BUCK & THE PREACHER - BLU-CRITERION COLLECTION

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• Release Year: 1972
• Genre: Western
• Plot: With his rousingly entertaining directorial debut, Sidney Poitier, alongside actor-producer Harry Belafonte, 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 Belafonte star as a tough and taciturn wagon master and an unscrupulous, pistol-packing 'preacher,' who join forces in order to take on the white bounty hunters threatening a westward-bound caravan of people recently emancipated from slavery. A superbly crafted revisionist landmark, Buck and the Preacher subverts Hollywood conventions at every turn and reclaims the western genre in the name of Black liberation.
• Cast: Sidney Poitier, Walter Scott, John Howard, Shirleena Manchur, La Markova, Hannelore Richter, Valerie Heckman, Stephanie Lower, Phil Adams, Enrique Lucero, José Carlos Ruiz, Ron Fletcher, Jerry Gatlin, Ivan Scott, Bill Cook, John Kennedy, John Dierkes, Julie Robinson, Bill Shannon, Dennis Hines, Harry Belafonte, Ruby Dee, Cameron Mitchell, Denny Miller, Nita Talbot, John Kelly, Tony Brubaker, Fred M. Waugh, Bobby Johnson, Clarence Muse, Lynn Hamilton, Doug Johnson, Errol John, Kenneth Menard, Pamela Jones, Drake Walker, James McEachin, Joseph Sargent, Ernest Kinoy
• Director: Sidney Poitier
• Runtime: 1:43
• Company: Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., E & R Productions Corp., Belafonte Enterprises, Inc., Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. (SPE), The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie