Blu-ray
Buck and the preacher
Call Number
- BLU-RAY ACTION (CEN)
Edition
Blu-ray special edition.
Languages
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Performers
Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, Ruby Dee, Cameron Mitchell.
Publication Information
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2022]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (103 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (illustrations ; 17 cm)
Audience
MPAA rating: PG.
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 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."--Container.
Notes
Originally released as a motion picture in 1972.
Special features: New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack ; 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-producer 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.