Buck and the preacher /

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 marvel...

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Other Authors:	Poitier, Sidney (Actor), Kinoy, Ernest (Screenwriter), Walker, Drake (Screenwriter), Belafonte, Harry, 1927- (Actor), Dee, Ruby (Actor), Mitchell, Cameron, 1918-1994 (Actor), Miller, Denny, 1934-2014 (Actor), Talbot, Nita, 1930- (Actor), Carter, Benny (composer (expression)), Phillips, Alex (director of photography.)
Format:	Video Blu-ray Disc
Language:	English
Language Notes:	In English with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).
Published:	[New York, NY] : The Criterion Collection, [2022]
Edition:	Blu-ray special edition.
Series:	Criterion collection ; 1140.
Subjects:	African Americans > Drama. Freed persons > Drama. Man-woman relationships > Drama. Swindlers and swindling > Drama. Western films. Action and adventure films. Feature films. Fiction films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

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Summary:	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
Item Description:	Originally released as a motion picture in 1972. Wide screen (1.85:1). Accompanied by folded sheet (8 pages) containing essay by critic Aisha Harris. 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. + 1 folded sheet (8 pages : black and white illustrations ; 17 cm).
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 1681439689