Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Buck and the preacher / Columbia Pictures presents an E & R Production Corp., Belafonte Enterprises, Inc. co-production ; producer, Joel Glickman ; screenplay, Ernest Kinoy ; directed by Sidney Poitier.

Publisher, Date:

Description:

1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

This is the story of the perils faced by a wagon train of courageous black settlers. It's the 1860s and Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation has just freed the country's slaves, but a group of vigilate nightraiders are resentful of the black men's newly-gained freedom.

Target Audience Note:

MPAA rating: PG.

Series:

Western classics

Western classics.

Subjects:

African Americans -- Drama.

Freedmen -- Drama.

Man-woman relationships -- Drama.

Swindlers and swindling -- Drama.

Genre:

Feature films.

Other Author:

Glickman, Joel.

Kinoy, Ernest.

Poitier, Sidney.

Belafonte, Harry, 1927-2023

Dee, Ruby.

Mitchell, Cameron, 1918-1994.

Phillips, Alex.

Carter, Benny.

Verhille, Guy C.

Litwack, Sydney Z.

Columbia Pictures Corporation.

E & R Production Corp.

Belafonte Enterprises.

Columbia TriStar Home Video (Firm)

Notes:

Originally released as a motion picture in 1972.

Special features: Widescreen version on side A, full screen version on side B; production notes; talent files; original theatrical poster; theatrical trailer; bonus trailers.

Producer, Joel Glickman ; director, Sidney Poitier ; screen play, Ernest Kinoy ; story, Ernest Kinoy, Drake Walker ; music, Benny Carter; Director of photography Alex Phillips.

Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, Ruby Dee, Cameron Mitchell, Denny Miller, Nita Talbot.

DVD (with chapter stops), Dolby digital, digitally mastered audio & video, Region 1 encoding.

English or Portuguese dialogue, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean or Thai subtitles; Closed-captioned.

Contents:

Side A. Widescreen -- side B. Full screen.

ISBN:

076782802X

9780767828024

9780767828024 : DVD

076782802X : DVD

Publisher Number:

01489

Other Number:

44001026

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

699258

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE Buck and