Direction: Sidney Poitier

Direction Sidney Poitier

Cast Gene Wilder · Richard Pryor · Georg Stanford Brown · JoBeth Williams

Plot New Yorkers, Skip Donahue and Harry Monroe, have no jobs and no prospects. They decide to flee the city and find work elsewhere, and land jobs as woodpeckers to promote...

Direction Sidney Poitier

Cast Sidney Poitier · Harry Belafonte · Ruby Dee · Cameron Mitchell

Plot Sidney Poitier made his directing debut with this 1972 action comedy with an edge to it. Made at the height of the Black Power movement in America, the film has...

Direction Sidney Poitier

Cast Sidney Poitier · Bill Cosby · Calvin Lockhart · John Amos

Plot Clyde Williams and Billy Foster are a couple of blue-collar workers in Atlanta who have promised to raise funds for their fraternal order, the Brothers and Sisters of Shaka. However,...

Direction Sidney Poitier

Cast Gene Wilder · Gilda Radner · Kathleen Quinlan · Richard Widmark

Direction Sidney Poitier

Cast Sidney Poitier · Ester Anderson · Yvette Curtis · George Baker

Plot Dr. Matt Younger and his daughter arrive for a month-long visit to London for dirt-bike racing and unexpectedly, a new romance for the widowed Dr. Younger. His new love interest...

Direction Sidney Poitier

Cast Bill Cosby · Denise Nicholas · Kimberly Russell · Christine Ebersole

Plot Elliot (Bill Cosby) is a widower with three children, struggling to make ends meet. He is in a horrible car accident and goes into a coma, but during tha period...

Direction Sidney Poitier

Cast John Scott Clough · Don Franklin · Tamara Mark · Tracy Silver

Plot Eight young people from Ohio, who are dancers, come to New York City to compete in a major talent competition. But, when they get there, they learn that they have...

Direction Sidney Poitier

Cast Sidney Poitier · Bill Cosby · Harry Belafonte · Flip Wilson

Plot Steve Jackson and Wardell Franklin sneak out of their houses to visit Madame Zenobia's: a high-class but illegal nightclub. During their visit, however, the place is robbed and they are...

Direction Sidney Poitier

Cast Sidney Poitier · Bill Cosby · James Earl Jones · Denise Nicholas

Plot Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby are two slick con men who are talked into helping out a group of troubled teens at a community center. James Earl Jones is the...