Super Fly (1972) on Netflix
R19721h 31mActionCrimeDramaThriller
Youngblood Priest deals cocaine in Harlem and wants out of the business. He and his partner Eddie plan to buy thirty kilos and sell them for a million dollars, enough to retire.
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Plot summary
Priest lives well on the money his cocaine trade brings him in Harlem, but he wants to go straight. With his partner Eddie he works out the way out: the $300,000 they have saved buys thirty kilos of good cocaine, which their family of dealers can turn into $1,000,000 within four months. Eddie argues that crime is the only life left to them by The Man. For the drugs they go to Scatter, the retired dealer who first brought Priest into the business, who refuses until Priest talks him around. Freddie, one of Priest's dealers, owes money, and Priest sends him to rob a competitor to settle the debt.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Super Fly (1972)
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- Curtis Mayfield's soundtrack alone made about $5 million in profit - more than the roughly $4 million the film itself earned - making it one of the first film soundtracks to bring in such a sizable return.
- The majority of Super Fly's technical crew was non-white, forming the largest non-white technical crew of its time and setting it apart from other blaxploitation films.
- The Congress for Racial Equality, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and other organizations tried to block the film's distribution and pushed for more African-American involvement in Hollywood, while the Student National Coordinating Committee protested it as a tool of white oppression.
- Organized-crime veterans in California, including drug trafficker "Freeway" Rick Ross, have cited Super Fly as an influence on their decision to take up drug dealing and gang violence.
- Super Fly took an initial $24.8 million and another $2 million in 1973 re-release rentals in the US and Canada, making it the highest-grossing blaxploitation film of its time.
