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Name: Super Fly
Released: 1972-8-4
Cast: Ron O'Neal, Carl Lee, Sheila Frazier, Julius W. Harris, Charles McGregor

Super Fly

R
1h 36m
1972

93%

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Never a dude like this one! He's got a plan to stick it to The Man! Charismatic, big-time Harlem cocaine dealer Youngblood Priest (Ron O'Neal) drives expensive cars, keeps a downtown white woman, and plans one last big score to escape his life of violence. But when corrupt cops working for the Mob learn of his plan, they try to make Priest a partner rather than arrest him. Now, can Priest outwit the street, the mob and the cops to win his freedom?

Director:

Gordon Parks Jr.

Producer:

Sig Shore

Writer:

Phillip Fenty

Cast:

Ron O'Neal, Carl Lee, Sheila Frazier, Julius W. Harris, Charles McGregor

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

93%

Reviews

Call and Post (Cleveland)

Jimi Lawrence

[Superfly] deals with a segment of life as it really exists, despite the wishes of many who would rather suppress or overlook it.

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New Pittsburgh Courier

Larry G. Coleman

There is fine acting throughout the film. Ron O'Neal's performance is superior.

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Baltimore Afro-American

Samuel A. Hay

Ron O'Neal Is supported by a good but uneven cast. There is a great deal of overacting. Acting on film requires a subtlety that, give experience, these new faces will soon master. But Parks' first effort is almost actor-proof and is well worth a trip.

Among the early and most sacred films in the Blacksploitation cannon, 1972's Super Fly is a towering pillar in many circles.

It has a subdued psychological acuity that goes far beyond the grubby baseline of the normal exploitation film.

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