Melvin Van Peebles’ First Feature Film “The Story of a Three Day Pass’ Coming out on Blu-Ray DVD

In my piece about the upcoming Blu-ray DVD release later this year of Melvin Van Peebles’ “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song” as joint venture between the specialty DVD labels Xenon Pictures and Vinegar Syndrome (HERE) I reported that Sweet Sweetback was the first of several important independent black films from the 60’s and 70’s that the labels would be jointly putting out together later this year and next year.

And another of those releases will be Van Pebbles’ first feature film “The Story of a Three Day Pass”. Made in 1967 in France where Van Peebles was living at the time, the film was based on his novel “La Permission” and deals with a conflicted U.S. Army solider…

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