A Piece of the Action

Name: A Piece of the Action
Director: Sidney Poitier
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Released: 1977-10-07
Duration: 135 min
Rating: 5.792
Cast: Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, James Earl Jones, Denise Nicholas, Hope Clarke

“A delightfully delicious dilemma!”

5.8(24)PG19772h 15mEN

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Directed by Sidney Poitier

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.