Abar, the First Black Superman (1977) on Netflix
Dr. Kenneth Kincade moves his family into a bigoted neighborhood, their third attempt to live in peace. The mayor wants them out, but Kincade's federal grant keeps him from acting openly.
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Plot summary
Dr. Kenneth "Ken" Kincade moves his wife and their children, Tommie and Debbie, into a bigoted neighborhood. Neighbors Mabel Otell and Blanche Jacobson had been told a successful doctor was moving in, and Mabel is distraught when the new family turns out to be Black. The mayor wants the Kincades out but cannot act openly because Dr. Kincade holds a federally funded grant, so the board is advised to buy the house at double its value. Two councilmen offer a large sum; Kincade refuses, since this is the family's third attempt to live in peace.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Abar, the First Black Superman (1977)
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- The film was shot in the Baldwin Hills and Watts neighborhoods of Los Angeles without permits. Actual motorcycle gang members hired to play a black motorcycle gang surrounded the cars of white police officers who had been called in to shut down the shoot, and the officers stayed in their cars.
- Abar, the First Black Superman was the brainchild of James Smalley, a black pimp from Louisiana, and Frank Packard, a white actor and screenwriter, and was filmed partly in a working whorehouse. Smalley ran out of money before the film was completed and sold it to the owner of a film processing lab to settle his unpaid bills.
