Watermelon Man
His white bread world just turned upside brown!
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.
Crew and Cast
Melvin Van PeeblesDirector
Godfrey CambridgeJefferson Washington 'Jeff' Gerber
Estelle ParsonsAlthea Janine Gerber
Howard CaineMr. Townsend
D'Urville MartinBus Driver
Mantan MorelandJoe the Counterman
Erin MoranJanice GerberScott GarrettBurton Gerber
Paul WilliamsEmployment Office Clerk
Kay E. KuterDr. WainwrightKay KimberlyErica
Irving SelbstMr. Johnson
Emil SitkaDelivery ManLawrence Parke1st Passenger
Karl LukasPoliceman #2Ralph MontgomeryDrugstore Boss
Charles LampkinDr. Catlin
Erik L. NelsonDoormanDonna DubrowReceptionist
Frank FarmerAndy Brandon
Ron PinkardPoliceman · Policeman
Niva RuschellHousewife
Ray Ballard3rd Passenger
Robert Dagny2nd Passenger
Vivian RhodesGladys
Matthias UitzCab Driver
Rhodie CoganMrs. Johnson
Hazel MedinaWidowPaul BradleyClub Member
Niva RuschellHousewife
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Info
- Status
- Released
- Released
- 27 May 1970
- Runtime
- 1h 40m
- Rating
- R
- TMDB score
- 6.3 / 10 (62 votes)
Production
- Director
- Melvin Van Peebles
- Writers
- Herman Raucher
- Studios
- Johanna, Columbia Pictures
- Countries
- United States of America
Box Office
- Revenue
- $1.1M
Languages
- Original
- English
- Spoken
- English