Mean is a 1977 action crime film written and directed by Fred Williamson.

Mean while filming The Inglorious Bastards by taking the camera equipment and crew every weekend, without the producers’ knowledge.

He wrote the story Monday to Friday and shot on the weekends what he had written that week.

[5][6] The Ohio Players appear in the film as themselves and offer to play a song they have written for Fred Williamson's character Mr.

Mean" from the eponymous soundtrack album as the opening credits to the film roll.