Mort Goldberg
Sally Struthers......................................Roz
Directed by............................Mario Van Peebles
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