Panther (Original title)Black Panther (Working title)
Dates: 1995 (Copyright), 10 November 1995 (Release)Countries: United Kingdom, USADirected by: Mario Van Peebles
Synopsis: Political drama about some members of the Black Panthers, a militant group of blacks, hunted by the FBI. The main character Judge, a recent member of the gang, becomes torn between his friends and the police who wants him as an informer. Partly historical, partly fictional film.
Genre: Drama
Subject: Politics
Releases
Date: 03 May 1995Country: USARelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Colour and Black and White - DeLuxe - Sound - Dolby SRRuntime: 124 mins Dialogue (original): English
Title: What Else is New?Author: BRADLEY, Lloyd Article type: ArticleLanguage: English
Description: Interview with Mario and Melvin Van Peebles about the production history of PANTHER, and it's reception.
In: Premiere v3 n10 November 1995 Page: 15
Title: [Premiere - v3 n10 November 1995: no known title]Author: ERRIGO, Angie Article type: ReviewLanguage: English
In: Sight and Sound v5 n12 December 1995 Pages: 49-50
Title: reviewsAuthor: LIPMAN, Amanda Article type: CreditsLanguage: English
In: Variety 1 May 1995 Page: 35,39
Title: [Variety - 1 May 1995: no known title]Author: MCCARTHY, Todd Article type: CreditsLanguage: English
In: Moving Pictures International nSpecial Locarno. 1995 Pages: 8-9
Title: Sights set on the leopardArticle type: Festival ReportLanguage: English
Description: Details of the entries for the Festival awards.
In: Empire n78 December 1995 Page: 44
Title: New filmsAuthor: NEWMAN, Kim Article type: CreditsLanguage: English
In: Empire n78 December 1995 Pages: 60-61
Title: Like father like sonAuthor: PULVER, Andrew Article type: ArticleLanguage: English
Description: Melvin Van Peebles and his son Mario Van Peebles discuss black radical politics, referring to their latest film PANTHER.
In: Variety 18 Apr 1994 Page: 21
Title: [Variety - 18 Apr 1994: no known title]Article type: Prod. DetailsLanguage: English
In: The Hollywood Reporter v332 n32 14 June 1994 Page: 28
Title: [The Hollywood Reporter - v332 n32 14 June 1994: no known title]Article type: Prod. DetailsLanguage: English
In: Screen International n965 8 Jul 1994 Page: 22
Title: PantherAuthor: BAHIANA, Ana Maria Article type: Prod. ReportLanguage: English
Author: MCCRISKEN, Trevor B. Pages: xii, 227 p.
Title: Troubling beginnings: trans(per)forming African American history and identity
Author: STEVENS, Maurice E. Pages: vii, 192 p.
Title: Panther: a pictorial history of the Black Panthers and the story behind the film
Author: VAN PEEBLES, Mario Pages: 192p.
Dates: 1995 (Copyright), 10 November 1995 (Release)Countries: United Kingdom, USADirected by: Mario Van Peebles
Synopsis: Political drama about some members of the Black Panthers, a militant group of blacks, hunted by the FBI. The main character Judge, a recent member of the gang, becomes torn between his friends and the police who wants him as an informer. Partly historical, partly fictional film.
