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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...
A Piece of the Action. Roger Ebert October 07, 1977. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. “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.
Summaries. 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 ...
Rent A Piece of the Action on Fandango at Home, Prime Video, or buy it on Fandango at Home, Prime Video. Two con men (Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby) are persuaded by a retired policeman...
- Comedy, Drama
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A Piece of the Action. A pair of con men are obliged to help a social worker set some kids onthe right track. 1,796 2 h 15 min 1977. X-Ray PG.
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.
