- Let's Do It Again (1975 film)
Infobox_Film
name = Let's Do It Again
imdb_id = 0073282
writer =Timothy March Richard Wesley
starring =Sidney Poitier Bill Cosby
director =Sidney Poitier
producer = Melville Tucker
distributor =Warner Bros.
released =October 11 , 1975
runtime = 110 min.
language = English
music =
awards =
budget =
preceded_by = "Uptown Saturday Night "
followed_by = "A Piece of the Action"|"Let's Do It Again" is a 1975 film starring
Sidney Poitier andBill Cosby . Poitier also directed. This was the second film pairing of Poitier and Cosby following "Uptown Saturday Night ". Cosby and Poitier teamed up again for "A Piece of the Action" in 1977. Although their characters have different names in each film, the three Poitier-Cosby films are considered to be atrilogy .Calvin Lockhart andLee Chamberlin also appeared in "Uptown Saturday Night" as different characters.Plot
Set in Atlanta, it follows Clyde Williams (Poitier) and Billy Foster (Cosby) as a pair of blue-collar workers who are trying to raise funds for the Brothers and Sisters of Shaka. They decide to rig a boxing match in New Orleans. They use hypnotism to convince Bootney Farnsworth (Jimmie Walker) that he is a highly skilled prize fighter. He fights and wins, and Williams and Foster cleanup after betting on him, the underdog. They return home, and all is fine until the gangsters who lost money betting on the other guy figure out the scam and come to Atlanta, to get the pair to do it again...or be killed.
Unable to enter Farnsworth's training room to hypnotize him again, Williams and Foster decide to bet on the match being a draw, and place bets with both gangster groups. They then enter his opponent's training room and successfully hypnotize him. Both fighters end up simultaneously knocking each other out, and Williams and Foster are able to collect their bets before the gangsters discover what happened.
Cast
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Sidney Poitier — Clyde Williams
*Bill Cosby — Billy Foster
*Calvin Lockhart — Biggie Smalls
*John Amos — Kansas City Mack
*Jimmie Walker — Bootney Farnsworth
*Ossie Davis — Elder Johnson
*Denise Nicholas — Beth Foster
*Lee Chamberlin — Dee Dee Williams
*Mel Stewart — EllisonWhen the film premiered, John Amos and Jimmie Walker were starring as father and son in the
CBS sitcom "Good Times ".Influence in popular culture
The late East Coast rap artist
The Notorious B.I.G. took his alias, Biggie Smalls, from Calvin Lockhart's character in this film. However, the alias could not be used as his name due to ownership issues.Remake
In 2002, it was announced that
Will Smith and hisproduction company ,Overbrook Entertainment , had secured the rights to the trilogy for remakes to star Smith and to be distributed byWarner Bros. Smith stated that he hoped to getEddie Murphy ,Martin Lawrence and other famousAfrican-American stars to be in the films. [ [http://www.vh1.com/artists/news/1453124/03282002/smith_will.jhtml VH1.com : Will Smith : Will Smith Secures Rights To Sidney Poitier/ Bill Cosby Flicks - Rhapsody Music Downloads ] ] [ [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072351/news Uptown Saturday Night (1974) - News ] ]References
External links
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