Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Uptown Saturday Night (Cosby and Poitier are great together).
Let's Do It (Cosby and Poitier are great together).
Shoot to Kill
In the Heat of the Night
Those are probably his most famous and the ones most people have seen, he is a good actor but he doesn't blow me away with his acting, after everything I read about his acting and so on, it was a disappointment.
I've only seen:
Guess Who's Coming To Dinner
The Defiant Ones
To Sir, With Love
In The Heat of the Night
Lilies in the Field is suppose to be a good one, he won the Best Actor Oscar for it.
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in the heat of the night - i love it when he slaps the old garden dude. i can just hear the giant gasps that came from the audience when it played originally. plus, "....they call me mister tibbs!"
to sir, with love - the original 'teacher who goes out of his way with rebel class and turns them all to good works.' and the original is always the best.
guess who's coming to dinner - the moments with his father are some of the most emotional i've seen. poitier, the always confident man, almost breaks down. plus katharine hepburn and spencer tracy are together again.
a patch of blue - poitier befriends a blind, white young woman.
lilies of the field does have a good reputation, but for me it had a little too many off-color undertones of black man working for white women for free. it definitely shows the time period the movie was made in.
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Yeah Shoot To Kill is awesome.that was my favorite movie of the year when that movie first came out and one of my faves of all time.Other than that, Porgy and Bess is the only other one of his that I have seen.Like most people here,he was way before my time.Shoot To Kill is an awesome great movie and very underrated.You never hear that movie mentioned around here like you do with others such as Die Hard ect.
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