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Buck and the Preacher - The Criterion Collection
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Blu-ray
A$64.99
With his rousingly entertaining directorial debut, SIDNEY POITIER (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner) 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 marvellously mischievous HARRY BELAFONTE (Carmen Jones) 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 Edition Features:
- New 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 actor-director Sidney Poitier and actor-producer 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
- THE CRITERION COLLECTION
- 103 mins approx
- PG
- 1972
- 1
- B
- CRITERION COLLECTION
Buck and the Preacher - The Criterion Collection
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Blu-ray
A$64.99
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With his rousingly entertaining directorial debut, SIDNEY POITIER (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner) 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 marvellously mischievous HARRY BELAFONTE (Carmen Jones) 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 Edition Features:
- New 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 actor-director Sidney Poitier and actor-producer 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
- THE CRITERION COLLECTION
- 103 mins approx
- PG
- 1972
- 1
- B
- CRITERION COLLECTION
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