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Super Fly is a american film of genre Drama directed by Gordon Parks released in USA on 4 august 1972 with Ron O'Neal
Super Fly (1972)
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Add to a movie listSuper Fly is a 1972 blaxploitation, crime drama film directed by Gordon Parks, Jr., starring Ron O'Neal as Youngblood Priest, an African American cocaine dealer who is trying to quit the underworld drug business.
This film is probably best known for its soundtrack, written and produced by soul singer Curtis Mayfield. Super Fly is one of the few films ever to have been outgrossed by its soundtrack.
Leading man O'Neal reprised his role as Youngblood Priest and directed a sequel to the film that was released a year later in 1973, Super Fly T.N.T. Super Fly producer Sig Shore directed a second sequel in 1990, The Return of Superfly.
Synopsis
Priest (Ron O'Neal) is an up-and-coming cocaine dealer in New York City. On his way to a meeting point in Harlem early one morning he is mugged by two junkies. Priest beats one up and gives chase to the other, beating him until he gets the money back. Afterwards, Fat Freddie and Nate Adams, Priest's main dealers, turn up at his apartment to make their payments.Actors
Ron O'Neal
(Priest)
Sheila Frazier
(Georgia (as Shiela Frazier))
Carl Lee
(Eddie)
Julius Harris
(Scatter)
Charles McGregor
(Fat Freddie)
John Williams
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