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Let's Do it Again (1953) musical set in 1920s Montreal, and released by Columbia Pictures. The film was directed by Alexander Hall and starred Jane Wyman, Ray Milland, Aldo Ray, and Tom Helmore. A composer's wife (Wyman) tries to make him (Milland) jealous and it backfires into divorce.
This light, breezy and lush color film is a reworking of a stage play, The Awful Truth (1924) by Arthur Richman -- previously filmed in 1925, 1929, and 1937 -- transferred to the screen and enriched by the performers.
The highlight of the picture is a bawdy (for the time) song and dance "The Call of the Wild," performed by Wyman at a dinner party, to the dismay of the party goers and the delight of the movie audience. Although not a major role for Wyman, it demonstrated her versatility as both a dramatic and comedic actress.
Let's Do It Again is a 1975 film starring Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby. Poitier also directed. This was the second film pairing of Poitier and Cosby following Uptown Saturday Night. Set in Atlanta, it follows Clyde Williams (Poitier) and Billy Foster (Cosby) as a pair of blue-collar workers who are trying to raise funds for the Brothers and Sisters of Shaka. They decide to rig a boxing match in New Orleans. They use hypnotism to convince Bootney Farnsworth (Jimmie Walker) that he is a highly skilled prize fighter. He fights and wins, and Williams and Foster cleanup after betting on him, the underdog. They return home, and all is fine until the gangsters who lost money betting on the other guy figure out the scam and come to Atlanta, to get the pair to do it again...or be killed.
Clyde Williams and Billy Foster are a couple of blue-collar workers in Atlanta who have promised to raise funds for their fraternal order, the Brothers and Sisters of Shaka. However, their method for raising the money involves travelling to New Orleans and rigging a boxing match. Using hypnotism, they turn the scrawny underdog into a super-confident fighting machine. They bet heavily on him, he wins easily, and they return to Atlanta with their money. All is fine until the gangsters conned by these two figure out what happened show up in Atlanta with a grudge. Now Williams and Foster have to rig the fight again so the gangsters can get their money back or they'll be killed. Can they do it again...? Written by Afterburner