A Piece of the Action

Storyline

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.

• Released

  1977

• Runtime

  2h 15min

• Director

  Sidney Poitier

Genre

ComedyCrime

• Status

  Released

• Language

  English

• Production

  First Artists, Verdon Productions Limited, Warner Bros. Pictures