A Piece of the Action

"A delightfully delicious dilemma!"

Feb 27 1978 PG 2h 15m
Comedy, Crime

How does retired cop Joshua Burke (James Earl Jones) get two career criminals, Manny Durrell (Sidney Poitier) and Dave Anderson (Bill Cosby), to follow the straight and narrow? Con them into helping juvenile delinquents turn over a new leaf. But how? Burke has never been able to nail the duo, but he uses what he knows of their seedy past to blackmail them into volunteering.

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Plot

Dave Anderson and Manny Durrell are two high-class sneak thieves who have never been caught. Joshua Burke is a retired detective who has enough evidence on the both of them to put them behind bars. Instead, he offers to maintain his silence if the crooks will go straight and do work at a youth center for delinquents. At first, the crooks are reluctant and unwilling (and so are the kids). As time goes by they gain the trust and admiration of the kids and they start to enjoy the job. All goes well until someone out of the past tells them they have to do one last heist...or else.

Written by

Charles Blackwell, Timothy March

Directed by

Sidney Poitier

Cast

Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, James Earl Jones

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Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

Verdon Productions Limited, First Artists

Languages

English, Español

Awards

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