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1975 film by Sidney Poitier

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Theatrical release poster by Jack Rickard
Directed by	Sidney Poitier
Screenplay by	Richard Wesley
Story by	Timothy March
Produced by	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	Start Artists Verdon Productions Limited
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release appointment	Oct eleven, 1975 (1975-ten-11)
Running time	113 minutes
Country	United States
Linguistic communication	English
Box office	$11.8 meg (rentals) [1]

Allow'due south Do It Again is a 1975 American activeness crime comedy film directed by and starring Sidney Poitier and co-starring Beak Cosby and Jimmie Walker,^[2] amid an all-star black bandage. The film, directed by Poitier,^[2] is about blue-neckband workers who decide to rig a boxing friction match to raise money for their fraternal social club. The song of the same name past The Staple Singers was featured as the opening and ending theme of the movie, and as a result, the two accept get ordinarily associated with each other. The product companies include Verdon Productions and The First Artists Production Company, Ltd., and distributed by Warner Bros. The movie was filmed in two cities, Atlanta, Georgia and New Orleans, Louisiana, where well-nigh of the plot takes place.^[three] This was the second picture show pairing of Poitier and Cosby post-obit Uptown Saturday Night, and followed by A Piece of the Action (1977). Of the three, Let'southward Exercise Information technology Again has been the nigh successful both critically and commercially. Calvin Lockhart and Lee Chamberlin also appeared in Uptown Sat Dark. Co-ordinate to the American Picture show Institute, Let's Do It Again is not a sequel to Uptown Saturday Night ^[iii]

Plot [edit]

Two friends, Baton Foster (Nib Cosby) and Clyde Williams (Sidney Poitier), demand to rapidly observe a fashion to enhance funds for their fraternal lodge, the Sons and Daughters of Shaka.^[iv] It is incumbent on Baton to find the coin considering he is the treasurer of the struggling gild. Subsequently Billy convinces Clyde that it is their all-time and quickest option, they determine to bring dorsum a successful money-making scheme, hence the championship. Clyde'southward special ability of hypnosis allows the two to set up up boxing matches and so maximize profits past going all in on the underdog. Baton and Clyde take their talents to New Orleans to rig a boxing friction match. This is where Jimmie Walker'due south character, Bootney Farnsworth, comes into the fold. Bootney is lanky boxer that is overwhelmed in the initial sparring matches. His difficulty to print anyone, fifty-fifty his omnibus, 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's left of the order'south budget to identify their bets with local bookmakers, Kansas City Mack (John Amos) and Biggie Smalls (Calvin Lockhart). The hypnotized Bootney has transformed into a boxing miracle and hands defeats the champion, 40th Street Black (Rodolphus Lee Hayden), by KO. Subsequently collecting their money and returning to Atlanta to celebrate at the lodge, they soon receive a visit from Kansas City Mack. Mack grew suspicious of the duo'south conveniently-timed bet, and after finally catching on, he spent weeks searching for the ii best friends. One time he arrives at the lodge, he makes a deal that would allow the two sides be even. Billy and Clyde must perform exactly the same hypnosis on a boxer, but this time they must collude with Mack. Baton and Clyde agree to the initial deal, but Clyde has a hard time de-hypnotizing Bootney. Bootney, still under hypnosis, has become far as well quick for Clyde to keep up with and de-hypnotize. Unable to enter Farnsworth's grooming room to dehypnotize him, which in turn would crusade him to lose the fight, Williams and Foster decide to bet on the match being a describe, and place bets with both gangster groups past using their wives, who will not be recognized. They decide to hypnotize Bootney's opponent, in club to capitalize on an outrageous bet no one would recollect of, a necktie. Following the stunning issue, Billy and Clyde are nowhere to be institute. Outraged, Kansas Metropolis Mack and rival bookmaker, Biggie Smalls, team upwardly in gild to rails the two down. Billy and Clyde lead them on a chase that ends up at the local police department. Here, the lead officeholder tells the ii bookmakers that if he always hears they have harassed Billy and Clyde or if the two come upward missing, they will exist thrown in jail for a very long time. The movie ends with Billy and Clyde taking a car 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
• Bill Cosby equally Billy Foster
• Calvin Lockhart as "Biggie" Smalls
• John Amos as Mack "Kansas Urban center Mack"
• Jimmie Walker as "Bootney" Farnsworth
• Ossie Davis every bit Elder Johnson
• Denise Nicholas as Beth Foster
• Lee Chamberlin as Dee Dee Williams
• Mel Stewart as Ellison
• Julius Harris as "Bubbletop" Woodson
• Billy Eckstine as Zack
• Paul Harris as Jody Tipps
• Rodolphus Lee Hayden as 40th Street Black

When the film premiered, John Amos and Jimmie Walker were starring as father and son in the CBS sitcom Good Times. George Foreman makes a cameo appearance as a factory worker who challenges Billy to a fight in the beginning of the flick. Jayne Kennedy also makes a cameo during the opening credits as the cute Girl at the Factory that Baton is looking at when he crashes his forklift.

