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Valentine’s Shorts

Sunlight

9m 49s

Directed by Melvin Van Peebles • 1957 • United States

Made in 1957 in San Francisco, SUNLIGHT is about a man who commits a petty crime out of love for a woman and features Melvin’s son Mario Van Peebles as the couple’s baby.

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