Director: Sidney Poitier
Uptown Saturday Night
Uptown Saturday Night was my most favorite out of all the ten movies I viewed. Not only did Sir Sidney Poitier star in the film, but he also directed it. The movie features him along with the talented Bill Cosby before his jello pudding and Cosby Show days.
Sidney Poitier's character is a blue-collar worker at a steel mill, has just begun a two-weeks-long vacation. He is convinced by his friend Wardell Franklin, played by Cosby, to go to a party that Saturday night at Madam Zenobia's, an uptown nightclub. While the two are at the party, the club is robbed. The masked bandits force the patrons to strip to their underwear, then steal their money and jewelery, including Steve's wallet. The following day, Steve is at home and reading his newspaper when he learns he has won the lottery. However, he realizes that the lottery ticket was in the wallet that was stolen from him, and Steve and Wardell spend the remainder of the film tracking down his wallet by consulting with crooked politicians, fake detectives, con-artists, and underworld crime bosses.
It is an action packed comedy which will have you on the edge of your seat wondering what situation the characters will get into next. Another well known actor in the movie is Harry Belafonte who is depicted as a mobster who runs the town and is in my opinion, a hilarious paradoy of Marlon Brando in The Godfather. It is said that Will Smith and Denzel Washington will pair up to release a remake of this classic movie.
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