Background [edit]

The film'due south author, Richard Wesley, as well wrote the first moving-picture show that featured Cosby and Poitier as co-stars, Uptown Saturday Dark. Wesley's repertoire includes a range of black power films and plays. Wesley is responsible for a 1971 play Black Terror, which portrayed the story of a black revolution that was to accept place in "the very near future" and a 1989 play The Talented 10th which takes its name from West. E. B. Du Bois's article, "The Talented 10th." Like Wesley, the picture show's producer, Melville Tucker, too worked on Uptown Sabbatum Night. Tucker worked with Poitier prior to both films as well in The Lost Man (1969). The Lost Human is blackness power film near grouping of black militants that hatch a plan to finance their "revolutionary struggle." In order to succeed in this mission, the group conspires to rob a mill.

The DVD contains a commentary feature that includes Richard Wesley and New York Press moving picture critic Armond White. Wesley mentions that the film was important to Poitier's image. The film allowed Poitier to expand his now "distant" epitome and reply criticism from blackness militants and the younger generation.^[five] Working with younger actors, like Jimmie Walker, was an important factor in widening Poitier'southward audience. Jimmie Walker's graphic symbol welcomed Poitier to "new black sense of humor." Wesley too mentions that Beak Cosby and Sydney Poitier were not the original lead actors he had in mind when writing the script. Instead, he thought of casting Richard Pryor and Redd Foxx. This did non come to fruition, as Warners Bros. wanted actors more known to mainstream America. Pryor and Foxx had some success only Poitier was seen equally a more feasible pb actor. In the end, Wesley was pleased with the actors that lead the moving-picture show, because Poitier and Cosby worked so well together. Wesley points out that the friendship off-screen translated to the film. Though, Poitier and Cosby had two very dissimilar acting styles, their chemistry was what additional 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 actor, producer or director prior to Allow'due south Practice Information technology Again.

Themes [edit]

The attire in the pic resembles much of what is seen in the Blaxploitation era. In the DVD'due south commentary, picture critic Armond White points out that the suits were worn by Kansas City Mack and co. to parody Blaxploitation. Extravagant, if non gaudy, suits and gold jewelry are Blaxploitation staples.^[6] White as well mentions that Beak Cosby satirizes the attire of Blaxploitation in just one scene. Cosby wears a flamboyant ruby-red and pink suit in an attempt to impress prominent bookmaker Kansas Metropolis Mack (John Amos). Writer Chris Laverty went into more item most vesture and their importance in a journal for Arts Illustrated stating, "In a sense information technology was social progression, the essence of the cocky-made man; readable entirely by what he wears. Narrative was indirectly powered by the coveting of clothes as visual representation of having 'made it.'"^[7] It is also worth noting that Mack'due south entourage has either relaxed hair or a shaved caput. Afros are not frequently 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 role of women in the moving picture was a priority of Wesley. He admitted, in the motion picture's commentary, that women were "underutilized" in Uptown Saturday Night. In Let's Do it Once again, the significant others of Baton and Clyde are more than visible throughout the movie and play a larger office in the denouement of the picture show. Women are more visible in their relations to other characters as well. Wesley points out that an adversary, Biggie Smalls, has a female caput honcho. Mature relationships between black men and women that may have been "soured" past the fourth dimension was some other reason for Wesley increasing the role of women in the film. Richard wanted to improve the image of blackness community. To him, this improvement began in the portrayal of the household. Permit's Do It Again came at when films that starred powerful, black female leads, such as Coffy and Foxy Brown, were being released. Wesley decided to take a different route and use blackness, female characters as companions to male leads.

Self-conclusion is another theme present in the film. The film showed characters taking charge of their own lives. This idea that each private controls their own life is another common theme in the Black Ability movement and was central to lectures by Black Power leaders such as Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.^{[8] [9]}

Soundtrack [edit]

The soundtrack to the film was put together past earth-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 championship rail for this film entitled, "Let'southward Do It Again," was a number one hitting on both the R&B and Popular charts.^[3] Wesley credited much of the motion picture'due south success to the success of the song, which was released prior to the moving picture's debut. The music likewise resembles much of what is seen in Blaxploitation. Upbeat funk with horns and syncopated drum beats are heard in blackness cinema films throughout the 1960s-1970's.

