 The Black Boy Jungle and The Defiant Ones. And he was the noble black person because usually he was the only black person in movies back then. And in the 70s, he started taking control of his career by directing movies, by producing them, by putting good old Harry Belafonte and Buck and the Preacher, for example, and directing that film and being able to do a comedy. Sidney didn't do any comedies before Uptown Saturday Night.