UPTOWN SATURDAY NIGHT (DVD) DVD

Uptown Saturday Night
Uptown Saturday Night is a delightful comedy directed by and starring Sidney Poitier. Steve Jackson (Sidney Poitier) is a factory worker. One evening, when boredom gets the best of him, Steve and his pal Wardell (Bill Cosby) decide to go to an underground gambling club to have some fun. While they are there the place is held-up and Steve's wallet is stolen. When Steve and Wardell learn that the wallet contains a winning lottery ticket, the friends go on a desperate search to find it. Shape Eye Washington (Richard Prior), an incompetent private eye, is enlisted to aid them in their search through the criminal underworld where they come up against Geechie Dan Beauford (Harry Belafonte) the mobster who runs the town. Belafonte, in a hilarious parody of Marlon Brando in The Godfather, steals the show. The movie was a huge success and led to two sequels, Let's Do It Again and A Piece of the Action, both also directed by Poitier. ~ Linda Rasmussen, All Movie Guide

Cast Sidney Poitier as Steve Jackson Bill Cosby as Wardell Franklin Harry Belafonte as Geechie Dan Beauford Calvin Lockhart as Silky Slim Flip Wilson as The Reverend Richard Pryor as Sharp Eye Washington Rosalind Cash as Sarah Jackson

Crew Charles C. Washburn - First Assistant Director Sidney Poitier - Director Pembroke J. Herring - Editor Tom Scott - Composer (Music Score) Morgan Ames - Songwriter Tom Scott - Songwriter Monty Westmore - Makeup Alfred Sweeney - Production Designer Fred Koenekamp - Cinematographer Melville Tucker - Producer Robert de Vestel - Set Designer Charles Spurgeon - Special Effects Harry W. Tetrick - Sound/Sound Designer Frank C. Regula - Sound/Sound Designer Richard Wesley - Screenwriter

Uptown Saturday Night
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General Specifications: Language Options: English Subtitle Options: English, French, Spanish Sound Processing: DD1: Dolby Digital Mono Additional Features: cc Commentary by Dr. Todd Boyd, USC professor of Cinema and Television and author of "Am I Back Enough for You: Popular Culture from the 'Hood and Beyond'" "The Lowdown on Uptown": A retrospective featuring James Earl Jones, Denise Nicholas, Jimmie Walker, Julius Harris, filmmaker Oscar Williams, screenwriter Richard Wesley, New York Press critic Armond White, USC professor of Cinema and Television Dr. Todd Boyd, and fashion designer Ron Finley Theatrical trailer Subtitles: English, Français, & Español MPAA Rating: PG DVD Discs Included: 1 DVD Sides: 1 DVD DVD Region Code: 1 Content Length: 104 min   DVD Chapters: Side #1 -- 1. Credits [4:05] 2. Loving Memories [3:35] 3. Name the Time [3:09] 4. Madame Zenobia's [4:49] 5. Leggy Peggy [4:43] 6. Bandits [5:21] 7. No Joy Juice [2:49] 8. Dream Woman? [2:09] 9. Winning Ticket...Lost! [2:43] 10. Suspicious Character [1:50] 11. Sharp Eye Washington [6:11] 12. The Congressman... [4:25] 13. ...And His Beloved Wife [2:36] 14. The Waldorf Crowd [3:24] 15. Little Seymour [5:38] 16. Geechie Dan [4:01] 17. Shooting Spree [3:22] 18. Slim Send Them [2:55] 19. Wardell's Version [5:10] 20. Silky and Greechie [4:43] 21. Churchgoers [3:42] 22. Loose Lips [4:30] 23. Picnickers and Pilferers [3:42] 24. Police Presence [5:40] 25. Hammered [4:07] 26. Leap for the Loot [1:44] 27. Plans and Cast List [2:53]