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| Directed by | Sidney Poitier |
| Screenplay by | Charles Blackwell |
| Story by | Timothy March |
| Produced by | Melville Tucker |
| Starring | Sidney Poitier Bill Cosby James Earl Jones Denise Nicholas Hope Clarke Tracy Reed Titos Vandis |
| Cinematography | Donald M. Morgan |
| Edited by | Pembroke J. Herring |
| Music by | Curtis Mayfield |
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| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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Running time | 135 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
A Piece of the Action is a 1977 American crime comedy film directed by and starring Sidney Poitier and co-starring Bill Cosby. It was the third film pairing of Poitier and Cosby, following Uptown Saturday Night (1974) and Let's Do It Again (1975). The films are considered a trilogy, even though the actors play characters with different names in each film. It was also Poitier's last acting role for more than a decade, as he focused his attentions on directing.
The film focuses on two high-class thieves who have managed to evade arrests. A retired detective blackmails them into working for a youth center and into assisting in the reformation of juvenile delinquents.