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Sweet Sugar (1972)

Sweet Sugar poster
Directed by
Michel Levesque
Genre
blaxploitation film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 30m
Rated
R
Rating
4.3 of 10 from 22 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman is sent to work on a chain gang. She endures harsh conditions and the cruelty of those in charge.

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What happens

Sweet Sugar is a 1972 American women in prison exploitation film directed by Michel Levesque and starring Phyllis Davis. It is about a woman sentenced to work on a chain gang. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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