1. "Let's Do It Over again"
2. "Funky Love"
3. "A Whole Lot of Honey"
4. "New Orleans"
5. "I Desire to Give thanks Yous"
6. "Large Mac"
7. "Subsequently Sex"
8. "Chase" (Quinton Joseph, Phillip Upchurch, Gary Thompson, Floyd Morris, Joseph Scott, Mayfield)

Influence in popular civilization [edit]

• The late Brooklyn rap artist The Notorious B.I.1000. took his allonym, Biggie Smalls, from Calvin Lockhart's character in this motion picture. However, the alias could not be used equally his name due to buying issues.
• East Coast rap group Camp Lo named their 2d anthology "Permit'southward Practise It Again" later their debut album was named "Uptown Sat Dark," a reference to the two Cosby and Poitier movies.
• Musician/MTV personality Fonzworth Bentley took his stage proper name from Jimmie Walker's grapheme, Bootney Farnsworth.^[10]

Reception [edit]

The revenue is listed at $eleven.viii meg and was one of the highest-grossing films of 1975.^[11]

Roger Ebert gave it 3 out of four stars, proverb that it "isn't a terribly ambitious comedy, merely within its limitations it works well."^[12] Factor Siskel also awarded 3 stars out of iv and wrote, "Afterward 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 apply the aforementioned gang and do information technology once more, but improve. That's been accomplished, and there's no reason to stop at two. Cosby and Poitier have broad sense of humor downwards pat; I'd similar to meet them become witty."^[thirteen] Richard Eder of The New York Times wrote that the action "is familiar stuff, but some of information technology is pretty funny," and plant Cosby in particular "hilarious."^[14] Variety wrote, "The gang from 'Uptown Sabbatum Night' encores successfully in 'Allow's Do It Once more,' a funny, gratuitous-course farcical revue reminiscent in substance of classic Hal Roach comedy."^[15] Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times stated, "At 112 minutes, 'Permit'southward Practise Information technology Again' is extraordinarily long for a comedy, yet its humor is sustained throughout, thanks to Wesley's ingenuity and to the fine ensemble playing of a big cast under Poitier's affectionate direction."^[16] Jonathan Rosenbaum of The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote, "Despite a bluntly nonsensical plot total of formula antics and an unnecessarily protracted running time, Allow's Do It Again is a salubrious reminder of the relative verve, energy and talent to be found nowadays in the so-chosen 'black exploitation' motion picture—a somewhat loaded term considering the fact that no ane ever speaks of 'white exploitation,' and especially inappropriate in relation to such a high-spirited yet unassuming entertainment equally this."^[17]

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

References to Richard Wesley's Life [edit]

In the DVD's commentary, Wesley admits that several scenes and characters are references to his life, more specifically his childhood. 40th Street Black was the nickname of a child at a camp Richard'southward blood brother attended. Jimmie Walker's grapheme, "Bootney" was another reference to his life. Wesley grew up knowing 2 brothers named "Lil Bootney and Big Bootney." Wesley mentions the ii were known as fighters within the community.

Remake [edit]

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

See also [edit]

• List of American films of 1975

References [edit]

1. ^ Meridian 20 Films of 1975 by Domestic Revenue. Box Office Report via Internet Archive. Retrieved September 18, 2013.
2. ^ ^{a b} "Let'southward Do It Over again". Turner Classic Movies . Retrieved May 21, 2016.
3. ^ ^{a b c} "AFI|Catalog". catalog.afi.com . Retrieved 2017-12-08 .
4. ^ "http://world wide web.blackclassicmovies.com/lets-exercise-it-once more/". blackclassicmovies.com . Retrieved 2017-12-08 .
5. ^ Let'southward Practise it Again Film Commentary
6. ^ "Costuming the Blaxploitation Hero | Clothes on Film". CAMARA DIA HOLLOWAY. 2013-eleven-19. Retrieved 2017-12-08 .
7. ^ "Blaxploitation Dress Codes in 1970s Cinema". Apparel on Film. 2013-09-xx. Retrieved 2017-12-08 .
8. ^ "Malcolm X Preaches Blackness Self-Empowerment". PBS LearningMedia . Retrieved 2017-12-08 .
9. ^ "Martin Luther Rex 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-x-07 at the Wayback Machine, The Bro's Code, 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 Do It Over again Flick Review (1975) | Roger Ebert". rogerebert.com . Retrieved 2017-12-08 .
13. ^ Siskel, Gene (October xiv, 1975). "'Do It Again': Once more... just improve". Chicago Tribune. Section 3, p. 5.
14. ^ Eder, Richard (October 13, 1975). "Poitier and Cosby in 'Let's Do Information technology Once more,' Black Action Comedy". The New York Times. 31.
15. ^ "Moving-picture show Reviews: Let'south Practise It Once more". Diverseness. October viii, 1975. p. 16.
16. ^ Thomas, Kevin (October 13, 1975). "Cosby, Poitier Back in 'Again'". Los Angeles Times. Role Iv, p. ane.
17. ^ Rosenbaum, Jonathan (August 1976). "Let'south Do It Again". The Monthly Film Bulletin. 43 (511): 166.
18. ^ "Permit's Do Information technology Again". Retrieved 2018-12-08 .
19. ^ "Best Flick Rental Champs", Variety, 7 January 1976 p 46
20. ^ VH1.com : Volition Smith : Will Smith Secures Rights To Sidney Poitier/ Bill Cosby Flicks - Rhapsody Music Downloads
21. ^ Uptown Saturday Dark (1974) - News

External links [edit]

• Let'due south Practice Information technology Again at IMDb
• Permit'southward Do It Over again at the TCM Movie Database
• Let'south Do It Once again at AllMovie
• Let's Exercise It Again at Rotten Tomatoes

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