Sidney Poitier Wife Lets Do It Again

1975 pic by Sidney Poitier

Let'due south Do Information technology Again
Theatrical release affiche past Jack Rickard
Directed past	Sidney Poitier
Screenplay by	Richard Wesley
Story by	Timothy March
Produced past	Melville Tucker
Starring	Sidney Poitier Bill Cosby Calvin Lockhart John Amos Julius Harris Denise Nicholas Lee Chamberlin Mel Stewart Jimmie Walker Ossie Davis
Cinematography	Donald M. Morgan
Edited past	Pembroke J. Herring
Music by	Curtis Mayfield
Color process	Technicolor
Product companies	Beginning Artists Verdon Productions Limited
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date	October 11, 1975 (1975-x-xi)
Running fourth dimension	113 minutes
Country	U.s.
Language	English
Box role	$xi.eight one thousand thousand (rentals) [ane]

Allow'southward Do Information technology Again is a 1975 American action crime comedy film directed by and starring Sidney Poitier and co-starring Bill Cosby and Jimmie Walker,^[2] amid an all-star blackness cast. The film, directed by Poitier,^[two] is most blue-collar workers who determine to rig a battle match to enhance money for their fraternal lodge. The song of the same proper noun by The Staple Singers was featured as the opening and catastrophe theme of the movie, and as a result, the two have go commonly associated with each other. The production companies include Verdon Productions and The First Artists Production Company, Ltd., and distributed by Warner Bros. The movie was filmed in 2 cities, Atlanta, Georgia and New Orleans, Louisiana, where about of the plot takes place.^[three] This was the 2nd pic pairing of Poitier and Cosby following Uptown Sabbatum Night, and followed by A Piece of the Activeness (1977). Of the three, Let'south Do Information technology Over again has been the well-nigh successful both critically and commercially. Calvin Lockhart and Lee Chamberlin also appeared in Uptown Sabbatum Night. Co-ordinate to the American Film Plant, Let'due south Do It Once again is non a sequel to Uptown Saturday Night.^[3]

Plot [edit]

Ii friends, Baton Foster (Bill Cosby) and Clyde Williams (Sidney Poitier), demand to quickly notice a manner to enhance funds for their fraternal society, the Sons and Daughters of Shaka.^[4] It is incumbent on Billy to detect the money because he is the treasurer of the struggling lodge. After Billy convinces Clyde that it is their best and quickest option, they make up one's mind to bring back a successful money-making scheme, hence the title. Clyde'due south special ability of hypnosis allows the two to prepare boxing matches and then maximize profits past going all in on the underdog. Billy and Clyde take their talents to New Orleans to rig a boxing lucifer. This is where Jimmie Walker'south character, Bootney Farnsworth, comes into the fold. Bootney is lanky boxer that is overwhelmed in the initial sparring matches. His difficulty to impress anyone, even his coach, makes the odds of him winning lower by the day. After watching Bootney struggle, Billy and Clyde are encouraged to go through with their plan. Before the match, they sneak into Bootney's hotel room and hypnotize him, before they hilariously escape. They use what'southward left of the gild'southward budget to place their bets with local bookmakers, Kansas City Mack (John Amos) and Biggie Smalls (Calvin Lockhart). The hypnotized Bootney has transformed into a battle phenomenon and hands defeats the champion, 40th Street Blackness (Rodolphus Lee Hayden), by KO. Afterward collecting their money and returning to Atlanta to gloat at the club, they soon receive a visit from Kansas City Mack. Mack grew suspicious of the duo's conveniently-timed bet, and after finally catching on, he spent weeks searching for the two best friends. Once he arrives at the lodge, he makes a bargain that would allow the two sides exist even. Billy and Clyde must perform exactly the same hypnosis on a boxer, but this time they must collude with Mack. Baton and Clyde hold to the initial deal, but Clyde has a hard time de-hypnotizing Bootney. Bootney, however under hypnosis, has become far likewise quick for Clyde to keep up with and de-anesthetize. Unable to enter Farnsworth's training room to dehypnotize him, which in turn would cause him to lose the fight, Williams and Foster make up one's mind to bet on the friction match being a draw, and place bets with both gangster groups past using their wives, who will not be recognized. They decide to hypnotize Bootney's opponent, in society to capitalize on an outrageous bet no 1 would call up of, a tie. Following the stunning outcome, Billy and Clyde are nowhere to be found. Outraged, Kansas City Mack and rival bookmaker, Biggie Smalls, squad up in society to rail the 2 down. Baton and Clyde lead them on a hunt that ends upwardly at the local police force department. Here, the lead officeholder tells the 2 bookmakers that if he always hears they have harassed Billy and Clyde or if the 2 come up missing, they will be thrown in jail for a very long fourth dimension. The pic ends with Billy and Clyde taking a machine ride. Billy jokes that they should rig a fight involving heavyweight champion, Muhammad Ali and entertainer Sammy Davis Jr.

