The powerless Reardon then watches as Priest stalks off, giving the policemen one final glare before driving off to join Georgia. After Priest leaves with the cash, Eddie betrays him by phoning the lieutenant. Scatter gives Priest a packet of information on Reardon and his family. O'Neal reprised his role as Youngblood Priest in the 1973 film Super Fly T.N.T., which he also directed. He had done several fashion shows prior to Charles McGregor, who plays Fat Freddie, was released from prison before the film's production.
Although the timid Freddie abhors violence, he agrees and accompanies a member of Priest's "family" of lower-level dealers to commit the robbery.
Scatter is captured by the corrupt policemen, who give him a fatal overdose of drugs. One day, Priest confronts Fat Freddie, one of his clients, about money that Freddie owes and threatens to force Freddie's wife into prostitution unless he robs a competitor. “Unfortunately, even today, we don’t have Producer Sig Shore directed a second sequel, The Return of Superfly, released in 1990, with Nathan Purdee as Priest. The soundtrack alone generated about $5 million in profits – one of the first film soundtracks to earn such a sizable return – primarily from the biggest singles "Super Fly" and "Freddie's Dead". Les Dunham was the most famous among them, and when a pimp named “KC” lent his Dunham-customized ’71 to the producers of a film called Superfly, it turned the “pimpmobile” into a national phenomenon. is an actor, known for Across 110th Street (1972), Super Fly (1972) and That's the Way of the World (1975). Additionally, the end credits on the original film release and video cassette, differ from the DVD. Both enraged and scared, Priest gives the information on Reardon and an envelope of cash to two mafia men and takes out a $100,000 contract on "the Man's" life.
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Priest explains that he hired contract killers to murder Reardon and his entire family should anything happen to him.