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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.
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- Crime, Comedy
- Sidney Poitier
- 1978-02-27
A Piece of the Action: Directed by James Komack. With William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Anthony Caruso. The crew of the Enterprise struggles to cope with a planet of imitative people who have modeled their society on 1920s gangsters.
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- Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
- James Komack
- 1968-01-12
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).
Plot. The Federation starship USS Enterprise has been ordered to Sigma Iotia II, where the exploratory vessel Horizon was reported missing 100 years earlier. The ship receives a message from Bela Oxmyx, a native Iotian, who promises information about the Horizon and invites the crew down to the planet.
Roger Ebert October 07, 1977. Tweet. Now streaming on: Rent. 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.
Lila French. Hope Clarke. Sarah Thomas. In Theaters At Home TV Shows. Two con men (Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby) are persuaded by a retired policeman (James Earl Jones) to volunteer their services to...
- Comedy, Drama
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