Uptown Saturday night [dvd] / Warner Bros., First Artists presents ; produced by Melville Tucker ; screenplay by Richard Wesley ; directed by Sidney Poitier.
Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, Harry Belafonte, Flip Wilson, Richard Pryor, Paula Kelly, Rosalind Cash, Roscoe Lee Browne, Johnny Sekka, Calvin Lockhart. Originally released as a motion picture in 1974. Special features: commentary by Dr. Todd Boyd, USC professor of cinema and television and author of "Am I Black Enough For You"; popular culture from the "Hood and Beyond"; the lowdown on uptown; a retrospective featuring James Earl Jones, Denise Nicholas, Jimmie Walker, Julius Harris, filmmaker Oscar Williams, screenwriter Richard Wesley, New York Press critic Armond White; theatrical trailer.
Summary:
Two men try to recover a winning lottery ticket from the underworld.
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