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Feb 27, 1978 · A Piece of the Action: Directed by Sidney Poitier. With Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, James Earl Jones, Denise Nicholas. A retired Chicago cop blackmails two rich thieves into "volunteering" to help juvenile delinquents change paths.
A Piece of the Action is a 1977 American crime comedy film directed by and starring Sidney Poitier and co-starring Bill Cosby. It was the third film pairing of Poitier and Cosby, following Uptown Saturday Night (1974) and Let's Do It Again (1975).
Sidney Poitier directed and stars in this comedy-drama caper, along with Bill Cosby and James Earl Jones. Dave Anderson and Manny Durrell are career criminal...
Feb 4, 2024 · This is the last of 3 movies co-starring Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby,. All were directed by Poitier. The first two were "Uptown Saturday Night" and "Let"s ...
A Piece of the Action (1977) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Timothy March. “A Piece Of the Action," which stars Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby as successful gangsters blackmailed into helping a ghetto job-training program, is well intentioned but lead-footed.
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A retired Chicago cop blackmails two rich thieves into "volunteering" to help juvenile delinquents change paths. Dave Anderson and Manny Durrell are two high-class sneak thieves who have never been caught. Joshua Burke is a retired detective who has enough evidence on both of them to put them behind bars, but instead he offers to maintain his ...
Screenplay. Timothy March. Story. How does retired cop Joshua Burke (James Earl Jones) get two career criminals, Manny Durrell (Sidney Poitier) and Dave Anderson (Bill Cosby), to follow the straight and narrow? Con them into helping juvenile delinquents turn over a new leaf.
A Piece of the Action (1977) Movie Info Synopsis Two con men (Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby) are persuaded by a retired policeman (James Earl Jones) to volunteer their services to a ghetto youth...
- Comedy, Drama