Genre: Drama
Subject: Politics
Releases
Date: 03 May 1995Country: USARelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Colour and Black and White - DeLuxe - Sound - Dolby SRRuntime: 124 mins Dialogue (original): English
Credits
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©: PolyGram Film Productions B.V., Production Company: Working Title Films, In association with: Tribeca Productions, MVP Filmz, Presents: PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, Executive Producer: Tim Bevan, Executive Producer: Eric Fellner, Produced by: Mario Van Peebles, Produced by: Melvin Van Peebles, Preston L. Holmes, Associate Producer: Liza Chasin, For Working Title (Head of Production): Jane Frazer, For Working Title (Head of Business Affairs): Angela Morrison, For Working Title (Legal Adviser): Rachel Holroyd, For Working Title (Head of Finance): Rashid Chinchanwala, For Working Title (Head of Development): Debra Hayward, Unit Production Manager: Brent Owens, Production Supervisor: Maria Dylan, Production Co-ordinator: Dave 'Foots' Footman, Production Auditor: Mark McNair, Production Accountant: Patricia Ann Holmes, Location Manager: Tony Saenz, Location Manager: Ellen Winchell, Location Manager: Nathan Kaufman, Location Assistant: Donna Gross, Location Assistant: Rick Byrum, Post-production Supervisor: Graham Stumpf, Archival Footage Research: Deborah Ricketts, 1st Assistant Director: H.H. Cooper, 2nd Assistant Director: Kia Puriefoy, Algric Leo Chaplin, 2nd 2nd Assistant Director: Tracey Hinds, Script Supervisor: Elizabeth Ludwick, Casting by: Robi Reed-Humes, Tony Lee, Voice Casting: Barbara Harris, Casting by: Andrea Reed, Extras Casting: M.R. Cooper Casting, Extras Casting Assistant: Teddy F. Stewart, P.J. Johnson, Voice Casting: Barbara Harris, Extras Casting Assistant: Burnett Taing Walton, Jacques Taliaferro, Screenplay by: Melvin Van Peebles, Based on the novel 'Panther' by: Melvin Van Peebles, Director of Photography: Edward Pei, Aerial Camera: Philip Pastuhov, 2nd Camera Operator: Kirk R. Gardner, Additional Camera Operator: Philip Holahan, Additional Camera Operator: Stephen McNutt, Additional Camera Operator: Bruce Finn, Jürgen Baum, Steadicam Operator: Kirk R. Gardner, 1st Assistant Camera: James M. Sprattley, 1st Assistant Camera: Emil Hampton, Davie Carothers, 2nd Assistant Camera: Jessica Bellone d'altavilla, 2nd Assistant Camera: Vicki Beck, Eulanda Bailey, Additional Camera Assistant: Robin Melhuish, Additional Camera Assistant: Kenji Luster, Additional Camera Assistant: Joe Andreini, Walter O. Lancaster Iv, Camera Loader: Kelsey S. Mcneal, Gaffer: Christian Martinez, Key Grip: Vince Rodriguez, Video Assist: Diallo Mclinn, 24 Frame Video Playback: E=mc², Playback Operator: Mark Wineman, Still Photographer: Robert Zuckerman, Additional Still Photographer: Renaldo Jackson, Optical Effects Line-up: Dan Hamilton, Optical Colour Timer: Dan Valliere, Special Effects Co-ordinator: Beverley Hartigan, Special Effects: Ultimate Effects, Pyrotechnics: Ted Coplen, Film Editor: Earl Watson, Kevin Lindstrom, 1st Assistant Editor: Angela Terry Robinson, Assistant Editor: Marilyn R. Moore, Production Design: Richard Hoover, Art Director: Bruce Hill, Assistant Art Director: Adam Scher, Assistant Art Director: Norman Scott, Set Decorator: Bob Kensinger, Lead [Man]: Douglas Wright, Swing Dresser: Warren Alan Young, Swing Dresser: Claude 'Chuck' Askerneese, Kinney K. Booker, On-set Dresser: Bill Butler, Lead Scenic: Dave Robinson, Prop Master: Cliff Lane, Construction Foreman: Jon Kazunaga, Construction Co-ordinator: Keith Cox, Costume Designer: Paul Simmons, Costumer: Diana Zeegelaar, Costumer: Antonitta