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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Directed by: Sidney Poitier
Featuring: Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, Ruby Dee, Cameron Mitchell, Denny Miller, Enrique Lucero, Julie Robinson-Belafonte
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.
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Format: Blu-ray
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1.85:1
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English 1.0 PCM Mono
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English
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A
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1 Disc |
BD-50
Supplements
- 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 Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte from 1972 episodes of Soul and The Dick Cavett Show
- New interview with Gina Belafonte, daughter of Harry Belafonte
- An essay by critic Aisha Harris
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