Bibliograph

Buck and the preacher, Columbia Pictures presents an E&R/BEI production ; story by Ernest Kinoy and Drake Walker ; screenplay by Ernest Kinoy ; directed by Sidney Poitier

Type

Label

Buck and the preacher, Columbia Pictures presents an E&R/BEI production ; story by Ernest Kinoy and Drake Walker ; screenplay by Ernest Kinoy ; directed by Sidney Poitier

Language

eng

Characteristic

videorecording

Main title

Buck and the preacher

Oclc number

11333224299

Responsibility statement

Columbia Pictures presents an E&R/BEI production ; story by Ernest Kinoy and Drake Walker ; screenplay by Ernest Kinoy ; directed by Sidney Poitier

Runtime

103

Series statement

The Criterion collection, 1140

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 to take on the white bounty hunters threatening a westward-bound caravan of recently freed enslaved people. A superbly crafted revisionist landmark

Technique

live action

Contributor