Film historian and critic Michael Gingold on Def By Temptation

Reversible THE HORROR STAR cover art

Jeff Reddick (filmmaker) and others

74m / 1978 / Color / 1

George Bowers

Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song Edition Type:Standard Edition Film historian and critic MichaelSold Out OOP This listing is for the standard edition Blu ray DVD combo. The limited edition slipcover was limited to 2,000 units and is sold out. The two versions are identical, aside from the slipcover. One of the most iconic, notorious, and influential American films of the 1970s, Melvin Van Peebles' SWEET SWEETBACK'S BAADASSSSS SONG stars Van Peebles as Sweetback, a black orphan raised in a brothel and groomed into becoming a sex show performer.