A bigoted white man makes the unlikely conversion to a brother in
Melvin Van Peebles’s uproarious race-relations satire
Watermelon Man (1970). The star and director of blaxploitation classic
Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (1971) tackles racism head-on in a film that centers on a Kafka-esque transformation.
Godfrey Cambridge plays a wisecracking salesman who wakes up one morning with a new shade of skin. Flummoxed
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