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| Uptown Saturday Night | |
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 Theatrical release poster by Jack Rickard | |
| Directed by | Sidney Poitier |
| Written by | Richard Wesley |
| Produced by | Melville Tucker |
| Starring | Sidney Poitier Bill Cosby Harry Belafonte Flip Wilson Richard Pryor Paula Kelly Rosalind Cash Roscoe Lee Browne Johnny Sekka Calvin Lockhart |
| Cinematography | Fred J. Koenekamp |
| Edited by | Pembroke J. Herring |
| Music by | Tom Scott |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
Release dates |
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Running time | 104 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $3 million (approx.) |
| Box office | $6.7 million (rentals)[1] |
Uptown Saturday Night is a 1974 American action comedy and crime comedy film, written by Richard Wesley and directed by and starring Sidney Poitier, with Bill Cosby and Harry Belafonte co-starring.[2] Cosby and Poitier teamed up again for Let's Do It Again (1975) and A Piece of the Action (1977). Although Cosby's and Poitier's characters have different names in each film, the three films are considered a trilogy. Uptown Saturday Night premiered on June 15, 1974, at the Criterion Theatre in New York and opened to positive reviews.[3]
The plot of the film revolves around efforts to retrieve a stolen wallet, which contains a winning lottery ticket.
- ^ "All-time Film Rental Champs". Variety. 7 January 1976. p. 44.
- ^ "Uptown Saturday Night". TCM.com. Atlanta: Turner Classic Movies (Time Warner). Retrieved November 6, 2016.
- ^ "Uptown Saturday Night". Los Angeles Sentinel. June 20, 1974.