--- title: 'Uptown Saturday Night (1974)' type: 'film' director: 'Sidney Poitier' released: '1974-01-01' runtime_minutes: 104 countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/uptown-saturday-night-1974' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072351/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Uptown Saturday Night (1974) 1974 · 104 min · United States ## Synopsis 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. 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 a trilogy. Uptown Saturday Night premiered on June 15, 1974, at the Criterion Theatre in New York and opened to positive reviews. ## Credits - **Director:** [Sidney Poitier](https://cinepixo.com/people/sidney-poitier) - **Screenplay:** [Richard Wesley](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-wesley) - **Original Music Composer:** [Tom Scott](https://cinepixo.com/people/tom-scott) - **Director of Photography:** [Fred Koenekamp](https://cinepixo.com/people/fred-koenekamp) - **Editor:** [Pembroke J. Herring](https://cinepixo.com/people/pembroke-j-herring) ## Cast - [Paula Kelly](https://cinepixo.com/people/paula-kelly) - [Sidney Poitier](https://cinepixo.com/people/sidney-poitier) - [Bill Cosby](https://cinepixo.com/people/bill-cosby) - [Lincoln Kilpatrick](https://cinepixo.com/people/lincoln-kilpatrick) - [Harry Belafonte](https://cinepixo.com/people/harry-belafonte) - [Johnny Sekka](https://cinepixo.com/people/johnny-sekka) - [Richard Pryor](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-pryor) - [Roscoe Lee Browne](https://cinepixo.com/people/roscoe-lee-browne) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/uptown-saturday-night-1974 Film facts: Wikidata (Q7899447); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.