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Watermelon Man (1970)
Directed by Melvin Van Peebles
“His white bread world just turned upside brown!”
Comedy · 1h 40m
A racist insurance agent lives in a typical suburban neighborhood, but his bigoted world of taunting and harassing black people on and off the job is turned upside down when his skin inexplicably turns dark overnight.
Cast
Godfrey Cambridge
Jefferson Washington 'Jeff' Gerber
Estelle Parsons
Althea Janine Gerber
Howard Caine
Mr. Townsend
D'Urville Martin
Bus Driver
Mantan Moreland
Joe the Counterman
Erin Moran
Janice Gerber
S
Scott Garrett
Burton Gerber
Paul Williams
Employment Office Clerk
Kay E. Kuter
Dr. Wainwright
K
Kay Kimberly
Erica
I
Irving Selbst
Mr. Johnson
Emil Sitka
Delivery Man
Crew
- Director
- Melvin Van Peebles
- Writer
- Herman Raucher
- Director of Photography
- W. Wallace Kelley
- Original Music Composer
- Melvin Van Peebles
- Editor
- Carl Kress
- Producer
- John B. Bennett
Details
- Release date
- 1970-05-27
- Runtime
- 1h 40m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Johanna, Columbia Pictures
- Box office
- $1,100,000