Uptown Saturday Night (1974)

Regisseur:

Sidney Poitier

Drehbuchautor:

Richard Wesley (writer)

Premierendatum:

26. Juli 1974 (USA)

Genre:

Komödie

Werbezeile:

They get funny when you mess with their money.

Plot:

Steve Jackson and Wardell Franklin sneak out of their houses to visit Madame Zenobia's: a high-class but illegal nightclub...

Plot Keywords:

African American | Taxicab | Urban | Church | Gambling

Nutzerkommentare:

Poitier's Waterloo, dated tedious, falls apart

Besetzung

Sidney Poitier	...	Steve Jackson
Bill Cosby	...	Wardell Franklin
Harry Belafonte	...	Geechie Dan Beauford
Flip Wilson	...	The Reverend
Richard Pryor	...	Sharp Eye Washington
Calvin Lockhart	...	Silky Slim
Rosalind Cash	...	Sarah Jackson
Roscoe Lee Browne	...	Congressman Lincoln
Paula Kelly	...	Leggy Peggy
Lee Chamberlin	...	Madame Zenobia
Johnny Sekka	...	Geechie's Henchman
Lincoln Kilpatrick	...	Slim's Henchman #1
Ketty Lester	...	Irma Franklin
Don Marshall	...	Slim's Henchman #2
Harold Nicholas	...	Little Seymour Pettigrew

Alternativ:

Samstagnacht im Viertel der Schwarzen (Bundesrepublik Deutschland) (TV title) [de]
Samstagnacht oben in der Stadt (Bundesrepublik Deutschland) [de]

Länge:

104 Min

Produktionsland:

USA

Sprache:

Englisch

Farbe:

Farbe (Technicolor)

Seitenverhältnis:

1.85 : 1

Tonverfahren:

Mono

Altersfreigabe:

UK:PG | USA:PG | Singapore:PG | Australia:PG

Drehorte:

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Firma:

First Artists

Dies und das:

Harry Belafonte's performance is a send-up of Marlon Brando's in The Godfather (1972).

Bezüge zu anderen Titeln:

Verweist auf/spielt an auf/erwähnt Shaft (1971)

Soundtrack:

Uptown Saturday Night

Poitier's Waterloo, dated tedious, falls apart

As an actor Sidney does pull off some funny moments here and there, the problem is that he's not much of a director as he showed over and over again as he buried his career by turning into lazy director from fantastic actor. Cosby and he have some chemistry and there is an okay set up for a movie then just no movie.

Flip Wilson shows up to do an unfunny version of his preacher man, not once but twice in the film. Richard Pryor is funny in a small part.

Scenes just go on forever and as good as Sidney is at some of his own comedy Belefonte needs to be put in a Troama movie with comedy acting like this, and after the half way point it practically becomes Belefonte's movie as his overacted and underfunny mugging pushes Cosby and Poitier out of the way and the movie goes into the toilet. Bad rear projection would be antic chase scene lower the bar again as it wraps up with some sorta Butch and Sundance high fall non gag with dummies.

Really lousy by the time it's over. 70's fashion and garishness top off the unpleasant time.