Buck and the Preacher (1972)(Criterion Collection) on Blu-ray
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Actor: Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, Ruby Dee, Cameron Mitchell, Denny Miller, Nita Talbot
Director: Sidney Poitier
Genre: Western
Year: 1972
Studio: Criterion Collection
Length: 103
Released: 08/23/2022
Rating: NR
Format: Blu-ray
Misc: NTSC, Color
Language: English
Subtitles: N/A
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.
-New interview with Mia Mask, author of Black Rodeo: A History of the African American Western
-Behind-the-scenes footage featuring director and actor 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 Belafonte, daughter of Harry Belafonte
-English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
-PLUS: An essay by critic Aisha Harris
Director: Sidney Poitier
Genre: Western
Year: 1972
Studio: Criterion Collection
Length: 103
Released: 08/23/2022
Rating: NR
Format: Blu-ray
Misc: NTSC, Color
Language: English
Subtitles: N/A
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.
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 director and actor 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 Belafonte, daughter of Harry Belafonte
-English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
-PLUS: An essay by critic Aisha Harris