Buck and the preacher
(Blu Ray) 

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Published
New York, NY : Criterion Collection, [2022].
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. 
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San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Blu Ray - Adult AudiovisualFictionChecked OutApril 2, 2024

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Published
New York, NY : Criterion Collection, [2022].
Format
Blu Ray
Language
English
UPC
00715515275415, 715515275415

Notes

General Note
Originally released as a motion picture in 1972.
General Note
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-producer Harry Belafonte; interview with Poitier and Belafonte from 1972 episodes of Soul! and The Dick Cavett show; new interview with Gina Belafonte, daughter of Harry Belafonte.
Participants/Performers
Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, Ruby Dee, Cameron Mitchell, Denny Miller.
Description
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.
Target Audience
MPAA rating: PG.

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