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Budget. $1.5 million [2] Super Fly T.N.T. is a 1973 American blaxploitation crime drama film directed by and starring Ron O'Neal. O'Neal reprises his role of Youngblood Priest from the 1972 film Super Fly. The film was both a critical and commercial failure according to some critics. [clarification needed]
Ron O'Neal (September 1, 1937 – January 14, 2004) was an American actor, director and screenwriter, who rose to fame in his role as Youngblood Priest, a New York City cocaine dealer, in the blaxploitation film Super Fly (1972) and its sequel Super Fly T.N.T. (1973). O'Neal was also a director and writer for the sequel, and for the film Up ...
Super Fly. (1972 film) Super Fly is a 1972 American blaxploitation crime drama film directed by Gordon Parks Jr. and starring Ron O'Neal as Youngblood Priest, an African American cocaine dealer who is trying to quit the underworld drug business. The film is well known for its soundtrack, written and produced by soul musician Curtis Mayfield.
- Discovered Theater
- Rejected For Shakespeare
- Movie Became Classic Blaxploitation Epic
- Relegated to Action Roles
- Sources
Tragedy struck the O’Neal family again just six months after the father’s death, when O’Neal’s brother, a truck driver, died in an accident. His mother found a job in a hospital and, after finishing high school, O’Neal spent one semester at Ohio State University in Columbus, where he preferred playing bridge and chess to attending class, and earned...
O’Neal’s big break was a mixed blessing, however, for he still found it difficult to win new roles. He appeared in a 1970 Elliott Gould movie called Move, returned to No Place for its run on Broadway, which lasted just three weeks, and then didn’t work for seven months. Papp offered him part in his acclaimed “Shakespeare in the Park” summer series,...
When Superfly hit theaters in the summer of 1972, Warner Brothers spent little to promote it, fearing negative publicity, but the movie quickly caught on via word of mouth and became a sensation. Made by Parks on a budget of just $500,000, it grossed $5 million, and the soundtrack by Curtis Mayfield sold two million copies. “Urban audiences flocked...
O’Neal hard a hard time finding solid roles after Superfly. He appeared in several crime and action films over the next quarter-century, including Billy Jack (1975), A Force of One (1979), and Red Dawn (1984). His first television role came opposite Muhammad Ali in a 1979 television miniseries, Freedom Road, about a slave who becomes a politician. ...
Books
Contemporary Theatre, Film, and Television,Vol. 37, Gale, 2002.
Periodicals
Daily News(Los Angeles, CA), May 10, 1996, p. L11. Daily Variety,January 19, 2004, p. 9; March 8, 2004, p. 16. Entertainment Weekly,May 10, 1996, p. 45. Independent (London, England), January 20, 2004, p. 16. Jet,February 9, 2004, p. 64. New York Times,September 17, 1972, p. D11; January 17, 2004, p. B7. Times(London, England), March 12, 2004, p. 42. —Carol Brennan
Film trilogy following the adventures of reformed drug dealer Youngblood Priest. Number of Movies: 3. Revenue: $30,000,000.
Super Fly T.N.T. is a 1973 American blaxploitation crime drama film directed and starring Ron O'Neal. O'Neal reprises his role of Youngblood Priest from the 1972 film Super Fly. The film was both a critical and commercial failure according to some critics.
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Apr 22, 2014 · Georgia wants to stay (and drive his car) and she’s tired of running. So instead of moving again Priest decides to take a vacation. You know, somewhere nice. Perhaps a small war-torn African country. This is a great musical montage in the tradition of the first SUPER FLY, but instead of the underbelly.
