Let's Do It Again

Director and co-star Sidney Poitier’s charming opening, featuring himself in Atlanta, the Staple Singers with Curtis Mayfield’s title tune, Jayne Kennedy stopping factory traffic, heavyweight champ George Foreman baring his chest, Bill Cosby’s introduction at the time perfectly innocent, in the hit semi-sequel Let’s Do It Again, 1975.

Atlantans Billy and Clyde (Bill Cosby, director Sidney Poitier) have posed as reporters to sneak into the New Orleans hotel room of hapless middleweight contender Farnsworth (Jimmie Walker), and we learn how they mean to rig the fight, in Let’s Do It Again, 1975.

We meet Calvin Lockhart as the character whose name was, in fact, borrowed by the famous Brooklyn rapper, visited by Clyde (director Sidney Poitier), then buddy Billy (Bill Cosby), using the same alias, visits the other New Orleans crime boss (John Amos), placing bets on the fight they’ve rigged, in Let’s Do It Again, 1975.

Shot at Atlanta’s historic Big Bethel A.M.E. church, Lee Chamberlin and Denise Nicholas are spouses of Clyde and Billy (director Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby) and Ossie Davis the head of the fraternal group which, we learn, is the cause for which they need to raise money, in Let’s Do It Again, 1975.