JANUARY 3, 2014

Watch ‘One Last Deal:

A Retrospective’

(Informative Doc

On Making & Release Of

‘Super Fly’)

A nice 25-minute documentary on the making of the 1972 crime drama blaxploitation classic Super Fly, starring the late Ron O’Neal.

 

It’s from the 2004 DVD release of the film – one of the extra features – titled One Last Deal: A Retrospective. Ironically, O’Neal died a day after the film was released on DVD.

 

And I don’t believe it’s on Blu-ray yet.

 

As Tony award-winning stage director/choreographer, Bill T. Jones (Fela!) preps his Broadway musical production ofSuper Fly (a project we’ve been following since it was first announced a couple of years ago), take a trip down memory lane and revisit one of blaxploitation cinema’s early successes, directed by Gordon Parks, Jr., featuring a hit soundtrack by Curtis Mayfield.

 

Learn how the project came together, how it was financed, cast, released, how the soundtrack was meshed with the film, the film’s legacy, and more.

 

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