Buck and the Preacher (#1140)

With his rousingly entertaining directorial debut, Sidney Poitier, alongside actor-producer Harry Belafonte, 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 Powerera political fury, Poitier and a marvelously mischievous 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 people recently emancipated from slavery. A superbly crafted revisionist landmark,Buck and the Preachersubverts 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