A Piece of the Action is a 1977 film starring Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby. Poitier also directed the film. This was the third film pairing of Poitier and Cosby following Uptown Saturday Night and Let's Do It Again. The film also stars James Earl Jones.

Dave Anderson and Manny Durrell are two high-class sneak thieves who have never been caught. Joshua Burke is a retired detective who has enough evidence on the both of them to put them behind bars. Instead, he offers to maintain his silence if the crooks will go straight and do work at a youth center for delinquents. At first, the crooks are reluctant and unwilling (and so are the kids). As time goes by they gain the trust and admiration of the kids and they start to enjoy the job. All goes well until someone out of the past tells them they have to do one last heist...or else... Written by Afterburner

Dave Anderson and Manny Durrell are two small time crooks who each pull flawless jobs. Now the cops are completely baffled. But one cop Joshua Burke who just retired, knows who they are and what they did but instead of turning them he offers them a proposition, work at a youth center for underprivileged teenagers or...With very little choice they agree to it but they also try to find out who he is. Written by rcs0411@yahoo.com