Plot Synopsis

Based on Joshuah Bearman's Playboy magazine article of the same name, THE BIG CIGAR is a six-episode limited series that tells the extraordinary, hilarious, almost-too-good-to-be-true story of how Black Panther leader Huey P. Newton relied on his best friend, Bert Schneider, the Hollywood producer behind EASY RIDER, to elude a nationwide manhunt and escape to Cuba while being pursued into exile by the FBI.