![]() ![]() These are rival gangsters that Steve and Wardell seek out to help find the stolen goods. Then there's Calvin Lockhart as Silky Slim and Harry Belafonte as Geechie Dan Beauford. Also loved many of the "fights" the Cos instigates. That last character has a hilarious encounter with Cosby and Poitier himself cuts loose with some jokes you didn't think would come out of him. When it does you get treated to a hilarious supporting cast like Flip Wilson as the Reverend, Richard Pryor as Sharp Eye Washington, Roscoe Lee Browne as Congressman Lincoln (dig the way he turns a frame of Nixon to that of Malcoln X and then puts on his African digs when he meets his "constituents" Steve and Wardell), Paula Kelly as Lincoln's wife Leggy Peggy who the boys previously met at Zenobia's, and dancer Harold Nicholas as Little Seymour Pettigrew. With a script by Richard Wesley, Poitier shows some amusing touches though it does take a while for the story, about getting robbed as the two leads spend the night at an illegal gambling joint called Zenobia's before Steve finds out his winning lottery ticket was among the stolen items, to kick into gear. As Steve's wife Sarah, Rosalind Cash has some nice, and partially racy, dialogue with Poitier but Ketty Lester seems wasted as Wardell's spouse Irma. Instead of the perfect professional characters superstar Sidney had been playing for years, here he's just a working class man named Steve Jackson who's pals with Cosby's Wardell Franklin. ![]() This was also Poitier's third directorial assignment after Buck and the Preacher and A Warm December. This was the first of three buddy comedies that paired Sidney Poitier with Bill Cosby. ![]() In reviewing movies in chronological order that featured African-Americans for Black History Month, we're now at 1974 with Uptown Saturday Night. Reviewed by tavm 8 / 10 Uptown Saturday Night was an enjoyable first teaming of Poitier and Cosby ![]()
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