Let's Do It Again (1975 film)

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Let's Do It Again

Directed by	Sidney Poitier
Produced by	Melville Tucker
Written by	Timothy March Richard Wesley
Starring	Sidney Poitier Bill Cosby
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date(s)	October 11, 1975
Running time	110 min.
Language	English
Preceded by	Uptown Saturday Night
Followed by	A Piece of the Action
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Let's Do It Again is a 1975 film starring Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby. Poitier also directed. This was the second film pairing of Poitier and Cosby following Uptown Saturday Night. 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.

[edit] Cast

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 — Ellison

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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 a trilogy.

Calvin Lockhart and Lee Chamberlin also appeared in Uptown Saturday Night as different characters.

When the film premiered, John Amos and Jimmie Walker were starring as father and son in the CBS sitcom Good Times.

In 2002, it was announced that Will Smith and his production company, Overbrook Entertainment, had secured the rights to the trilogy for remakes to star Smith and to be distributed by Warner Bros.. Smith stated that he hoped to get Eddie Murphy, Martin Lawrence and other famous African-American stars to be in the films.[1][2]