Uptown Saturday Night (1974)
They get funny when you mess with their money.
104 min
Two blue-collar buddies search the underworld for a winning lottery ticket lost in a nightclub holdup.
- Release date
- July 26, 1974
- Country of origin
- United States
- Music
- Tom Scott
- Budget
- $3,000,000
- Box office
- $6,700,000
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Trailer
Cast
- Sidney Poitier as Steve Jackson
- Bill Cosby as Wardell Franklin
- Harry Belafonte as Geechie Dan Beauford
- Flip Wilson as The Reverend
- Richard Pryor as Sharp Eye Washington
- Calvin Lockhart as Silky Slim
- Rosalind Cash as Sarah Jackson
- Roscoe Lee Browne as Congressman Lincoln
- Paula Kelly as Leggy Peggy
- Lee Chamberlin as Madame Zenobia
- Johnny Sekka as Geechie's Henchman
- Lincoln Kilpatrick as Slim's Henchman #1
- Ketty Lester as Irma
- Don Marshall as Slim's Henchman #2
- Harold Nicholas as Little Seymour
- Jophery C. Brown as Geechie Dan's Henchman (uncredited)
- Juanita Brown as Congressman Lincoln's Receptionist (uncredited)
- Morris Buchanan as Waldorf Patron (uncredited)
- Richard L. Duran as Waldorf Patron (uncredited)
- Paul Harris as Police Officer (uncredited)
- Stevie Mack as Church Member (uncredited)
- Earl Maynard as Waldorf Bartender (uncredited)
- Ray Parker Jr. as Ray (uncredited)
- Stack Pierce as Gambler in Tuxedo (uncredited)
- Cyril Poitier as Rock (uncredited)
- George Reynolds as Big Percy (uncredited)
Crew
- Sidney Poitier · Director
- Richard Wesley · Writer
- Melville Tucker · Producer
- Tom Scott · Composer
- Fred J. Koenekamp · Cinematographer
- Pembroke J. Herring · Editor
- Alfred Sweeney · Production designer