Barnes, Costumer: Omar Simmons, Costumer: Leslie Bracey Jr, Costumer: Devon Patterson, Jennifer Ruscoe, Wardrobe Supervisor: Paul A. Simmons Jr, Head Make-up: Kim Davis, Key Make-up: Diane Hammond, Assistant Make-up: Brian Andrew Tunstall, Phoebe Holston, Additional Make-up: Elizabeth Jermundson, Blake Shepard, Make-up: Loretta A. Williams, Holly Dunn, Hairstylist: Ted Long, Assistant Hairstylist: Barbara Augustus, Hair Assistant: Joell Ben Khan, Linda Stevenson-Khan, Hairstylist: Sydney Bowen, Title Design: Wenden K. Baldwin, Titles/Opticals by: Cinema Research Corporation, Negative Cutter: Theresa Repola Mohammed, Colour Timer: Keith Parrish, Filmed with: Panavision Cameras & Lenses, Filmed on: Eastman Kodak, Colour by: DeLuxe, Original Music by: Stanley Clarke, Featured Solo Trumpet: Timm Morrison, Synthesizer Programming: Paul Rabjohns, Conducting: William Kidd, Orchestration: William Kidd, Music Supervisor: Larry Robinson, Music Contractor: John Rosenberg, Executive Music/Soundtrack Producer: Adam Kidron, Samuel J. Sapp, Executive Producer of Soundtrack: Mario Van Peebles, Music Editor: Christine Cholvin, Additional Music Editor: Zigmund Gron, Music Scoring Mixer: Dan Wallin, Additional Music Scoring Mixer: Dan Humann, Digital Sound Design: Danetracks, Production Sound Mixer: Susumu Tokunow, Additional Production Sound Mixer: Felipe Borrero, Boom Operator: Jonathan Fuh, Additional Boom Operator: Robert Perry, Re-recording Mixer: Robert W. Glass Jr, Re-recording Mixer: Stanley Kastner, Dan Wallin, Dubbing Recordist: Brian Lucas, Dubbing Loader: Tom Steel, Digital/Analogic Audio Engineering: Frank Long, Richard Cottrell, Post-production Sound Facility: Inc Olympic Sound Studio, Supervising Sound Editor: Dane A. Davis, Sound Editor: Kimberly Lowe Voigt, Sound Editor: John Kwiatowski, Sound Editor: Stewart Nelsen, Sound Editor: Nick Forshager, Sound Editor: Charles W. Ritter, Sound Editor: Patricio Libenson, Sound Editor: Piero Mura, Digital Sound Editing: Danetracks, Sound Effects Supervisor: Todd Toon, Special Vocal Effects: Frank Welker, ADR Supervisor: G.W. Brown, ADR Recordist: Dana Porter, ADR Mixer: Tommy Goodwin, Foley Supervisor: Kini Kay, Foley Artist: Joan Rowe, Foley Artist: Sean Rowe, Foley Recordist: Scott Austin, Foley Mixer: Ron Bedrosian, Stunt Co-ordinator: Bob Minor, Technical Adviser: J. Tarika Lewis, Historical Consultant: Ula Taylor, Dolby Sound Consultant: Thom Ehle, Consultant: Dario Scardapane, Big Cheese: Michael Kuhn, In memory of: Orwin C. Harvey, In memory of: Dolly Mae Hutton, In memory of: Robert Bay, Jerry Rubin, Helicopter Pilot: Rick Shuster, Unit Publicist: Winokur & Ryder Baker, International Publicity: Jan Kean
Cast
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Kadeem Hardison (Judge), Bokeem Woodbine (Tyrone), Joe Don Baker (Brimmer), Courtney B. Vance (Bobby Seale), Tyrin Turner (Cy), Marcus Chong (Huey P. Newton), Anthony Griffith (Eldridge Cleaver), Bobby Brown (Rose), Nefertiti (Alma), James Russo (Rodgers), Jenifer Lewis (Rita), (Yuck Mouth), Roger Guenveur Smith (Pruitt), Michael Wincott (Tynan), Richard Dysart (J. Edgar Hoover), M. Emmet Walsh (Dorsett), Wesley Jonathan (Little Bobby Hutton), Kahlil Nelson (boy on bike), Thayis Walsh (Bernadette), Anthony Johnson (Sabu), Dick Gregory (Reverend Slocum), Kool Moe Dee (Jamal), Lahmard Tate (Gene McKinney), William Fuller (Sergeant Schreck), David Greenlee (patrolman), Melvin Van Peebles (old jail bird), Adam Powers (hippie), Brent Schaefer (Emory Douglas), Mark Curry (Lombard), Dario Scardapane (student), Reginald Ballard (brother at meeting), Ralph Ahn (Mr Yang), James Bigwood, Martin Bright (Grove Street