Don't Play Us Cheap (1973)
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Melvin Van Peebles' first film after his groundbreaking blaxploitation effort Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song was this photographed version of his Broadway musical Don't Play Us Cheap, in which a pair of Satan's helpers, in order to earn their horns, are dispatched to Harlem to… More Melvin Van Peebles' first film after his groundbreaking blaxploitation effort Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song was this photographed version of his Broadway musical Don't Play Us Cheap, in which a pair of Satan's helpers, in order to earn their horns, are dispatched to Harlem to crash into (and break up) a wild party. Don't Play Us Cheap received only a minimal release in 1973, and was largely unseen until it was released on videotape in the mid-'90s. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Directed By
- Melvin Van Peebles
- Genres
- Musical & Performing Arts, Classics, Comedy
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Cast
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Esther Rolle
as Miss Maybell
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Avon Long
as David
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Rhetta Hughes
as Earnestine
- George Ooppee McCurn
- Jay Van Leer
- Mabel King
- Robert Dunn
- Theresa Merritt
- Thomas Anderson
