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Uptown Saturday Night is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Sidney Poitier released in USA on 26 july 1974 with Sidney Poitier
Uptown Saturday Night (1974)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 26 july 1974
Length 1h44
Directed by Sidney Poitier
OriginUSA
Themes Buddy films
Rating65%
Uptown Saturday Night is a 1974 comedy film written by Richard Wesley, and directed by Sidney Poitier, who also stars in this film, along with Bill Cosby and Harry Belafonte. Cosby and Poitier teamed up again for Let's Do It Again (1975) and A Piece of the Action (1977). Although their characters have different names in each film, the three films are considered to be a trilogy. It opened to positive reviews.
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Steve Jackson (Sidney Poitier), a blue-collar worker at a steel mill, has just begun a two-weeks-long vacation. He is convinced by his friend Wardell Franklin (Bill Cosby) to go to a party that Saturday night at Madam Zenobia's, an uptown nightclub.Actors
Sidney Poitier
(Steve Jackson)
Bill Cosby
(Wardell Franklin)
Calvin Lockhart
(Silky Slim)
Harry Belafonte
(Geechie Dan Beauford)
Flip Wilson
(The Reverend)
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