Gordon Parks, Jr's blaxploitation classic "Superfly" chronicles the trials and tribulations of a cocaine dealer, Youngblood Priest (Ron O'Neal of "Original Gangstas"), who wants to bow out of the business with one big score and retire to obscurity. Priest informs his partner that they can buy 30 kilos of high-quality cocaine for $300-thousand and sell it in four months' time for a cool million. The catch is that Priest wants to buy the coke from his favorite drug dealer, Scatter (Julius W. Harris of "Live and Let Die," but Scatter has already made it known that he has dealt his last cocaine. Priest admires Scatter and convinces the older man who he grew up with to get the product for him. Just about everybody around Priest who either wants out or prefers to remain as a drug pusher suffers a terrible fate. Unfortunately, Scatter discovers that his former employers don't want him to quit, and they kill him and make his death appear to be a drug overdose. Call it sympathy for the pusher because the protagonist has decided to turn over a new leaf, change his ways, and conclude his life of crime. Priest's sexual conquest in a bubble bath glamorizes his lifestyle as much as the plethora of up-close shots of him cruising around in his pimped-out 1972 Eldorado Cadillac with a Rolls Royce Grill. Indeed, according to the trivia section at IMDB.COM, the NAACP denounced the portrayal of Priest's lifestyle "for its glorification of drug use and the stereotyping of African-Americans." Nevertheless, our protagonist experiences his share of woes. Early, in the action, Priest struggles with two junkies who try to steal his money, and our protagonist has to chase one of them across town-it seems-to reclaim his loot. O'Neal must have been in tip-top shape to perform stunts like clambering up a fire escape in his desperate pursuit of his quarry. Later, a dim-witted, ill-fated underling, Fat Freddie (Charles MacGregor of "Across 110th Street"), gives up Priest to dirty NYPD detectives after being brutally tortured for the information. The 1970s' blood splashed across his face resembles paint more than blood. Nevertheless, Priest is sincere about his vow to quit. Just when the police are poised to crush his dream, Priest learns that those corrupt white cops want to use him as their pipeline. Priest's partner-in-crime Eddie (Carl Lee of "Werewolves on Wheels") rejoices about the new set-up and banishes any thought of turning his back on the sweet life. Later, near the end of this 91-minute epic, Priest confronts his chief adversary, a high-ranking white policeman, Deputy Commissioner Reardon. The only thing that prevents Reardon from killing Priest is that the hero has paid white assassins to retaliate against the Commissioner and his family if Priest dies. If any soundtrack were ever inseparable from a film such was the case with Curtis Mayfield songs. "Superfly" wouldn't be "Superfly" without Mayfield's iconic songs. Produced for a reputed half-million dollars, this crime classic coined over $30 million at the box office.

A cocaine dealer decides to retire after making a big business.This one of the best low budget movies. The movies prostrates the story of a cocaine dealer. He wants to retire and settle in a normal life with his love. For that, he is getting ready for the one final, and large deal.The plus point of this film is that, there are no much "mass" in it. The protagonist is a "hero", but, no much build up is given, but a few. The tactics he uses in the climax was simply superb and heroic. I think this film made a way to many of this genre.An interesting movie and worth watch for all film lovers.

I really wanted to like this movie, as it was quite the hot ticket back when I was a kid....that, plus the superb soundtrack. I can hardly describe my disappointment when I actually got to viddy the thing. Bad script, bad sound, atrocious camera work, and awful direction. It looks and feels a lot worse than some high school film productions. The script is insulting to it's audience and demonstrates what today seems like an incredible contempt for the black characters. It is true that the movie was incredibly influential for the first half of the 1970s....in a way that got brutally parodied in the film _I'm Gonna Get You, Sucka_.There are lots of good blaxploitation flicks out there. Don't waste your time with this incompetent piece of junk.

One of the many blaxploitation flicks of the early '70s, "Super Fly" portrays a ghetto drug dealer (Ron O'Neal) beginning to have misgivings about his lifestyle. True, it's a very amateurish movie - in one scene where he's in a car, it looks like the camera is probably sitting on someone's shoulder - but quite a desirable one. More than just showing the drug culture for the sake of showing it, the movie makes it clear that this was often the only career available to destitute black men living in skid row.I thought that a particularly effective scene is when Priest is on the run (that's a drug dealer life: always on the run) and he climbs into a certain apartment. In the apartment is a bevy of men who have clearly hoarded any money that they've made for themselves, completely ignoring their families. Sort of like what the Temptations' song "Papa Was a Rolling Stone" describes.But probably this film's greatest aspect is that it, like many other movies released during the few years around 1970, was like a kick in the groin to the so-called "family fun" that had been a mainstay in American cinema during the '50s and early '60s (you know, the Disney movies?). And what would it be without Curtis Mayfield's masterful theme song? All in all, a great movie.