A Piece of the Action (1977)
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.
- Released
- 1977-10-07
- Genres
- Comedy, Crime
- Runtime
- 135 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Sidney Poitier, Charles Blackwell
- TMDB rating
- 5.8/10 from 24 votes
Cast
- Sidney Poitier as Manny Durrell
- Bill Cosby as Dave Anderson
- James Earl Jones as Joshua Burke
- Denise Nicholas as Lila French
- Hope Clarke as Sarah Thomas
- Tracy Reed as Nikki McLean
- Ja'net DuBois as Nellie Bond
- Sheryl Lee Ralph as Barbara Hanley
- Titos Vandis as Bruno
- Frances Foster as Bea Quitman
- Jason Evers as Ty Shorter
- Marc Lawrence as Louie