Back Super Fly Welsh Superfly Spanish سوپرفلای (فیلم) Persian Super Fly French Super Fly (film 1972) ID Super Fly Italian スーパーフライ (映画) Japanese 슈퍼 플라이 (1972년 영화) Korean Суперфлай (фильм, 1972) Russian Super Fly (film) Serbo-Croatian
| Super Fly | |
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| Directed by | Gordon Parks Jr. |
| Written by | Phillip Fenty |
| Produced by | Sig Shore |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | James Signorelli |
| Edited by | Bob Brady |
| Music by | Curtis Mayfield |
Production company | Superfly Ltd.[1] |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures[1] |
Release date |
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Running time | 91 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | <$500,000[2] or $150,000[3] |
| Box office | >$30 million[2] or $18.6 million (US/)[3] |
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. It was released on August 4, 1972.
O'Neal reprised his role as Youngblood Priest in the 1973 film Super Fly T.N.T., which he also directed. Producer Sig Shore directed a second sequel, The Return of Superfly, released in 1990, with Nathan Purdee as Priest. A remake was released in 2018.
In 2022, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[4]
- ^ a b "Super Fly (1972) - Credits". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. Archived from the original on April 22, 2023. Retrieved March 23, 2018.
- ^ a b "Super Fly (1972) - Notes". Turner Classic Movies. Archived from the original on November 1, 2023. Retrieved November 1, 2023.
- ^ a b Vincent L. Barnett (2020) Super Fly (1972), Coffy (1973) and The Mack (1973): Under- and Over-Estimating Blaxploitation Box Office, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 40:2, 373-388, DOI: 10.1080/01439685.2019.1697036
- ^ Ulaby, Neda (December 14, 2022). "'Iron Man,' 'Super Fly' and 'Carrie' are inducted into the National Film Registry". NPR. Archived from the original on December 14, 2022. Retrieved December 14, 2022.