For the Camp Lo album, see Uptown Saturday Night (album).
Uptown Saturday Night
Theatrical release poster by Jack Rickard
Directed by
Sidney Poitier
Written by
Richard Wesley
Produced by
Melville Tucker
Starring
Sidney Poitier Bill Cosby Harry Belafonte Flip Wilson Richard Pryor Paula Kelly Rosalind Cash Roscoe Lee Browne Johnny Sekka Calvin Lockhart
Cinematography
Fred J. Koenekamp
Edited by
Pembroke J. Herring
Music by
Tom Scott
Production company
First Artists
Distributed by
Warner Bros.
Release dates
June 15, 1974 (1974-06-15) (New York)
July 26, 1974 (1974-07-26) (United States)
Running time
104 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$3 million (approx.)
Box office
$6.7 million (rentals)[1]
Uptown Saturday Night is a 1974 American action comedy and crime comedy film, written by Richard Wesley and directed by and starring Sidney Poitier, with Bill Cosby and Harry Belafonte co-starring.[2] Cosby and Poitier teamed up again for Let's Do It Again (1975) and A Piece of the Action (1977). Although Cosby's and Poitier's characters have different names in each film, the three films are considered to be a trilogy. Uptown Saturday Night premiered on June 15, 1974 at the Criterion Theatre in New York and opened to positive reviews.[3]
The plot of the film revolves around efforts to retrieve a stolen wallet, which contains a winning lottery ticket.
^"All-time Film Rental Champs". Variety. 7 January 1976. p. 44.
^"Uptown Saturday Night". TCM.com. Atlanta: Turner Classic Movies (Time Warner). Retrieved November 6, 2016.
^"Uptown Saturday Night". Los Angeles Sentinel. June 20, 1974.
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