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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).
Let's Do It Again is a 1975 American action crime comedy film, starring Sidney Poitier and co-starring Bill Cosby and Jimmie Walker [2] among an all-star black cast. The film, directed by Poitier, [2] is about blue-collar workers who decide to rig a boxing match to raise money for their fraternal lodge.
Poitier at the Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C in 1963. Sidney Poitier (1927–2022) was an actor and director. He was best known for his groundbreaking and trailblazing work in the 1950s and 1960s.
Well, Saturday Night will explore the hours leading up to the very first episode. According to the filmmakers, the movie plays out in real time over the course of ninety minutes.
The shame of that approach is that there’s plenty to offer in the physical nuts and bolts of “Saturday Night,” from the texture of the ’70s in Eric Steelberg’s 16mm cinematography to the ...
Live from New York, it's Saturday Night! On Aug. 8, the first trailer debuted for the movie about the 90 minutes that preceded the first-ever episode of Saturday Night Live on Oct. 11, 1975.
It was the third film pairing of Poitier and Cosby, following Uptown Saturday Night (1974) and Let's Do It Again (1975). The films are considered a trilogy, even though the actors play characters with different names in each film. It was also Poitier's last acting role for more than a decade, as he focused his attentions on directing.
Saturday Night is a 2024 American biographical comedy-drama film directed by Jason Reitman, about the night of the 1975 premiere of NBC's Saturday Night, later known as Saturday Night Live. The film stars an ensemble cast portraying the various Saturday Night cast and crew, led by Gabriel LaBelle as the show's creator and producer, Lorne Michaels .