Review of I, Dolemite Part III: Petey Wheatstraw

This 18-minute retrospective doc covers a good deal of interesting and informative ground on the making of the Rudy Ray Moore comedy vehicle "Petey Wheatstraw." Moore points out that there was a black blues singer with a similar name and notes that the story was inspired by a limerick that he came up with on Petey Wheatstraw. Director Cliff Roquemore's sons Bryan and Rokki discuss the small roles that they play in the movie as well as seeing the finished film in the theater. Jimmy Lynch talks about buying 100 dollars worth of watermelons to blow up in the picture and making tombstones out of Styrofoam for the sequence set in a cemetery. Cinematographer Nicholas Josef von Sternberg relates a fun story about shooting at night on top of the Dunbar Hotel, which was reportedly haunted by the ghost of a boxer. Worth a watch for fans of the film.