Debutant director Gordon Parks jr .
Story is about crafty black drug dealer working in the street of Harlem.
He is tired of drug business and needs to get out. There was also critical endersement thou Superfly is very stylish and atmospheric film. Like Deluxe Edition's sleevenotes tell us, Curtis Mayfield was cornered by by producer Sig Shore and writer Philip Fenty after a performance at New York's Lincoln Center in 1972. They wanted him to pen songs for Superfly. Mayfield took it seriously and wrote sharp character studies for each player.