Super fly / Warner Bros. Pictures ; the Sig Shore Production ; Super Fly Ltd. ; produced by Sig Shore ; written by Phillip Fenty ; directed by Gordon Parks, Jr.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1972. Special features: commentary by USC School of Cinema and Television professor Todd Boyd; a new documentary, "One last deal: a retrospective", including interviews with cast and producers; Ron O'Neal on "The making of Super fly"; Curtis Mayfield on Super fly; and "Behind the threads," with costume designer Nate Adams; theatrical trailer. Ron O'Neal, Carl Lee, Sheila Frazier, Julius Harris, Charles MacGregor, Nate Adams, Polly Niles, Jim Richardson.
Summary:
Priest is a cocaine dealer who is just smart enough to know that there's no real future in dealing coke, and makes a proposal to his partner Eddie that would leave them with a million dollar profit each. But Scatter, the dealer who set Priest up in the cocaine trade, is both unwilling and unable to sell them that much product. As Priest looks for a new source for his big score, one of his underlings, Fat Freddie, is picked up by the police. Freddie tells the cops about Priest's underground empire. Priest is confronted by corrupt cops who want to become his partner.
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