Uptown Saturday Night (1974)
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71% of critics liked it
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81% of users liked it
(1,257 ratings)
Uptown Saturday Night is a delightful comedy directed by and starring Sidney Poitier. Steve Jackson (Sidney Poitier) is a factory worker. One evening, when boredom gets the best of him, Steve and his pal Wardell (Bill Cosby) decide to go to an underground gambling club to have some fun. While they… More Uptown Saturday Night is a delightful comedy directed by and starring Sidney Poitier. Steve Jackson (Sidney Poitier) is a factory worker. One evening, when boredom gets the best of him, Steve and his pal Wardell (Bill Cosby) decide to go to an underground gambling club to have some fun. While they are there the place is held-up and Steve's wallet is stolen. When Steve and Wardell learn that the wallet contains a winning lottery ticket, the friends go on a desperate search to find it. Shape Eye Washington (Richard Prior), an incompetent private eye, is enlisted to aid them in their search through the criminal underworld where they come up against Geechie Dan Beauford (Harry Belafonte) the mobster who runs the town. Belafonte, in a hilarious parody of Marlon Brando in The Godfather, steals the show. The movie was a huge success and led to two sequels, Let's Do It Again and A Piece of the Action, both also directed by Poitier. ~ Linda Rasmussen, Rovi
- Directed By
- Sidney Poitier
- Written By
- Richard Wesley
- Genres
- Classics, Comedy
PG,
- In Theaters
- Jun 16, 1974 Wide
- On DVD
- Jan 13, 2004
- Studio
- WARNER BROTHERS PICTURES
Critic Reviews
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Steve Crum, Video-Reviewmaster.com
Very dated humor with youngish Cosby and Poitier...who directs OK.
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John J. Puccio, Movie Metropolis
...harmless enough, flimsy and almost forgettable entertainment but easy going down.
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Frank Ochieng, TheWorldJournal.com
An uproarious urban comedy that's sure to cater to the crowd. Poitier and Cosby make for a riotous duo in this flipppant farce.
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Brian Mckay, eFilmCritic.com
Great buddy chemistry between Cosby and Poitier make this a 70's classic.
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Cast
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Sidney Poitier
as Steve Jackson
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Bill Cosby
as Wardell Franklin
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Harry Belafonte
as Geechie Dan Beauford
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Calvin Lockhart
as Silky Slim
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Flip Wilson
as The Reverend
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Richard Pryor
as Sharp Eye Washington
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Rosalind Cash
as Sarah Jackson
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Roscoe Lee Browne
as Congressman Lincoln
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Lee Chamberlin
as Madame Zenobia
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Paula Kelly
as Leggy Peggy
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Lincoln Kilpatrick
as Slim's Henchman #1
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Don Marshall
as Slim's Henchman #2
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Harold Nicholas
as Little Seymour
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Johnny Sekka
as Geechie's Henchman
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Ketty Lester
as Irma Franklin
