Buck and the preacher [Blu-ray] / Columbia Pictures presents an E&R/BEI production ; story by Ernest Kinoy and Drake Walker ; screenplay by Ernest Kinoy ; directed by Sidney Poitier.
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. Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, Ruby Dee.
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
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.