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A Piece of the Action

A delightfully delicious dilemma!

Released PG 135 min 6.4/10 Votes: 1481

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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Movie

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Genre:

Comedy, Crime

Release:

1977-10-07

Year:

2024

Country:

United States of America

Language:

English

Companies:

First Artists, Verdon Productions Limited, Warner Bros. Pictures

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