Let's Do it Again
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Let's Do it Again is a 1953 musical set in 1920's Montreal. It starred Jane Wyman, Ray Milland, and Aldo Ray. A composer's wife trys to make him jealous and it backfires into divorce.
In 1975, a comedy by the same name was filmed by Sidney Poitier. It starred Poitier himself, along with Bill Cosby, Calvin Lockhart, John Amos, and Jimmie Walker. A boxing match in New Orleans is fixed using hypnosis, and gangsters lose their money.
This is the second in a three-part series of comedic film collaborations between Poitier & Cosby. Uptown Saturday Night (1974) is the first entry; A Piece of the Action (1977) is the third.
Rapper The Notorious B.I.G. takes one of his aliases -- "Biggie Smalls" -- from a stylish gangster portrayed by Lockhart in the 1975 film.