Uptown Saturday Night

For the Camp Lo album, see Uptown Saturday Night (album).
Uptown Saturday Night
Theatrical release poster by Jack Rickard
Directed bySidney Poitier
Written byRichard Wesley
Produced byMelville Tucker
StarringSidney Poitier
Bill Cosby
Harry Belafonte
Flip Wilson
Richard Pryor
Paula Kelly
Rosalind Cash
Roscoe Lee Browne
Johnny Sekka
Calvin Lockhart
CinematographyFred J. Koenekamp
Edited byPembroke J. Herring
Music byTom Scott
Production
company
Distributed byWarner Bros.
Release dates
  • June 15, 1974 (1974-06-15) (New York)
  • July 26, 1974 (1974-07-26) (United States)
Running time
104 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
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 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.

  1. ^ "All-time Film Rental Champs". Variety. 7 January 1976. p. 44.
  2. ^ "Uptown Saturday Night". TCM.com. Atlanta: Turner Classic Movies (Time Warner). Retrieved November 6, 2016.
  3. ^ "Uptown Saturday Night". Los Angeles Sentinel. June 20, 1974.