#1140: POITIER, Sidney: Buck And The Preacher (1972)
POITIER, Sidney (United States)
Buck And The Preacher [1972]
Director/Writers
Buck And The Preacher [1972]
Spine #1140
Blu-ray
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 in order to take on the white bounty hunters threatening a westward-bound caravan of recently freed enslaved people. 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.
103 minutes
Color
Color
Monaural
1:85:1 aspect ratio
1:85:1 aspect ratio
Criterion Release 2022
Story by Ernest Kinoy and Drake Walker.
Screenplay by Kinoy.
Sidney Poitier was 45 when he directed Buck and the Preacher.
Screenplay by Kinoy.
Sidney Poitier was 45 when he directed Buck and the Preacher.
The Film
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Film Rating (0-60):
The Booklet
Eight-page wraparound featuring an essay by critic Aisha Harris.
Commentary
None.
Interview 1
With Mia Mask, author of Black Rodeo: A History of the African American Western.
Behind-the-scenes
Footage featuring actor-director Poitier and actor-producer Belafonte.
Interviews
With Poitier and Belafonte from 1972 episodes of Soul! and The Dick Cavett Show.
Interview 2
With Gina Belafonte, daughter of Harry.
Extras Rating (0-40):
60
The ExtrasThe Booklet
Eight-page wraparound featuring an essay by critic Aisha Harris.
Commentary
None.
Interview 1
With Mia Mask, author of Black Rodeo: A History of the African American Western.
Behind-the-scenes
Footage featuring actor-director Poitier and actor-producer Belafonte.
Interviews
With Poitier and Belafonte from 1972 episodes of Soul! and The Dick Cavett Show.
Interview 2
With Gina Belafonte, daughter of Harry.
Extras Rating (0-40):
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