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Three Pickup Men for Herrick 1957 Melvin van Peebles first short is a deliberately aimless slice of life, mainly consisting of several men walking the streets of an American city Most interesting aspect is the disjointed, atonal harmonica score improvised by van Peebles himself A small slice of this

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Cinq cent balles 1963 A boy attempts to retrieve a 500 franc note from a storm drain

Dont Play Us Cheap 1972 Film version of Melvin Van Peebles Broadway musical A pair of devil bats take human form and crash a Harlem house party in an attempt to break it up But somehow, their attempts to ruin the party fail

La permission (1967) A tale of innocence abroad, with racial overtones. Turner is a Black American, stationed at an air base in France. His captain thinks Turner's a good Negro, obedient, cheerful, and frightened, so he gives him a promotion and a three-day pass. On the first night, at a club, he me

Calm at Sunset (1996) The 18 years old James Pfeiffer quits college and decides to become a fisherman like his father. Margaret and Russell are very upset with their son's decision. They had a lot of hopes for him, finishing law school and, like his older brother Joseph, make a decent living on shor

Sweet Sweetbacks Baadasssss Song (1971) Melvin Van Peebles wrote, directed, produced, edited, composed and starred in this powerful and inflammatory attack on White America. After the body of a black man is discovered, Sweetback helps two white 'acquaintances' in the police force to look good by agr

Gang in Blue (1996) Gang In Blue is based on the real life investigations of several US police forces for racism and corruption. This production focuses on one of these police forces where Michael Rhoades is a new recruit who discovers much to his horror, a band of little Hitlers known as the 'Phant

Watermelon Man (1970) Jeff Gerber, an insurance agent, lives in a typical suburban neighborhood. He is also both racist and a fitness freak. But Jeff's bigoted world of taunting and harassing black people on and off the job is turned upside down when his skin inexplicably turns dark overnight. As Je