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A Piece of the Action (1977)
Directed by Sidney Poitier
“A delightfully delicious dilemma!”
Comedy, Crime · 2h 15m
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. But how? Burke has never been able to nail the duo, but he uses what he knows of their seedy past to blackmail them into volunteering.
Cast
Sidney Poitier
Manny Durrell
Bill Cosby
Dave Anderson
James Earl Jones
Joshua Burke
Denise Nicholas
Lila French
Hope Clarke
Sarah Thomas
Tracy Reed
Nikki McLean
Ja'net DuBois
Nellie Bond
Sheryl Lee Ralph
Barbara Hanley
Titos Vandis
Bruno
Frances Foster
Bea Quitman
Jason Evers
Ty Shorter
Marc Lawrence
Louie
Crew
- Director
- Sidney Poitier
- Screenplay
- Charles Blackwell
- Director of Photography
- Donald M. Morgan
- Original Music Composer
- Curtis Mayfield
- Editor
- Pembroke J. Herring
- Producer
- Melville Tucker
Details
- Release date
- 1977-10-07
- Runtime
- 2h 15m
- Genres
- Comedy, Crime
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English, Spanish
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- First Artists, Verdon Productions Limited, Warner Bros. Pictures