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Features: DVD
Ron O'Neal in the smart, streetwise box office success about a pusher who tries to make one last killer deal before kicking the business. Featuring a hit Curtis Mayfield score. Year: 1972 Director: Gordon Parks, Jr.
Editor's Note
SUPERFLY, along with COFFY and SHAFT, completes Blaxploitations's best known|triumvirate. One of the highest-grossing pictures of 1972, SUPERFLY became an instant classic, and established director Gordon Parks firmly in Warner Brothers' sights to make THREE THE HARD WAY in 1974. Parks was one of the first African American directors to get financing from a major Hollywood studio to make the 1969 film THE LEARNING TREE. Super Fly is a cocaine dealer who begins to realize that his life will soon end with either prison or his death. He decides to build an escape from the life by making his biggest deal yet, converting the coke to cash and running off to start a new life. The problem is that the Mob does not have a retirement plan and will give him a choice of staying and selling for them or dying if they find out his intentions. With a terrific score by Curtis Mayfield and a star wearing threads to match, SUPERFLY is chock full of the sass, flash, and action Blaxploitation is known for.
Plot Summary
Priest is a Harlem cocaine dealer who wants to get out of the drug business. But in order to do so, he must eliminate the syndicate kingpins keeping him down.
| Features | Region 1 | | Snap Case | | Widescreen - 1.85 | | Audio:
| Closed Captioned - English | | Mono - English, French | | Subtitles - English, Spanish, French | | Additional Release Material:
| Alternate Audio Tracks: Curtis Mayfield on SUPERFLY | | Audio Commentary: Dr. Todd Boyd - USC Professor of Cinema | | Documentary: ONE LAST DEAL: A RETROSPECTIVE | | Trailers: Original Theatrical Trailer | | Featurette:
| 1. RON O'NEAL ON THE MAKING OF SUPERFLY | | 2. BEHIND THE THREADS |
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Release Information
|  | Studio: Warner |
| Release Date: 4/19/2005 |
| Running Time: 93 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1972 | | Catalog ID: 28888 | | UPC: 00085392888825 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English, French Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: English, French, Spanish | | Video: Color |
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| | Professional Reviews | Uncut
3 stars out of 5 -- "[With a] glorious, eternal soundtrack album..." 05/01/2006 p.152 |
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