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

Blu-ray special edition.

[New York, NY] : The Criterion Collection, [2022]

©2022

1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in.

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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.

The Criterion collection ; 1140

Criterion collection ; 1140.

African Americans -- Drama.

Freed persons -- Drama.

Man-woman relationships -- Drama.

Swindlers and swindling -- Drama.

Feature films.

Fiction films.

Western films.

Action and adventure films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Poitier, Sidney, film director, actor.

Kinoy, Ernest, screenwriter.

Walker, Drake, screenwriter.

Glickman, Joel, film producer.

Belafonte, Harry, 1927-2023 actor.

Dee, Ruby, actor.

Mitchell, Cameron, 1918-1994, actor.

Miller, Denny, 1934-2014, actor.

Talbot, Nita, 1930- actor.

Carter, Benny, composer (expression)

Phillips, Alex, director of photography.

Herring, Pembroke J., 1930-2020, editor of moving image work.

Columbia Pictures, production company.

E & R Productions Corp., production company.

Belafonte Enterprises, production company.

Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1972.

Wide screen (1.85:1).

Accompanied by folded sheet (8 pages) containing essay by critic Aisha Harris.

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.

Director of photography, Alex Phillips, Jr. ; music, Benny Carter ; editor, Pembroke J. Herring.

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

Blu-ray, region A, monaural; requires Blu-ray player.

Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).

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