Cast [edit]

• Sidney Poitier every bit Clyde Williams
• Pecker Cosby as Billy Foster
• Calvin Lockhart as "Biggie" Smalls
• John Amos as Mack "Kansas City Mack"
• Jimmie Walker as "Bootney" Farnsworth
• Ossie Davis equally Elderberry Johnson
• Denise Nicholas equally Beth Foster
• Lee Chamberlin as Dee Dee Williams
• Mel Stewart as Ellison
• Julius Harris every bit "Bubbletop" Woodson
• Billy Eckstine as Zack
• Paul Harris every bit Jody Tipps
• Rodolphus Lee Hayden as 40th Street Blackness

When the pic premiered, John Amos and Jimmie Walker were starring as begetter and son in the CBS sitcom Proficient Times. George Foreman makes a cameo appearance as a manufacturing plant worker who challenges Billy to a fight in the starting time of the movie. Jayne Kennedy also makes a cameo during the opening credits equally the beautiful Daughter at the Factory that Billy is looking at when he crashes his forklift.

Background [edit]

The film's writer, Richard Wesley, also wrote the offset picture that featured Cosby and Poitier as co-stars, Uptown Sabbatum Night. Wesley's repertoire includes a range of black ability films and plays. Wesley is responsible for a 1971 play Black Terror, which portrayed the story of a blackness revolution that was to have identify in "the very virtually future" and a 1989 play The Talented Tenth which takes its name from Due west. Eastward. B. Du Bois's article, "The Talented Tenth." Like Wesley, the picture show's producer, Melville Tucker, as well worked on Uptown Saturday Night. Tucker worked with Poitier prior to both films also in The Lost Homo (1969). The Lost Human being is black ability film virtually group of black militants that hatch a plan to finance their "revolutionary struggle." In order to succeed in this mission, the grouping conspires to rob a factory.

The DVD contains a commentary feature that includes Richard Wesley and New York Press film critic Armond White. Wesley mentions that the picture show was important to Poitier'due south epitome. The moving-picture show allowed Poitier to aggrandize his now "distant" paradigm and respond criticism from blackness militants and the younger generation.^[5] Working with younger actors, like Jimmie Walker, was an of import factor in widening Poitier'due south audience. Jimmie Walker's character welcomed Poitier to "new blackness humor." Wesley also mentions that Pecker Cosby and Sydney Poitier were non the original lead actors he had in mind when writing the script. Instead, he thought of casting Richard Pryor and Redd Foxx. This did not come to fruition, every bit Warners Bros. wanted actors more known to mainstream America. Pryor and Foxx had some success simply Poitier was seen equally a more feasible lead thespian. In the finish, Wesley was pleased with the actors that pb the motion-picture show, because Poitier and Cosby worked then well together. Wesley points out that the friendship off-screen translated to the moving picture. Though, Poitier and Cosby had two very unlike acting styles, their chemistry was what boosted the script. Cosby and Poitier were joined by other actors that worked together previously. John Amos, Jimmie Walker, and Mel Stewart had all worked with an role player, producer or director prior to Let'south Do It Once more.

Themes [edit]

The attire in the film resembles much of what is seen in the Blaxploitation era. In the DVD'due south commentary, film critic Armond White points out that the suits were worn by Kansas City Mack and co. to parody Blaxploitation. Extravagant, if not gaudy, suits and gold jewelry are Blaxploitation staples.^[6] White also mentions that Bill Cosby satirizes the attire of Blaxploitation in simply ane scene. Cosby wears a flamboyant red and pink adapt in an attempt to impress prominent bookmaker Kansas City Mack (John Amos). Writer Chris Laverty went into more item about clothing and their importance in a journal for Arts Illustrated stating, "In a sense it was social progression, the essence of the self-fabricated man; readable entirely by what he wears. Narrative was indirectly powered by the coveting of apparel as visual representation of having 'fabricated information technology.'"^[7] It is too worth noting that Mack'southward entourage has either relaxed hair or a shaved head. Afros are not often seen on the heads of elite African-American businessmen. Afros are Blaxploitation staples and is seen on the head of Bill Cosby, while Sidney Poitier has a lower cut.

