Petey Wheatstraw

In this slapstick blaxploitation feature, Petey Wheatstraw (Rudy Ray Moore, aka "Mr. Dolomite") is a candidate to become the devil's son-in-law. The storyline is a scaffolding on which Rudy Ray Moore's standup humor can be unfolded. Beginning life as the afterbirth to a watermelon, the young ...more

The blaxploitation genre produced its fair share of colorful oddities during its brief window of popularity, but none of those films were ever as mind-alteringly surreal as Petey Wheatstraw. This no-budget fusion of trashy comedy and cut-rate action can't be termed a success in the conventional sense. The plot changes direction every five minutes, the technical credits are threadbare, and calling the acting "amateurish" would be a polite understatement. Despite these seemingly insurmountable ...more