MELVIN VAN PEEBLES' CLASSIFIED X

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• Release Year: 1998
• Genre: Classic, Documentary
• Plot: Melvin Van Peebles, director of the breakthrough movie Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, turns his acerbic insights and acid-dripped humor on Hollywood's utilization of its sepia citizens. Classified X examines the treatment of black characters throughout the history of American cinema. Van Peebles uses examples from classic films beginning with footage by Thomas Edison in 1903 to the present, tracing how Hollywood has aided and abetted the public perception of the African-American down through the years. From its earliest days, Van Peebles says, Hollywood reflected society's fear of blacks and countered with wish-fulfilling images of African Americans as servile,ignorant superstitious, or untrustworthy. With & candor and witt, he explores the institutionalization of racism before Sweetback and afterwards.;
• Cast: Melvin Van Peebles, Margaret Barker, Joanna Barnes, Ethel Barrymore, Harry Belafonte, Ingrid Bergman, David Brian, Lloyd Bridges, Steve Brodie, Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, James Burke, Jeff Corey, Lou Costello, Jeanne Crain, Tony Curtis, Dorothy Dandridge, Gloria DeHaven, Douglas Dick, Tamara Dobson, Kirk Douglas, Irene Dunne, James Edwards, Mel Ferrer, Errol Flynn, Nina Foch, Ava Gardner, Will Geer, Mel Gibson, Lillian Gish, Danny Glover, Cary Grant, Kathryn Grayson, Pam Grier, Juano Hernandez, Lena Horne, Katharine Houghton, John Hudkins, Richard Hylton, Rex Ingram, Claude Jarman Jr., Al Jolson, Martin Luther King, Kevin Kline, Burt Lancaster, Canada Lee, Vivien Leigh, Frank Lovejoy, Lee Marvin, Harpo Marx, May McAvoy, Hattie McDaniel, Nina Mae McKinney, Adolphe Menjou, Zakes Mokae, Barry Nelson, Frederick O'Neal, Ron O'Neal, Maureen O'Sullivan, Laurence Olivier, Beatrice Pearson, Sidney Poitier, Dick Powell, Mickey Rooney, Richard Roundtree, Robert Ryan, George Siegmann, Kenneth Spencer, James Stewart, Woody Strode, Shirley Temple, Peter Ustinov, Ethel Waters, Johnny Weissmuller, Richard Widmark, Martin Wilkins, Dooley Wilson, Penelope Wilton, Malcolm X, Mark Daniels
• Director: Mark Daniels
• Runtime: 1:30
• Company: FOX LORBER Entainment
• Media Format: Movie