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Director
  
Henning Schellerup

Cinematography
  
Paul Hipp

Duration
  

Language
  
English

5/10
IMDb

Music by
  
Horace Tapscott

Genres
  
Action Film, Drama film

Country
  
United States

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Release date
  
May 25, 1973 (1973-05-25)

Writer
  
John Cerullo, M. Stuart Madden, Abbey Leitch

Cast
  
Roger E. Mosley
(Holmes / Lee),
William Smith
(Martelli),
Michael Pataki
(State Senator Sills),
Tom Johnigarn
(Eddie Stoner),
Joe Tornatore
(Joey),
Damu King
(Sweetstick)

Similar movies
  
I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
,
The Inglorious Bastards
,
Foxy Brown
,
Black Dynamite
,
Coffy
,
Black Gunn

Tagline
  
Amen, Brother!

Sweet Jesus, Preacherman is a 1973 American blaxploitation action film directed by Henning Schellerup and written by John Cerullo, M. Stuart Madden and Abbey Leitch. The film stars Roger E. Mosley, William Smith, Michael Pataki, Tom Johnigarn, Joe Tornatore and Damu King. The film was released on May 25, 1973, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

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Holmes is a hitman who has nailed one victim after another. Having iced a large number of them, he is sent by his boss Martelli to infiltrate a section of the black quarter of the inner city. To do this, he becomes Reverend Lee, a Baptist preacher who comes to the local church to preach. Finding that other thugs are there, he decides to take the entire section for himself.

Cast

  • Roger E. Mosley as Holmes / Lee
  • William Smith as Martelli
  • Michael Pataki as State Senator Sills
  • Tom Johnigarn as Eddie Stoner
  • Joe Tornatore as Joey
  • Damu King as Sweetstick
  • Marla Gibbs as Beverly Solomon
  • Sam Laws as Deacon Greene
  • Phil Hoover as George Orr
  • Paul Silliman as Roy
  • Chuck Lyles as Detroit Charlie
  • Norman Fields as Police Captain
  • Della Thomas as Foxey
  • Amentha Dymally as Mrs. Greene
  • Patricia Edwards as Marion Hicks
  • Chuck Douglas Jr. as Lenny Solomon
  • Vincent LaBauve as Bobby Thompson
  • Chuck Wells as Eli Stoner
  • Betty Coleman as Maxine Gibbs
  • Lou Jackson as Randy Gibbs
  • Lillian Tarry as Mother Gibbs
  • T.C. Ellis as Earl Saunders
  • Lee Frost as 1st Policeman
  • Joanne Bruno as Widow Foster
  • K.D. Friend as Funeral Minister
  • Gordon James as Restaurant Hood
  • Billy Quinn as Sweetstick's Bodyguard
  • References

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