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Watermelon Man is a 1970 comedy-drama film directed by Melvin Van Peebles and based on the book The Night the Sun Came out on Happy Hollow Lane by Herman Raucher.

Written by Herman Raucher and distributed by Columbia Pictures Corporation, it tells the story of a typical 1960s, somewhat bigoted white man named Jeff Gerber who wakes up one morning to find that he has become black.

The role is played by African-American actor Godfrey Cambridge, who plays the role in "whiteface" (white makeup) for the first few minutes of the film, and then goes without the makeup when his character changes into a black man. Studio execs had originally thought of casting a white actor for the part, but since the character would be black for a great majority of the film, Van Peebles vetoed the decision.

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