A Piece of the Action
A delightfully delicious dilemma!
5.8(21) 1977-10-07 135 minComedyCrime
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.
DirectorSidney Poitier
ScreenplayCharles Blackwell
Original Music ComposerCurtis Mayfield
ProducerMelville Tucker
Cast & characters
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
Ernest Lee Thomas
as John
Eric Laneuville
as Gerald
Estelle Evans
as Alberta Ballard
Bill Walker
as Clair Hurst
Angus Scrimm
as Monk
Tamu Blackwell
as Cheryl
James Wheaton
as Voisin Waiter
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Edward Love
as Willie Mangum
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Bryan O'Dell
as Roscoe
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Dianne Oyama Dixon
as Denise Orville (as Dianne Dixon)
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Larry Beecham
as Percy 'Bubba' Watkins
Karole Selmon
as Sheila Moran
