Movie
Watermelon Man
Overview
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.
Details
- Release date
- 1970-05-27
- Runtime
- 100 min
- Genres
- Comedy
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Johanna, Columbia Pictures
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Godfrey Cambridge as Jefferson Washington 'Jeff' Gerber
- Estelle Parsons as Althea Janine Gerber
- Howard Caine as Mr. Townsend
- D'Urville Martin as Bus Driver
- Mantan Moreland as Joe the Counterman
- Erin Moran as Janice Gerber
- Scott Garrett as Burton Gerber
- Paul Williams as Employment Office Clerk
- Kay E. Kuter as Dr. Wainwright
- Kay Kimberly as Erica
- Irving Selbst as Mr. Johnson
- Emil Sitka as Delivery Man
Crew
- Melvin Van Peebles - Director
- Herman Raucher - Writer
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