The part of women in the pic was a priority of Wesley. He admitted, in the film's commentary, that women were "underutilized" in Uptown Saturday Night. In Allow's Do information technology Once more, the significant others of Billy and Clyde are more than visible throughout the moving picture and play a larger role in the denouement of the picture show. Women are more visible in their relations to other characters every bit well. Wesley points out that an antagonist, Biggie Smalls, has a female head honcho. Mature relationships between black men and women that may have been "soured" by the fourth dimension was another reason for Wesley increasing the role of women in the film. Richard wanted to ameliorate the epitome of black community. To him, this improvement began in the portrayal of the household. Let's Do It Over again came at when films that starred powerful, blackness female leads, such as Coffy and Foxy Dark-brown, were being released. Wesley decided to take a dissimilar route and utilise black, female characters every bit companions to male leads.

Cocky-conclusion is some other theme present in the moving-picture show. The flick showed characters taking charge of their own lives. This idea that each individual controls their own life is another common theme in the Black Power movement and was primal to lectures by Black Power leaders such equally Malcolm Ten and Martin Luther King Jr.^{[eight] [nine]}

Soundtrack [edit]

The soundtrack to the picture show was put together past world-renowned musician Curtis Mayfield. Mayfield, also responsible for the highly-successful soundtrack in Super Fly (1972), wrote the music and The Staple Singers performed the songs. The title rail for this movie entitled, "Allow's Practice It Once again," was a number one hitting on both the R&B and Pop charts.^[3] Wesley credited much of the film's success to the success of the song, which was released prior to the film'south debut. The music also resembles much of what is seen in Blaxploitation. Upbeat funk with horns and syncopated drum beats are heard in black cinema films throughout the 1960s-1970's.

1. "Let's Do It Once again"
2. "Funky Beloved"
3. "A Whole Lot of Honey"
4. "New Orleans"
5. "I Want to Thank you"
6. "Big Mac"
7. "After Sex"
8. "Chase" (Quinton Joseph, Phillip Upchurch, Gary Thompson, Floyd Morris, Joseph Scott, Mayfield)

Influence in popular civilization [edit]

• The tardily Brooklyn rap creative person The Notorious B.I.G. took his alias, Biggie Smalls, from Calvin Lockhart's grapheme in this moving-picture show. Even so, the alias could not be used as his name due to ownership issues.
• Due east Coast rap group Campsite Lo named their second anthology "Let's Practise It Over again" later their debut anthology was named "Uptown Saturday Night," a reference to the 2 Cosby and Poitier movies.
• Musician/MTV personality Fonzworth Bentley took his stage name from Jimmie Walker'south character, Bootney Farnsworth.^[ten]

Reception [edit]

The revenue is listed at $11.8 one thousand thousand and was one of the highest-grossing films of 1975.^[eleven]

Roger Ebert gave it three out of four stars, saying that it "isn't a terribly ambitious comedy, only within its limitations it works well."^[12] Gene Siskel also awarded three stars out of 4 and wrote, "Subsequently making 'Uptown Saturday Night,' Cosby said that he wasn't satisfied with the picture even though it was selling well. He said he wanted to use the same gang and practise information technology once more, merely better. That'south been achieved, and at that place'due south no reason to cease at two. Cosby and Poitier have broad humor downwardly pat; I'd like to see them get witty."^[13] Richard Eder of The New York Times wrote that the activeness "is familiar stuff, just some of it is pretty funny," and found Cosby in item "hilarious."^[14] Diverseness wrote, "The gang from 'Uptown Saturday Night' encores successfully in 'Allow'south Exercise It Once again,' a funny, gratuitous-form farcical revue reminiscent in substance of classic Hal Roach one-act."^[15] Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times stated, "At 112 minutes, 'Let'south Do Information technology Again' is extraordinarily long for a one-act, withal its humor is sustained throughout, thanks to Wesley's ingenuity and to the fine ensemble playing of a large bandage nether Poitier'southward affectionate direction."^[16] Jonathan Rosenbaum of The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote, "Despite a bluntly nonsensical plot full of formula antics and an unnecessarily protracted running time, Let's Do Information technology Once again is a healthy reminder of the relative verve, energy and talent to exist plant nowadays in the so-called 'black exploitation' film—a somewhat loaded term considering the fact that no one always speaks of 'white exploitation,' and particularly inappropriate in relation to such a high-spirited still unassuming entertainment as this."^[17]