cop), Mark Buntzman (pushy reporter), Robert Peters (cop at Ramparts), Jeffrey Carr (Denzil Dowell), Steven Carl White (George), Charles Cooper (sheriff), Jay Koch (Governor Ronald Reagan), Tim Loughrin (reporter at Capitol), Tony Beard (guard at Capitol), Jerry Rubin (defense attorney), Beau Windham (Hoover's aide), Jamie Zozzaro (girl buying drugs), Yolanda Whitaker (pregnant junkie), Arthur Reed (blind man), Christopher Michaels (reporter at police station), James LeGros (Avakian), Joseph Culp (baby faced cop), Preston L. Holmes (prison guard), Chris Tucker (bodyguard), Tracey Costello (Kathleen Cleaver), Jeris Poindexter (black cop), Brent Sincock (courtroom judge), James A. Earley (angry cop), Sharrif Simmons (poet), Aklam (Bakar), Rob Rule, Eddie Anisko, Robbie Allen, David King (Berkeley campus singer), John 'Doo Doo Brown' Gordon, Marvin Young, D-knowledge (recruit), Shanice Wilson (singer at Punk Panthers), Ann Weldon (Mrs Dowell), Brian Turk (deputy), Tony! Toni! Toné! (band at barbeque), Dwayne P. Wiggins, Timothy C. Riley, John T. Smith, Elijah Baker, Vincent Lars (Tony Toni Tone [are:]), Roberto L. Santana (Matty), Gunnar Peterson (cop at gas station), John Harwood (cop at line up), John Knight (cop at Panther office), Erik Kohner (nervous cop), Robert Culp (Charles Garry), John Snyder (cop), Mario Van Peebles (Stokely Carmichael), Steve Gagnon (prosecutor), Manny Perry (Shorty), William Brennan (partner)
Articles held in BFI Reuben Library
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In: Premiere v3 n10 November 1995 Pages: 78-81Title: What Else is New?Author: BRADLEY, Lloyd Article type: ArticleLanguage: English
Description: Interview with Mario and Melvin Van Peebles about the production history of PANTHER, and it's reception.
In: Premiere v3 n10 November 1995 Page: 15
Title: [Premiere - v3 n10 November 1995: no known title]Author: ERRIGO, Angie Article type: ReviewLanguage: English
In: Sight and Sound v5 n12 December 1995 Pages: 49-50
Title: reviewsAuthor: LIPMAN, Amanda Article type: CreditsLanguage: English
In: Variety 1 May 1995 Page: 35,39
Title: [Variety - 1 May 1995: no known title]Author: MCCARTHY, Todd Article type: CreditsLanguage: English
In: Moving Pictures International nSpecial Locarno. 1995 Pages: 8-9
Title: Sights set on the leopardArticle type: Festival ReportLanguage: English
Description: Details of the entries for the Festival awards.
In: Empire n78 December 1995 Page: 44
Title: New filmsAuthor: NEWMAN, Kim Article type: CreditsLanguage: English
In: Empire n78 December 1995 Pages: 60-61
Title: Like father like sonAuthor: PULVER, Andrew Article type: ArticleLanguage: English
Description: Melvin Van Peebles and his son Mario Van Peebles discuss black radical politics, referring to their latest film PANTHER.
In: Variety 18 Apr 1994 Page: 21
Title: [Variety - 18 Apr 1994: no known title]Article type: Prod. DetailsLanguage: English
In: The Hollywood Reporter v332 n32 14 June 1994 Page: 28
Title: [The Hollywood Reporter - v332 n32 14 June 1994: no known title]Article type: Prod. DetailsLanguage: English
In: Screen International n965 8 Jul 1994 Page: 22
Title: PantherAuthor: BAHIANA, Ana Maria Article type: Prod. ReportLanguage: English
Books held in BFI Reuben Library
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Title: American history and contemporary Hollywood filmAuthor: MCCRISKEN, Trevor B. Pages: xii, 227 p.
Title: Troubling beginnings: trans(per)forming African American history and identity
Author: STEVENS, Maurice E. Pages: vii, 192 p.
Title: Panther: a pictorial history of the Black Panthers and the story behind the film
Author: VAN PEEBLES, Mario Pages: 192p.