Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, Ruby Dee

Sidney Poitier made his directing debut with this 1972 action comedy with an edge to it. Made at the height of the Black Power movement in America, the film has an unmistakable militancy in its story ...( read more  read more... )of a wagon-train guide and a con man who team up to throw a posse of white nightriders off the trail of escaped slaves. Poitier has never been a distinctive filmmaker, and Buck and the Preacher certainly doesn't indicate any early signs of raw talent that later went undeveloped. But the film's energy and sense of fun, hand in hand with the suggestively political zing, make it watchable. --Tom Keogh

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PG, 102 min.

Directed by: Joseph Sargent, Sidney Poitier

Release Date: January 1, 1972

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DVD Release Date: February 29, 2000

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  • August 31, 2009
    Buck and the preacher is a classic fun to watch with a hint of comedy and also a hint of slickery. All for the greater good of helping others. all the character had a cool damenor about them. Buck, the hunters and the Indians. I love Harry Bellafonte he was trying to get in where...( read more) he could fit in. LOL. I give it five stars
  • July 18, 2008
    Entertainment done right
  • December 29, 2007
    Have'nt seen this in a long time
    Classic
  • November 20, 2007
    my dad took the whole family to see it. it's been a tradition to watch it together ever since. love black cowboys.
  • August 21, 2007
    i would like to see this one..
  • June 21, 2007
    Sounds all sorts of no. >_>"
  • May 15, 2007
    can be seen on may 15,2007 on ione good movie
  • February 6, 2007
    when we needed to see it.. this was done in good taste and I enjoyed it..

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