Rotten Tomatoes gives it a rating of 63% based on reviews from eight critics.^[18] The film besides won all five NAACP Image Awards for which it received a nomination. The moving-picture show earned $6 million in theatrical rentals in North America.^[19]

References to Richard Wesley'due south Life [edit]

In the DVD'south commentary, Wesley admits that several scenes and characters are references to his life, more specifically his childhood. 40th Street Blackness was the nickname of a child at a camp Richard'southward blood brother attended. Jimmie Walker's character, "Bootney" was another reference to his life. Wesley grew upwardly knowing two brothers named "Lil Bootney and Big Bootney." Wesley mentions the two were known as fighters within the community.

Remake [edit]

Will Smith and his production company, Overbrook Amusement, secured the rights in 2002 to the trilogy for remakes to star Smith and to be distributed by Warner Bros. Smith stated that he hoped to get Eddie Potato, Martin Lawrence and other famous African-American stars to be in the films.^{[20] [21]}

See as well [edit]

• Listing of American films of 1975

References [edit]

1. ^ Tiptop twenty Films of 1975 by Domestic Revenue. Box Role Study via Internet Archive. Retrieved September eighteen, 2013.
2. ^ ^{a b} "Allow'southward Do It Again". Turner Classic Movies . Retrieved May 21, 2016.
3. ^ ^{a b c} "AFI|Itemize". catalog.afi.com . Retrieved 2017-12-08 .
4. ^ "http://www.blackclassicmovies.com/lets-exercise-information technology-again/". blackclassicmovies.com . Retrieved 2017-12-08 .
5. ^ Permit'due south Practice it Again Film Commentary
6. ^ "Costuming the Blaxploitation Hero | Wearing apparel on Film". CAMARA DIA HOLLOWAY. 2013-eleven-19. Retrieved 2017-12-08 .
7. ^ "Blaxploitation Dress Codes in 1970s Movie house". Clothes on Film. 2013-09-xx. Retrieved 2017-12-08 .
8. ^ "Malcolm 10 Preaches Black Self-Empowerment". PBS LearningMedia . Retrieved 2017-12-08 .
9. ^ "Martin Luther Male monarch Jr.: Leader of Millions in Nonviolent Drive for Racial Justice". nytimes.com . Retrieved 2017-12-08 .
10. ^ "The Bro'south Code Interview: Fonzworth Bentley" Archived 2008-10-07 at the Wayback Machine, The Bro'southward Lawmaking, July 9, 2008. Retrieved October 24, 2009.
11. ^ "Box Office Report - Acquirement Database - 1975". 2008-06-05. Archived from the original on 2008-06-05. Retrieved 2017-12-08 .
12. ^ Ebert, Roger. "Let's Practice It Again Movie Review (1975) | Roger Ebert". rogerebert.com . Retrieved 2017-12-08 .
13. ^ Siskel, Gene (October 14, 1975). "'Do It Over again': Once more... merely improve". Chicago Tribune. Department iii, p. five.
14. ^ Eder, Richard (October xiii, 1975). "Poitier and Cosby in 'Let'south Exercise It Again,' Black Activity Comedy". The New York Times. 31.
15. ^ "Film Reviews: Let's Do It Once more". Diverseness. October viii, 1975. p. 16.
16. ^ Thomas, Kevin (Oct 13, 1975). "Cosby, Poitier Back in 'Again'". Los Angeles Times. Part 4, p. 1.
17. ^ Rosenbaum, Jonathan (August 1976). "Permit's Practice It Again". The Monthly Moving picture Bulletin. 43 (511): 166.
18. ^ "Let's Practice It Again". Retrieved 2018-12-08 .
19. ^ "All-time Film Rental Champs", Variety, 7 January 1976 p 46
20. ^ VH1.com : Will Smith : Will Smith Secures Rights To Sidney Poitier/ Bill Cosby Flicks - Rhapsody Music Downloads
21. ^ Uptown Sabbatum Night (1974) - News

External links [edit]

• Let's Exercise It Again at IMDb
• Let's Do It Once again at the TCM Movie Database
• Let'due south Do It Again at AllMovie
• Let's Do It Once again at Rotten Tomatoes

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