Petey Wheatstraw
1977
Have No Fear, It's the Comedy Smash of the Year!
Directed by Cliff Roquemore
User Rating
Intensity
Petey Wheatstraw is a candidate to become the devil's son-in-law. The storyline is a scaffolding on which Rudy Ray Moore's standup humor can be unfolded. Beginning life as the afterbirth to a watermelon, the young Wheatstraw becomes a martial artist, but is unable to best the evil comedy team of Leroy and Skillet, who also indulge in wholesale murder. Satan restores the comedians' victims to life, and charges Petey with the task of marrying his clock-stoppingly ugly daughter to give him a grandchild. When Petey attempts to default on the deal, he is pursued by the devil's henchmen.
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- Director
- Cliff Roquemore
- Written by
- Cliff Roquemore
- Produced by
- Theodore Toney
- Composer
- Nat Dove
- Cinematographer
- Nicholas Josef von Sternberg
- Editors
- Cecelia Hall, Jack Tucker
- Origin country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 39m
- Language
- en
- Rating
- R
- TMDB
- 5.6/10 (43 votes)
- IMDb
- 6.1/10 (1,641 votes)
Cast
Rudy Ray Moore
Petey
Jimmy Lynch
Jimmy
Leroy Daniels
Leroy
Ernest Mayhand
Skillet
Ebony Wright
Nell / Devil's Daughter
Steve Gallon
Steve
G. Tito Shaw
Lucipher
Ted Clemmons
Ted
Marvin Jones
Scarface Willie
George Mireless
Mr. White
Bryan L. Roquemore
Larry
Clifford Roquemore II
Baby Petey
Brian Breye
Bantu
Rose Williams
Petey's Mother
Sy Richardson
Petey's Father
Danny Poinson
Young Petey
A. Jay Malone
Pastor
Rodney Lockhart
Boy Fighting Young Petey
