Let's turn another thing

Movie
German title	Let's turn another thing
Original title	Let's do it again
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1975
length	110 minutes
Rod
Director	Sidney Poitier
script	Timothy March
production	Melville Tucker
music	Curtis Mayfield
camera	Donald M. Morgan
cut	Pembroke J. Herring
occupation
Sidney Poitier : Clyde Williams Bill Cosby : Billy Foster Calvin Lockhart : Biggie Smalls John Amos : Kansas City Mack Jimmie Walker : Bootney Farnsworth Ossie Davis : Elder Johnson Denise Nicholas : Beth Foster Lee Chamberlin : Dee Dee Williams Mel Stewart : Ellison Rodolphus Lee Hayden : 40th Street Black Jayne Kennedy : Beautiful woman on factory site

Drehn wir noch'n Ding is an American comedy film from 1975 with Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby in the lead roles. Sidney Poitier directed it. With a few exceptions, the film features Afro-American actors in both the main and supporting roles . The first broadcast on German television took place on October 16, 1983 on ZDF .

action

The action begins in Atlanta : Clyde Williams and Billy Foster are ordinary workers and members of the sect Brothers and Sisters of Shaka . This sect is threatened with bankruptcy; and they see it as their moral duty to raise money. Using hypnosis , they decide to manipulate a boxing match in New Orleans . Both dress up as gangsters and put their savings on the blatant outsider Bootney Farnsworth with two underworld bosses. This is then secretly hypnotized by Clyde; and he is led to believe that he is a great boxer. So motivated, he defeated the defending champion "40th Street Black". Clyde and Foster cash in and drive back to Atlanta.

However, one of the two underworld bosses finds out about them, tracks them down and forces them to come to New Orleans and manipulate another fight. You go there; but they fail to hypnotize Bootney again. You decide to try a new trick and pit both rival gangster gangs against each other.

additional

• George Foreman plays a colleague of Bill Cosby's work in a short supporting role, who challenges him to a fight.
• Rapper The Notorious BIG borrowed his alias, Biggie Smalls, from the character played by Calvin Lockhart. The name could not be used officially because of naming rights.
• The hip-hop group Camp Lo called their second album Let's Do It Again as a tribute to the film.
• The musician Fonzworth Bentley was influenced in the choice of his stage name by Jimmie Walker's character, Bootney Farnsworth.

Reviews

“(...) a film full of action and gag full of funky ideas; Poitier / Cosby made a remarkable contribution to “black humor”. (Rating: 2½ out of 4 possible stars - above average) "

- Adolf Heinzlmeier and Berndt Schulz : Lexicon "Films on TV"

Web links

• We drehn noch'n thing in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ " The Bro's Code Interview: Fonzworth Bentley" ( Memento from October 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) ( English )
2. ^ Adolf Heinzlmeier, Berndt Schulz: Lexicon "Films on TV" . Extended new edition. Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-89136-392-3 , p. 167