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.

• First Artists
• Verdon Productions Limited
• Sidney Poitier
• Bill Cosby
• Calvin Lockhart
• John Amos
• Jimmie Walker
• Ossie Davis
• Denise Nicholas
• Lee Chamberlin