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Buck and the Preacher
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$16.99

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Format Blu-ray
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Label Criterion

Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte join forces in Poitier’s directorial debut, a landmark that reclaims the western in the name of Black liberation

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 revision-ist landmark, Buck and the Preacher subverts Hollywood conventions at every turn and reclaims the western genre in the name of Black liberation.

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