Buck and the preacher
Blu-ray - 2022
With his rousingly entertaining directorial debut, Sidney Poitier helped rewrite the history of the western, bringing Black heroes to a genre in which they had always been sorely underrepresented. Combining boisterous buddy comedy with blistering, Black Power-era political fury, Poitier and a marvelously mischievous Harry Belafonte star as a tough and taciturn wagon master and an unscrupulous, pistol-packing "preacher," who join forces to take on the white bounty hunters threatening a westward-bound caravan of recently freed enslaved people. A superbly crafted revisionist landmark.
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- Subjects
- Genres
- Feature films
Fiction films
Western films
Action and adventure films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired - Published
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[Irvington, NY] :
The Criterion Collection
[2022]
- Language
- English
- Corporate Authors
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- Edition
- Blu-ray special edition
- Item Description
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1972.
Wide screen (1.85:1).
Special features: new interview with Mia Mask, author of Black rodeo, a history of the African American western; behind-the-scenes footage featuring actor-director Sidney Poitier and actor Harry Belafonte; interviews with Poitier and Belafonte from 1972 episodes of Soul! and The Dick Cavett Show; new interview with Gina Belafone, daughter of Harry Belafonte. - Physical Description
- 1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
- Format
- Blu-ray, region A, monaural; requires Blu-ray player.
- Production Credits
- Director of photography, Alex Phillips, Jr. ; music, Benny Carter ; editor, Pembroke J. Herring.
- ISBN
- 9781681439686
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