A Piece of the Action

1977 "A delightfully delicious dilemma!"

A Piece of the Action

6.4 | 2h15m | PG | en | Comedy

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.

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6.4 | 2h15m | PG | en | Comedy , Crime

Synopsis

Cast

Sidney Poitier ,Bill Cosby ,James Earl Jones

Director

Alfred Sweeney

Producted By

Warner Bros. Pictures , First Artists

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Cast

Sidney Poitier

as Manny Durrell

[2017] I Am Not Your Negro [2012] Sing Your Song [2007] Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project [1999] The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn [1998] David and Lisa [1997] The Jackal [1997] Mandela and de Klerk [1995] Children of the Dust [1995] Children of the Dust

Bill Cosby

as Dave Anderson

[2022] We Need to Talk About Cosby [2019] I Am Richard Pryor [2014] B.B. King: The Life of Riley [2013] Bill Cosby: Far From Finished [2013] After Newtown: Guns in America [2012] Goose [2009] Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy [2008] Miles Davis: Kind of Blue [2007] Cutting Edge Comedians of the '60s & '70s

James Earl Jones

as Joshua Burke

[2021] Coming 2 America [2019] The Lion King [2019] Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage [2018] Warning Shot [2015] The Lion Guard: Return of the Roar [2014] The Angriest Man in Brooklyn [2013] Milius [2013] Gimme Shelter [2012] Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey