| Hangup aka Super Dude | |
| Director: | Henry Hathaway |
| Music: | Tony Camillo |
| Cinematography: | Robert B. Hauser |
| Editing: | Chris Kaeselau |
| Studio: | Brut Productions |
| Runtime: | 94 minutes |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
Hangup, also called Hang Up and later released under the name Super Dude,[1] is a 1974 film directed by Henry Hathaway. It stars William Elliott and Marki Bey.[2] This was the last film directed by Hathaway.[3]
The film falls in the blaxploitation subgenre of "vigilante group cleans up ghetto streets".[4] The film follows a black policeman seeking revenge on the man who got his girlfriend addicted to heroin.[5] The film was distributed by American International Pictures, one of the many films it targeted to the new youth market.[6] Josiah Howard states that the marketing "almost makes it look like a spoof of the genre."[3] Howard described the film as "low budget and flashy, but fast-moving and consistently entertaining."[3] Leonard Maltin wrote "Hathaway has done many fine films, but this, his last, isn't one."[7]